Ich weiss ja, dass Quito recht hoch und mitten in den Bergen liegt und deshalb hier immer Fruehling sein soll. Aber wer bitte hat denn gesagt, dass gleich immer April sein muss? Jeden Tag habe ich mindesten einmal kalt, einmal heiss und einmal Regen. Egal was ich am Morgen anziehe. Und der Himmel kann innert Minuten von strahlendblau zum schwarz...

Hello hello. here it is the end of our first full day in quito. again, i apologize that this keyboard is weird and so if my writing is a little disjunct, thats why. since dad fell asleep at 7 last night, he was up bright and early this morning. we had an american breakfast with fresh juice and then took off to the equator line, which was a lot o...

After intense Spanish classes today, Rob and I decided to make another trip down to the old town, especially since it's Sunday, so most roads there would be closed to cars. We had fun wandering around a little and stumbled upon a seemingly simple facade of something called 'Theatro Bolivar', or 'Bolivar Theatre'. We stepped in and were soon met ...

Very quick entry today as we didnīt really do much. We were up nice and early, so I got the blog 100% up to date with photos (I canīt insert them for some reason, so youīll have to use the slideshows for the moment), tried unsuccessfully to burn the Galapagos photos onto a DVD, while Katie packed and had breakfast. By about 11am we were both rea...

After our long flight from the UK to Miami (Abbe and Dianne note that it takes aaaaagees to get through customs here and most of the people working on the passport desks are suicidal!?!) we then flew on to Quito. We didn't see much to be honest, we landed at 10pm and got a taxi straight to our hostel the Secret Garden, slept and got a taxi back ...

Monday 5th Nov We were up before the crack of dawn at 3.45am for our early taxi to the airport. The taxi was of the French design and rattled so badly to the airport that I was sure that he had taken the cars suspension out to raise some cash to buy his lunch and replaced the suspension with a pack of Jaffa Cakes. The jolly taxi man, after takin...

Marvellous. So, after four days, I'm slowly starting to acclimatise to being 2800m above sea level. Just. Although I can't move far without collapsing, out of breath. Oh well. Friday and Saturday I wandered around the Old Town, pointing at churches (there are somewhere in the region of 75 of them in Quito, so I was told - though I can't verify t...

1st of November 2006: the day we left Europe and set off on our adventure, after a week of rest and final preparations in Andorra. As our plane took off from Madrid, we looked down on the Spanish plains in silence - a sense of relief overcoming us as we both realised that the crazy race to get our lives wrapped up in Geneva was over, that we rea...

Although Monday was a bit rocky, overall my second week in Quito was much better than my first. I feel like I am finally in some sort of a groove. I know my way around town (or at least as much as I need to), 5 hours of class is much more manageable than 7 and equally effective, I am comfortable taking public transportation, I can communicate we...

Another early start on Sunday morning for the taxi to the airport - only to get there and have to wait 40 minutes for the check in to open...things not improving. After a short flight to Madrid (delayed by an hour) we eventually got to the gate for the next flight (with 5 mins to spare). Somehow we were upgraded to business class at the gate...r...