Yesterday I crossed almost all of Sweden. So to speak, or at least the population of Sweden, if you count in numbers. Let me explain. Lima has around 8 miljon inhabitants, which is (almost) the same population as all of Sweden. And yesterday I left Lima to go south, starting off from the north. So I figuere i must have passed 8,000,000 persons. Well, it made sense while I sitting in the bus watching all the people we passed by.

I had decided to go to Pisco, a small coastal village with a neraby nature reserve where there lives flamingos, sea lions and penguins. But... we had passed so many villages on the way that I didn´t get that I had to get off at one of them. So I ended up in Ica (not the grocery store in Sweden). Ica´s nice with a lot of cultural heritage and a good museum with pre-inca findings. In the morning I called one of my collegues who lives in Pisco and said I had considered coming for a visit. And she said: COME COME! So I got on the bus again, paid 1 dollar and travelled two hours and still got here in time for the morning press-conference. Afterwards we met with the Mayor and he invited us for a... pisco (peruvian brandy... a very very very strong sort!).

In the evening we had another meeting with the air quality team of professionals who conveniently enough had to make a decision on what to have as the official statement on the health effects on the pollution in the area. It was a heated discussion which I gladly participated in. Afterwards we shared some good laughs and I realized that I´m turning peruvian.

Well, let´s see if I´ll manage to stay away from the rest of the meetings as I´m not officially working now and I probably won´t get paid for days like today. Then again, I can´t think of a better way to get to know a country than to engage in their everyday life (even if my collegues are better off than the vast mayority of peruvians... but don´t my collegues and most of my friends at home also belong to somewhat of an upper class. COME ON! Admit it!). Besides, I think it´s time well invested because I am networking like crazy and getting quite good at my profession.

Well, bye for now. Will return later to better up the english, add new photos and add comments to all the photos here.