West Indies cooking
Day 277-278 – Port of Spain, Trinidad The next two days were less eventful. I spent some time in the pool (with the dog ecstatic to designate me her play mate), ate new dishes, and even went to the movies. I have now tried roti, which has nothing to do with roasted meat (sorry, French…
Children’s Carnival and Panorama
Day 276 – Port of Spain, Trinidad Saturday was the day for the children’s Carnival, and at night Panorama: the Steelband contest’s finals. Both events -and many other- happen on the Savannah, officially Queen’s Park Savannah, but everybody shortens it to the Savannah. (Streets around the park are one way, but for the Carnival, they…
Trinidad
Day 275 – Port of Spain, Trinidad I don’t think that I have ever waited that long to leave an airport before. Because of Carnival, probably, many people were arriving at the same time… for a limited number of immigration counters. And since I had left the aircraft with the last people -I was in…
Barbados
Day 273-274 – Dover Beach, Barbados I’ll condense both days as I didn’t do much. I caught up on quite some sleep. I went the first day to the beach, which was a 5-min walk away. The second day, I went to Bridgetown explore the old town. I took a shared mini-van, 2 dollars (1…
A few flights later
Day 272 – Quito, Ecuador; Fort Lauderdale, USA; Dover Beach, Barbados I don’t remember the last time I visited three countries in a day. Passed through or flew over, sure, but actually stopped in, I’m not sure. Anyway. When I presented myself early at the boarding gate, I was taken aside for a control of…
Running after a phone
Day 271 – Quito, Ecuador How I ran around today. Going to the post office to send things back to France -“Without a receipt/invoice you cannot send more than three of each kind”-, which includes finding a box and buying tape. Dropping laundry because, laundry day, and this time I had miscalculated, so I wore…
Quilotoa Lake day tour
Day 270 – Quito, Ecuador That was my second organized tour, with the same company, and guess what? I had the same guide. So strangely enough, I knew all about the introduction part about the country and the highway. Yeah! \o/ We stopped first in a fresh-food market, where I loaded up on fresh produces.…
Otavalo market day tour
Day 269 – Quito, Ecuador (I’m late in my writings, so I’ll be quick for the next days’ accounts.) For this day tour, I had a meeting point a few minutes’ walk away from my hostel at the too-early hour of 7. Our guide, Patricio, talked about the country, the highway we were following -apparently…
National Museum of Ecuador
Day 268 – Quito, Ecuador I planned some day tours with my hostel, so the only days left to visit the National Museum -and its Pre-Columbian art- was either today or next Monday… and the museum closes on Mondays. Of course there was an artisan market on the way, so I made an unscheduled stop…
City Museum and Monastery of San Francisco
Day 267 – Quito, Ecuador I started the day with a visit of the City Museum. Not because I wanted to see the dioramas without any English translation, but because it is in a former hospital and I wanted to see the building. I did learn a bit about the history of Quito, but not…