A day in life of the traveller abroad!

This is a recount of an average day for Nicola and I... which just happens to be today

Wake up around 9am, it depends on if we get inlcuded breakfast and when they serve to, Los Andes B&B obviously does and they serve until 9:30 am. We gingerly eat breakfast watch CNN or BBC, preferably BBC (British news just sounds better), but today is CNN because Sheldon the American staying here beat us to the TV. Since Nicola´s bummy has been "active" she just had dry bread and watered down orange juice while I enjoyed both coffees and bread with a lot of marmalade and butter. No shower this morning as we have an early morning departure tomorrow for the Colca Canyon, but tonight we will take advantage of our amazingly hot and hard pressured shower, extremely rare down here, one last time.
Our first bit of business is to take a cab to "la terrapuerta", the bus terminal here in Arequipa, and buy two tickets to Cusco. Unfortunately for us we could not get "Cama" class for this leg, but it is a short bus ride (8 hours) so it won´t be too bad! Take a cab back into the Plaza de Armas in the Centro, we found what looks to be great internet and with just my luck I have forgot my USB cable so no photos again!!! Nicola calls her Mom on Skype while I read up on sports and write about junk with my buds on Facebook. The Jays are looking great, which makes sense since I´m out of the country, hopefully they will keep it together for a solid place and a wildcard??? As I usually hungry at all times of day I now must convince Nicola that it is a good time to eat at the Turkish place that we found the other night and have Doner Kebabs and salad again. I didn´t know the Turks conquered S.A., but the food is still amazing!
Now it´s time for some sightseeing so we head for a plaza we saw on the map that is supposed to be near the convent "Santa Catalina". We walk by a cart that is frying fresh Churros and again my hunger wins the battle. They cost us only 1.5 soles, which is approx. $.50, so it is a done deal! We go to the convent only to reveal that it´s closed from noon to 3pm. We decide to hit up the SuperMercado instead and buy some fruit and soup for dinner and then head back to Hostel to read on their terrace that overlooks the 4 visible volcano´s. We get up to the terrace only to be joined by this charming couple from Australia, he was White and she was Asian... imagine that? They ended up being so nice we just talked the afternoon away till we realized that we needed to run if we were to make it to the convent. We walked to the convent only to discover this time that we were in the wrong place in the morning and the real place did not close mid-day, but it was closing in half an hour and would not be long enough to explore it all since it covered 4 city blocks. We´ll have to see it next time we´re in Peru! That wicked internet seems like a good idea to write a blog and upload some photos.
Now tonight we will eat soup, buns, watermelon and pineapple and we have a 1/2 bottle of vino de tinto to look forward to as well. We will then close off the evening with some amazing TV probably a couple episodes of "2 1/2 Men" followed by either "Scrubs" or a Nicola favourite... "Friends". Approx. bedtime tonight 10pm with a wake up tomorrow at 6am so we can eat breakfast and get on our tour.

I would like to thank Anthony Bourdain and his book Kitchen Confidential, which I am currently blazing through, for the inspiration for this blog.

~Andrew