We arrived at Lima airport in good time with a fistful of shrapnel.
Budgeting for the airport is difficult.
Too little local currency and you have to survive check-in without enough money for a cup of coffee. Too much and you are destined to take home yet another deposit for the useless foreign currency jar that sits on everyone´s shelf. And a brooding sense of injustice.
We wandered to Starbucks, more out of force of habit that anything else.
"Two Lattes and a Chocolate Brownie" I asked the sullen girl at the counter.
She tapped the computer till.
"Twenty-nine Soles" she replied, without looking up.
It was a bit steep for coffee and cake, but after all this was the airport and prices here bear no relation to the real world. I fished around in my wallet and handed over the cash.
"No. twenty-nine dollars" she fired back at me with just a little more bile than I usually like with my coffee.
I don´t usually like to sacrifice my principles but today I was was willing to make an exception.
"Two dollars and forty-five cents" said the girl at McDonalds.
With the nicest smile I can recall.
Budgeting for the airport is difficult.
Too little local currency and you have to survive check-in without enough money for a cup of coffee. Too much and you are destined to take home yet another deposit for the useless foreign currency jar that sits on everyone´s shelf. And a brooding sense of injustice.
We wandered to Starbucks, more out of force of habit that anything else.
"Two Lattes and a Chocolate Brownie" I asked the sullen girl at the counter.
She tapped the computer till.
"Twenty-nine Soles" she replied, without looking up.
It was a bit steep for coffee and cake, but after all this was the airport and prices here bear no relation to the real world. I fished around in my wallet and handed over the cash.
"No. twenty-nine dollars" she fired back at me with just a little more bile than I usually like with my coffee.
I don´t usually like to sacrifice my principles but today I was was willing to make an exception.
"Two dollars and forty-five cents" said the girl at McDonalds.
With the nicest smile I can recall.
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