We’re not shirking the difficult journeys – this one’s an overnight bus journey from Otavalo. South – down the spine of the country to Cuenca in the southern highlands. Despite the bus arriving in Otavalo half an hour late, the journey isn’t as bad as I’d imagined. Jemima & Gabriel fall asleep quickly and sleepContinue reading “Cuenca – Spanish, history, politics & horse riding”
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Ecuador 5 – A visit to the doctor
An art exhibition at the modern art museum in Cuenca Cuenca still – A visit to the doctor Methinks I have done something to my shoulder – this pain isn’t going way and I now can’t lift my left arm in any direction and it’s stopping me from doing all sorts of things and itContinue reading “Ecuador 5 – A visit to the doctor”
Otavalo – slowing down the pace
Our beautiful home in Otavalo, from the vegetable garden. Otavalo is only a couple of hours north of Quito by bus, so a pretty straightforward journey. We’re dropped off next to a main road on a roundabout with no pavement, which seems a little strange! But we manage to get a taxi to take us andContinue reading “Otavalo – slowing down the pace”
Ecuador 4 – Otavalan Idyll
Las Palmeras …….this lovely bit of class in rural paradise in Pichincha I am sorry to say goodbye to Otavalo. We have so enjoyed staying put, living in a home, and establishing a bit of a routine. We are enjoying exploring local ingredients, in the local Indian market. There seems to be such an abundanceContinue reading “Ecuador 4 – Otavalan Idyll”
Ecuador 3 – Las Palmeras
Adela and all her family come and spend Sunday with us, the children all play inside this tent in the garden We are installed in a heavenly casita on the road leading out of Otavalo, 2hrs from Quito. It’s in the grounds of a beautiful hacienda, the back drop is rural, beautiful mountains, volcanoes,and smallContinue reading “Ecuador 3 – Las Palmeras”
Ecuador 2 – El Reunion
Adela and me or Chulita as she calls me When mum and dad lived here, They hired a local Ecuadorian Indian girl, who at 17, came to look after me when I was born to help mum with her three children. Then along came Marcus and a move to Argentina and Adela decided to comeContinue reading “Ecuador 2 – El Reunion”
Ecuador – Cuenca – Boring Homework
When we went to Cuenca we have been having a lot of fun. The only thing that was not fun was the night bus that was not fun. When we got there, we were very tired, because we did not get a good nights sleep because we were on a bus not a bed. OurContinue reading “Ecuador – Cuenca – Boring Homework”
Ecuador – Otavalo – awesome birds
When we went to the condor park there were lots of birds of prey. There was a bird with an orange collar, it was beautiful. I got to hold an American kestrel – I got excited. They did not fly the condor because it would be too dangerous. But we did get to see itContinue reading “Ecuador – Otavalo – awesome birds”
Hola Ecuador!
The journey from Auckland to Ecuador is by far the longest to date. The first leg, from Auckland to Santiago, takes almost 12 hours. We have six hours on the ground and so head to an excellent interactive museum to kill the time. Then it’s back to the airport for the nearly 6 hour flightContinue reading “Hola Ecuador!”
Ecuador – Otavalo – one little piggy went to the market followed by three little children
I kind of started on my tooth blog where my tooth got pulled out. It was on that day when we moved to Otavalo, it was 2 hours on a bus. We got to our hotel when Omero the puppy came rushing up to us and literally tipped Gabriel over and started licking him fromContinue reading “Ecuador – Otavalo – one little piggy went to the market followed by three little children”
Five Go Round The World 