What a special feeling to wake up and feel the delicious temperatures of the room! The breakfast restaurant is in a open air terrace, with a partial roof, to hide from the sun or rain, and it feels like holiday ;-)
I felt so lazy and happy to feel the sun warming my back! I decided to hand wash my woollen sweaters, and make them dry in the sun (as a good Belgian, if there is sun, take your chance, you never know how the weather will be tomorrow) while I was just sitting and enjoying this beautiful blue sky, in T-shirt and sandals!
I was told that Arequipa was founded by the Spanish, because while an army was walking they arrived here and did not want to leave anymore . That was a long time ago. In the meanwhile, many beautiful buildings, mostly churches, monasteries and convents. In this white porous volcanic stone, “sillar”, which gave to Arequipa the name of “white city”.
I stayed a week. A lazy week. I definitively know I would not like to live in places where people do not heat, like… most parts in this world I am realising ;-) If it is sunny enough no problem, but once you are high in the mountains, summer or winter, sun or not, once it is evening it is COLD. 
The Plaza de Armas (yes, like in Cusco and Puno) is very animated, with palm trees, the cathedral along one side, a fountain and lots of pigeons. You can buy some seeds and the children love to feed the pigeons. The other three sides of the plaza have arcades, under which, many restaurants and tourist information - souvenir shops, like in Cusco. But once you take a side street, you just follow old walls and see lovely facades, and discover a nice old city.
I visited the “monasterio of Santa Catalina”, such a lovely place! It was a very sunny day, and I spent it there, walking in the little street of this place that for almost 400 years was completely cut off of the external world, with only those revolving “doors" in wood to pass things without seeing the person at the other side . There are still nuns, but now they live in a part of the monastery that was completely modernised, and not to be visited. The old monastery is open to the public, and it was wonderfully restored. The painting of some walls or columns in blue or ochre was a great idea! You walk along the old narrow streets, visit nun’s cells that look more like little apartments, and later I would read that the Bishop of that time became a little angry and imposed a new rule: each nun can have at most one servant. I think the nuns here had a rather comfortable life.
The other place I loved is the Claustros de la Compaña, two inner courts surrounded by arcades, so, cloisters, belonging to a former Jesuite Monastery. There is there a little chapel where the walls are just covered with paintings of flowers, birds and trees, you feel like in a magic forest! One of the cloisters has a stair to the second level, where one can sit and in the afternoon drink a coffee. My favourite place to go sit and relax!
So different from the Inca Cusco and very cold Puno!