 | 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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 | A slight copy from a well known networking site ...
2008-04-15, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | I thought the following might give you an idea of life in Quito or Latin America in General - I have cut and paste it from a Facebook group called ... "You know you've lived in Quito when ...", if the... |
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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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| I'm getting too good at this photography lark ..
2008-04-02, Quito, Ecuador. By: cbr600f | | ..... and my 2nd appearance on "photo of the day" on the home page !! I have to admit, when I took this one back on the San Blas islands I was hoping they would spot it !
Just spent the afternoon w... |
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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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 | 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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 | failing on the neck of the moon
2007-10-19, quito, Ecuador. By: vorn | | into ecuador-my last new country for the year, as all the other countries i am going to this year i have already been.
spent the first couple of days in quito checking out the old town with neil an... |
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 | We Hold On
2007-09-09, Quito, Ecuador. By: supernova | | Keep going on till dawn
How many times must another line be drawn
We could be down and gone
But we hold on
The diarrhea began within 24 hours of my arrival.
You see, I had to travel unexpecte... |
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 | General Update (sorry havent written for AGES)
2007-03-29, Quito, Ecuador. By: helanus | | Am in Quito doin last bits of visa. Took only an hr this mornin to wait so were out by 10. Just hav to go bak on Fri to collect it then on Mon hav to do some stuff but will go bak to Tena for weekend.... |
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 | Quito, the end of the road
2001-07-15, Quito, Ecuador. By: Orion777 | | Quito was, for us, the end of a great trip and plenty of adventures. It was exhaustion as well: after miles and miles, hours and hours in creaky buses leaving at 5 am and arriving at 2am and other thi... |
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 | My Visit to Ecuador
2004-03-23, Quito, Ecuador. By: markos | | After flying over Mexico and Central America from Houston I arrived in Quito's Mariscal Sucre airport just before 2300 local time. Customs was a breeze as was obtaining a city map and booking a taxi. ... |
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| always coming back to quito...
2007-02-26, quito, Ecuador. By: quierodedo | | BUT FIRST
body boarding is awesome!! it was thom's idea to rent body boards on saturday, our last beach day. and it was soo fun. thom, new friend tommy, and i rented boards for 4 hours, from like ... |
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| back in quito.
2007-02-09, quito, Ecuador. By: quierodedo | | i haven´t updated in a bit. i wasn´t quite sure how to tell everyone i got robbed...and maybe doing it on this journal would be a little tacky. so many people know, for those of you who don´t: yeah... |
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 | Back to school....
2007-02-03, Quito, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | Oh my God. Whose idea was this, Miss Mendham??? You´ve heard the expression "My brain hurts"???? So we had our first 4 hours out of 20 of Spanish lessons. We had a young University student teach us an... |
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 | Food at last
2007-02-02, Quito, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | After breakfast on the rooftop terrace (included in the price of GBP6.00 per person for a double en-suite!) we had a wander around the Old Town.
Most noticeable was the police presence at every cor... |
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 | Feed me, feed me now!
2007-02-01, Quito, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | So here we are in Quito, Ecuador after a seemingly never-ending flight, made all the worse by a distict lack of food! However, we landed in glorious sunshine instead of the forecasted thunderstorms (i... |
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