Things I've learnt so far

You don't fully appreciate toilets that flush until you don't have them. Going behind a bush is more preferable than a large number of "toilets" I used in Peru and Bolivia.

There are an insane number of football pitches in Peru and Bolivia. Everywhere that has more than a couple of houses seems to have one, even small islands in the middle of Lake Titicaca. With so many pitches you'd think they'd win a few more matches...

Despite climbing several big mountains and going paragliding I still don't like heights.

Nor do I like holding alligator-type things, but mind over matter can do amazing things.

Dynamite is surprisingly easy to buy in Bolivia.

They should probably dynamite a large number of the so-called roads there though, I still haven't recovered from the shaking my stomach took travelling from Potosi to Sucre. On the upside I did learn a good game to play when travelling in a large group, it's called Mafia.

Airport security in Peru and Bolivia is pretty slack. At one airport they pushed my bag through a non-working scanner and in another they didn't even search my stuff because I "was ok"!

I cannot salsa. I am not Peruvian and so I do not have a natural sense of rhythm. I don't think practice will help.

I have no problem spending large quantities of money even when I have no income, after all that's why they invented credit cards.