Hotel Patio Andaluz

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... the night porter ushers us into the lobby, it is as if we have stepped into a Spanish colonial villa, not San Salvatore, but the Patio Andaluz, our home for 10 days. I love our room instantly. It looks out onto the glass roofed patio of the dining ...

... .  Bargain prices and something really neat (and small) to send back to London. Our guide dropped us off at our hotel, Patio Andaluz which is situated in the heart of the Old Historic Centre of Quito.  As we had two hours before all museums shut ...

... the city. Old Town is quite dangerous at night, so we decided to head straight to a restaurant in a very cool hotel called El Patio Andaluz. The hotel is in a 400-year old house that was once owned by Ecuador's first president, Juan Jose Flores. I ...

... to do due to manoeuvring around bomb craters every 5 metres. Never have I been so glad to see the lights of town, our hotel - which bizarrely was totally bedecked in Christmas decorations right down to 2 ft high light up snowmen -  on November 7th - and ...

... told he could fly to Bogota this evening then the flight to Aruba would be the next day, but they wouldn't put him up in a hotel overnight in Bogota! So instead he battled for 10 mins to decide they would finally put him up in a hotel in Panama then fly ...

... in flip flops!). A lot of the buildings here are based on old mansions which were built as a building surrounding a central courtyard. Our hotel is like this, and a place we found for coffee also was set out in the same way. We had a look around ...

... where walking at night is not considered very safe. Both Joanna and our guide book warned against venturing too far away from our hotel and suggested taking taxis wherever possible. Little did they know that we were born and bred in Jhb and it was in ...

... Oh. And those San Fransiscan Monks, they were the best looking men in the whole of Quito. Apparently, it is such a popular career choice there is a waiting list. Dinner in the hotel was rather disappointing cold tapas, oh well you can't win them ...

Today we are flying again! We leave Canaima at 9am and don't arrive at our hotel in Quito until 10.30pm. Three flights, it's going to be a long day. To set the scene, we left our suitcases with an agent in Caracas as we could only take 10kg each on ...

... about 4 today and with the aid of our book and a taxi found Old Town Quito.  We are staying in our most expensive hotel so far, $180 for a suite.  We are in the heart of the historic district and a quick walk around tonight showed that we will ...

... the city by night.  Now before going to Andalucia, I had made a "to-do" list as well, and tasting Gazpacho Andaluz (a cold tomato soup that is an Andalucian specialty) was pretty much the only thing left on it... unfortunately we only had that ...