Returned to Cusco

We took an 8 hour, 'luxury' bus trip back to Cusco today.  We had upper deck front seats with a good view, but we were in full sun, like a glass house.  Shades did not work, seats did not incline, and air conditioning was woeful.  Started at 8:30 am and hit some sort of road protest...hundreds of people had put large rocks on one lane on the one road out of town.  Huge traffic jam.  Once clear of that, we had a flat tire.  Now, being two hours or so late, the driver drove like a maniac and Peter and I, having an upper front seat, saw all the near misses.  Because we were late, the driver did not stop at the lunch place, but drove straight through.  Then we were stopped by police, who came on board and dragged a Peruvian lady off the bus amidst loud protests with braids, hat and skirt flying in all directions.  (She, so the gossip went, was smuggling goods in from Bolivia.) All in all, a very hot, unpleasant trip!  We arrived safely.  I was hungry, Peter felt sick.  We are now back in our comfortable hacienda.  Peter is asleep.  I am catching up on emails and blog.