Wayyyy back in Meridá, Venezuela, I booked a top shelf get away for myself in Manta, on the coast of Ecuador a short fight from Quito. After three months on the road, another two and a half months to go, and with some time up my sleeve, I figured I…
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
oh, high Otavalo
/ 17/05/2013Otavalo is the largest of the Andean markets, taking up the Plaza de Los Ponchos and several more blocks on a Saturday. Even though we weren’t there on Saturday, the plaza still buzzed with markets and shopping was fruitful. I was surprised by a stall vendor who appeared from under…
no thanks, I’m not hungry anymore…
/ 17/05/2013Southward and Ecuador bound we covered a lot of miles, placing us in Ipiales to visit the impressive Las Lajas Sanctuary, built between a bridge and the bottom of a ravine on the site of an 18th century apparition of Virgin Mary. Apparently. Either way, many make the pilgrimage to…
pampering in Popyán
/ 17/05/2013Popyán is a whitewashed town with free coffee at reception, chicken feet in the set menu soup, a fabulous vegetarian restaurant which Fletch and I found after passing on the soup and a salon where I had my first hair cut in several months – the fabulous Carlos from Panama…
can’t catch a break in Cali
/ 17/05/2013Cali is a salsa hub in Colombia. If you get there on a good night. Which we didn’t. Time in this previously rather dangerous, drug-economy city, was largely spent acting as a good luck shopping charm for Stacy as we hit the local bus to Jardin Plaza for ok-large-cities-have-some-advantages, the…