Monday
1st May 2017
Cuenca,
Ecuador.
Collected
by our guide, Wilson, for a city tour. Most shops closed due to bank holiday,
but various festivals going on. Nice picture of the statue of a family helping
children up the slippery pole. If they reached the top, they received the
prizes on the top. Also another lovely
piece of artwork of a family on a cycle ride – near the broken bridge. Visited the Panama hat factory where saw how
the hats were made from the cutting of the reeds, through weaving, pressing and
finishing. Bought a hat which I’m sure I’ll
be able to use in the heat of the UK summer! Walked through a lovely park where
many of the locals were taking advantage of exercise routes and machines, to
see the confluence of two of the four Cuenca rivers. Very pleasant. Finished with a city tour of the cathedral
and squares, admiring the mixture of French and Spanish style architecture.
Lunch at a small family-type restaurant where we had a $5.85 meal of pork in
cornflour steamed in leaves, grilled trout with what appeared to be fried
parsnips and salad and starfruit. Washed down with Chilean dry white wine. Staggered back to our hotel via a kiosk where
jointly purchased a bottle of rum and enormous coke bottle for $13. Rest of
afternoon was spent on Ed and Jude’s balcony overlooking the river and watching
the sunset, demolishing said bottle of rum.
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