Ecuador-Quito II

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It was weird but just seeming them creates a real sense of serenity. Nos decided to take over the camera work after my enthusiasm lead to hundreds of grey dot poking out of the water photographs. Now we have thousands of grey dot photographs... The next day we hired 2 bikes to cycle up to a thermal pool in the forest. I think we hired the 2 worst bikes in Puerto Lopez and I now think I know what it feels like to drop the soap in prison. 4 days later and my backside is still sore. Stumbled upon one of the nicest Italian restaurants I´ve ever been to as well. We then decided to move on to the surfing town of Montanita, which apparently is famous. Its much more commercialized that Puerto Lopez but again not being too big in size. It’s full of surfers and hippies with Bob Marley being banged out from the bars. We donned the surfing gear and headed out for a lesson in which, I’m ashamed to say, Nos surpassed me by a large distance. By the end not only was she standing up but also nearly doing somersaults. I spent 2 hours looking like a beached whale on a bit of driftwood. To be fair Nos was being taught by an adult whereas my 5-year-old tutor spent 2 hours on the verge of drowning. There were 2 veggie restaurants there so again we ate well and then after another trip out into the waves the next morning we started the trip back to Quito. We took a plane from Manta, on the world’s ropiest jet, which nearly caused me heart failure, but we did get to see one of the candidates for the upcoming presidential elections at the airport .'Cynthia' (they are all advertised by their 1st names) was quite a foxy late 20's girl who would certainly get my vote if I had one. Back in Quito we managed to book into a 3rd floor roof space that had death by fire written all over it. To add to its appeal it turned out to be on hooker alley so it was lucky we were tired and had an early night. Have now moved into a luxury place with humming birds whizzing around. Start Spanish school on Monday for what should be (hopefully) a more sedate few weeks.


Quito - Ecuador