So this is our first of hopefully many opportunities to update you on our progress. Thus far, thanks to a well paced ride yesterday, we are on schedule. Thanks to BBC Radio Shropshire, on arriving at Lima, we met with a nice Peruvian English-speaking teacher called Monica. We stayed at her very traditional home with her non-English-speaking parents for two nights. The treatment we recieved from the whole family, including her cousin Andares, and their family friend Jonny, a taxi driver, was much like how I would imagine Ancient Greek Xenia would have been like. One of the beds we were using we later found out was taken from Monica´s room, so what she was sleeping on I don´t know. They were adamant we stayed seated when the table was being cleared and they basically waited
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