back in Arequipa
9:46 pm on the 8th of November, 2005by the 8th of July we were back in Arequipa.
We’d been told the day before, by some of the people on our tour to the Colca Canyon that London had won the bidding for the 2012 Olympics. We used Morven’s mobile as an alarm clock on the 8th, and by chance Morven had a bit of signal and we got a message from her Mum saying that everything wa alright at home and not to worry. It wasn’t until we left our hotel we worked out what she meant. Terror en Londres, muchos muertos. We had to find an internet cafe anyway to book flights so we went to find out just what was going on. This was where we found out about one of the best things about Peru - the cakes. For the price of about 50p we each got a coffee, a huge piece of delicious cake and 20 minutes online. And what good cake it was! Last year was an ice cream year but this year was definitely a cake year.
For the rest of the day we did almost nothing, it was exactly what I wanted - just to sit in the sun on the rooftop terrace and do crosswords, drinking Inka Cola. We got restless though as we were planning to leave the following day so we went in search of some culture. It’s something I probably regret now, but we chose not to go into the hedonistic Monasterio Santa Catalina because it was quite expensive, and we failed to find the Museum for 
Juanita the frozen mummy - they liked their human sacrifices in olden Peru, now they like to bragg about it - until it was closed.
We were going to Puno in the morning so we had another early night, but not before cathing the sunset from the roof of the university which was very peaceful to wander round, before one last lap of the square when I got this photo.
