 | Montecristi travels
2009-10-09, Montecristi, Ecuador. By: roylin | | We visited Montecristi one day to look at the manufacturing of rattan furniture. Montecristi is a small village of about 14,000 inhabitants a few minutes from Manta. It is known for a couple of things... |
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 | Living in Cuenca
2009-10-16, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: roylin | | Cuenca is a large colonial city in Ecuador in the southern Andes Mountains. The population is around 750,000 people. Linda and I flew to Cuenca via Quito on October 16th 2009.
We wanted to investiga... |
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 | Manta-the community of our dreams in Ecuador
2009-09-28, Manta, Ecuador. By: roylin | | Manta is a fairly large city located in Manabi Province on the Pacific Ocean. Manta is an important port city in Ecuador. It has a population of around 350,000. The climate is a dry climate with tempe... |
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 | The Ecuador Coast of Manabi Province
2009-09-25, Manta, Ecuador. By: roylin | | After a bus trip to the Quito Airport and a flight on Icaro Airlines we arrived in Manta on September 25th.
This portion of the Ecuador Coast, less than 200 miles, is a very small segment of the tot... |
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 | Imbabura Province
2009-09-16, Cotacachi, Ecuador. By: roylin | | On the second day in Quito, we were picked up by a bus and taken to Cotacachi for the start of our Spanish language classes. We stayed in the Meson de las Flores inn while in Cotacachi. The Meson de l... |
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 | Flight to Quito
2009-09-14, Quito, Ecuador. By: roylin | | We started our journey to Ecuador at the Asheville, North Carolina airport on September 14, 2009. It was a fairly uneventful flight to Quito via Atlanta on Delta Airlines.
We arrived in Quito around... |
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 | Home on the Strange
2009-03-16, Macas, Ecuador. By: supernova | | HOME ON THE STRANGE
He sleeps with a chain saw
Got eyes like an outlaw
He takes a two smoke walk
He don't like to talk
As soon as he stepped foot on Ecuadorian soil, Supernova was immediat... |
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 | Honestly, it was THIS big ...!!
2008-04-30, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Well, I've been scuba diving .... first time since I got my Open Water PADI back in Almeria, Spain.
The dives were around Cousins Rock, just off the uninhabited island of Isla Santiago. I'd alread... |
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 | Goodbye Quito...
2008-04-28, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Greetings from the Galapagos Islands - 1000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, just hanging around in the Pacific Ocean !
So, the end of my time in Quito (barring one night when I fly back to get my f... |
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 | Wild, caged animals and goodbyes ...
2008-04-24, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | On Tuesday we took the kids from both the north school and the south school to Quito Zoo. Now, I've never agreed with zoos - apart from conservation ones like the fantastic Jersey Zoo - but I had to s... |
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 | Eventually - I got to Mitad del Mundo !!
2008-04-19, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Well, it's only taken me 7 weeks but I eventually got to see the equator line thingy !
So, mum and dad have been and gone but it was absolutely great to see them after nearly 7 months.
We've got... |
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| Still here in Quito ..
2008-04-14, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Just a quick entry as I've had a few emails checking I'm ok after the horrific bus crash here in Ecuador at the weekend. I'm absolutely fine, bit of a subdued atmosphere though as you can imagine. |
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 | A fairly packed week !
2008-04-09, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Hi all, last time I reported (excluding book reviews) I mentioned that the organisation was hosting a party at Bungalow 6. Well that was last Thursday night and what a laugh ! The owners wanted us to ... |
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| My first visit to a tattoo parlour .....
2008-04-01, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | ..... Don't worry, haven't had one done nor do I intend to ! (I've just tried to put the word tattoo into spellcheck on Word then realised of course the spellcheck is Spanish - doh !) This Thursday ev... |
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 | Never walk alone on 10th August ...
2008-03-30, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | ....... The quote from Maria that resulted in hilarity in a taxi ....
Well, what a week, new housemates (Maria and Christina from Norway and Emma from Milton Keynes), people leaving, football games... |
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 | An unexpected holiday ....
2008-03-24, Banos, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Well, I had an unexpected holiday last week (for those of you thinking everything I'm doing is a holiday, it isn't ... it's an experience !!). We only worked Monday and then had the rest of the week o... |
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 | End of week 2
2008-03-14, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | My word, I think I've just seen a patch of blue sky so this will have to be a short entry !
So, we seem to have had some success insisting on rules of behaviour with the kids, they've been really w... |
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| Rain, altitude, socks and dvds !
2008-03-11, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Hello all, I haven't been mugged by the way, the reason for no photos is that I haven't got any decent ones to put on at the moment, the weather makes everything look drab and dreary. Next time I repo... |
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| My first week in Quito
2008-03-07, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Well, I think I've got a bit used to the altitude now but still can't get used to how cold it is at night here ! Luckily though the place I am staying in has a fireplace so I've been practising my fir... |
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| Oh my god ...... it's so cold !!
2008-03-03, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | Greetings from South America ! Just a short entry to say I'm here in Quito safe and sound and freezing my bits off ! I'm sure all my friends back home will be pleased to hear that after all my paradis... |
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 | nutmegs and cockfighting
2007-10-29, guayaquil, Ecuador. By: vorn | | went arse over on the remains of some fruit i think, on the way to the truck so that wasnt a good start. richard-one of our rugby watching drinking partners thought he would come too and found it very... |
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