This morning was the Second Annual Expat Day, in which the city of Cuenca holds a small festival (seems there is a festival every week here) for expats. The idea is to have expats meet local businesses, be welcomed to the city, etc. Unfortunately, whoever set it up is a moron… 🙁 Once the music […]
Healing & Ballerinas
After a lazy morning, we went into town for a $2.50 Almuerzos at Grecia, which consisted of vegetable soup, rice, fried banana, chicken and noodles. Evelyn liked it, though I found it a bit dry for my taste. After lunch, we went to the Rotary Centro Commercial market. Every Tuesday and Friday, healers come to […]
Churches and Jazz Society
Evelyn has drawing art classes on Thursday mornings, so I walked the 3 blocks to take in the week’s laundry. $3.58 for same-day wash & fold for all I can carry is such a deal that I don’t really want a washer/dryer in Cuenca! I decided to take a long route back home, exploring a […]
Tiestro & A Farewell Dinner
Today was pretty dreary weather all day, lightly raining most of the day, and pouring at times. I mostly stayed indoors and did some software development for LeapFrog. In the evening, we went with our neighbors, William and Anne (click for their blog),to Tiestro’s for dinner. They are leaving tomorrow, heading to Panama for a […]
Random Walk Through Cuenca #2
We spent a quiet day mostly at home today. I caught up on some blog posts, did some Photoshop work on images I shot of The Jazz Society last Friday, went out to a new Spanish restaurant for some excellent paella, then ended with watching the new 2012 version of Total Recall (a surprisingly good […]
Skyfall and Mercado el Arenal
Last things first. We ended the day by watching SkyFall (the latest James Bond movie) at the local theater. We had a choice of watching it in Spanish or in English with Spanish subtitles. We chose the later. As the movie started, I whispered to Evelyn that it was horizontally squashed. It looked like the […]
Market plus Jazz Society
This morning we went out looking for a new adventure… in getting a haircut. See the separate blog entry from earlier today on that excitement. After my hair fit on my head again, we went looking for another almuerzos restaurant (it seems we could go to a new one every day and not run out […]
Haircut!
Evelyn has been after me for the last few years to let my hair grow longer. I decided this past summer to hold off on another haircut for a long time to see how it looked. As we approached this trip to Cuenca, I told Evelyn that I really needed a haircut. She talked me […]
Printer Repairs and Power Outages
The HP Pro 8000 printer I bought last week hasn’t been working too well, so today I boxed it up and took it back to the HP store. I also put my Mac laptop in my backpack, just in case it was needed, hailed a cab and was off to Mall de Rio yet again. […]
Fooled Again!
We have heard several Cuencanans tell us that the weather here is unpredictable. We are starting to sing that same tune… We left the apartment for lunch around 11:30 this morning. The sky was clear and sunny, with some clouds far on the horizon. We figured it wouldn’t rain for several hours, so no need […]