Arequipa, the city I've spent the longest in on my whole trip, the final wild rover, how can I sum up my time here...

6 weeks of working behind the bar, most fun job I've ever had!

4 go karting sessions, each one becoming progressively more dangerous than the last, people being forced off track and crashing into each other, not that the wild rover staff are in any way competitive!

6 different fancy dress costumes: elf (half way to christmas), hippie (60's), hula girl (hawaiian), man (drag), batgirl (superheroes and supervillains), playboy bunny (P for Peru independence day). Hula girl being possibly the most effort I've ever made in fancy dress, when me and Mariana actually carved out (of polystyrene balls) and painted our own coconut bras, and made hula skirts out of green ribbon! Unfortunately the pieces of ribbon that broke off throughout the night left the skirt looking rather scarce by the end! (I did not go out dressed like that!)

pairs 3, 3 and a half and 4 of flip flops. 3 and a half because I broke one of pair 2, so found pair 3 in lost property, then broke one of pair 3 but the opposite to foot to one I broke in pair 2, then wore an odd pair for about a week, then broke one of those as well and ended up buying pair 4! (Note, this includes one night when I broke a flip flop during work and went out to the club wearing only one flip flop, and one night when I broke one in a club and had to be carried to the taxi! Also note that people don't seem to think its strange in Arequipa that I was walking arond in completely odd flip flops!)

Uncountable games of beer or drinking jenga, where either the loser bought shots for everyone else who played (drinking jenga), or everytime someone successfully placed a brick everyone else had to do a shot of beer and the loser downed the rest of their pint (beer jenga). Also the newly introduced dice game, where all participants roll two dice, and whoever rolls the lowest number buys the shots for everyone else! I feel the staff may have lost out a lot on this one!

2 sporting events, the european championships and the olympics!

White water rafting with Jack and Rob for free when we'd all been out til 5 the night before and were still drunk! Hilarious and fun, and Rob almost fell out of the boat twice!

2 beer pong tournaments won and two in the final, turns out you don't have to be able to throw or catch to be good at this as I'm s***e at both!

A greater love of karaoke than even I thought I had. Standing on the bar alone and singing to the whole bar, sure, why not?

7 bar staff who came and/or went while I was there: Jack, the Irish bar manager who was training Rob, the new bar manager, Hiro, the hilarious Japanese guy, Thibault, the cheeky Frenchman, Mike, 'I shouldn't say what I think so much or try to fight people all the time' the American, and Danny and Lucy the troublesome lacrossers! ALL of whom were great friends and I loved working with, and of course the lovely reception girls, Mariana, Talia, Sandra, Rose and Ambato!

1 new illness: kidney infection.

Many guests who I'd met before and it was great to see again, and many great guests who have become my friends!

And of course how could I not mention the wheel? A wooden roulette wheel which you spin and then HAVE to do what it lands on. options included: down your drink, take your top off on the bar, kiss a member of staff, stuntman (snort a line of salt, do a shot of tequila and squeeze a lime in your eye), and ice down your pants, amongst others. Of course there were good ones as well, like free shot, and win a free nights accomodation, but that wasn't relevant for staff as we already had free accomodation. Highly entertaining to watch other people spin, sometimes not so much to spin yourself! Oh and staff had to spin!

And I'd just like to add that I did actually do something cultural while I was in Arequipa, I went to see the ice mummy in a museum of a girl who was sacrificed by the Incas on the top of a volcano near the town and her body was frozen in the ice and mummified, then found by explorers hundreds of years later. Apparently this sort of thing happened a lot as there were about 3 other mummified bodies found in other places on the same volcano!

So.... good times, great parties, beautiful weather, city and people, Arequipa I'll be back!