Ok so Lima DOES really suck. We got up this morning and flew from Cusco to Lima and we were all really dedicated to giving this s***hole city another go. We got a cab into the city with high expectations that this time it would be different. This time Lima would embrace us and we would revel in its joy. This time we would love Lima and tell strangers in bars about how great it is and how friendly the people are...... How could I be so wrong? This place sucks more than a hooker on overtime. We got a cab into the city (not so bad) We had some lunch (service was crap but the food was OK) Then we thought it might be fun to do a cultural thing in the 8 hours we were trying to waste. We consulted the lonely planet (and taking some advice from a couple of yanks we were talking to in a bar in Cusco the night before) we decided to go to the inquisition museum. It was free, they had toilets and an English guide. How bad could it be? Well....... The building that the museum is in is not ACTUALLY the original building as it fell down in an earthquake. The guide spent most of the time explaining about the various forms of tourture that they used in Peru. Sounds kinda interesting in a sick kinda way? Somehow the guide managed to make it sound so clinical and devoid of human context that you could be forgiven for thinking that it was just the wax people that were tortured. We came away knowing nothing about the inquisition except for the fact that the building fell down and they used to do it in the main square in Lima. Even though the purpose to today is to waste time...I want that hour of my life back. So, given the options of hanging out in our favourite smog filled, street vendor infested (you never know when you might need a metal ruler while stopped at the lights) city, we opted for the sanatised haven of the airport. This decision took into account the fact that the airport is being renovated (part of the ongoing and all pervasive Peruvian job creation program) and I currently have a jack hammer going hell for leather under my feet. So. Twice we challenged Lima. Twice Lima has driven us to hide in a sanatised haven of western nothingness. Intrepid Three - Nil Lima - Two.