Alliance Francaise is an international group that promotes French culture and language. Their Cuenca branch put on a massive music festival the last two days. There was very little tie-in to anything French, but there was music for everyone — jazz (our favorite), rock, metal, rap, electronic (actually a DJ when we went by that […]
Setenario Celebration (aka Feast of Corpus Christi)
Corpus Christi is a major Christian holiday in Ecuador. The celebration starts when the local Bishop leads a procession through downtown to the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception (aka “New Cathedral”) Following the Corpus Christi procession, the celebration of Setenario begins, as family businesses begin bullding castles. Castles always bring out large crowds to watch — […]
[Recipe] Locra Papa
“Locra” means “thick soup”, so one should never say “Locra Papa Soup.” Rather, it is simply “Locra Papa — the best soup you’ve ever tasted!” ☺ On May 23, I published a blog entry talking about a cooking class I took at La Warmi for locra papa. I promised I would post the recipe once […]
Museum Walk
While in California for Kerry’s graduation (see prior blog post), a couple of friends from Oregon came down to visit. Together, we went to two museums, along with a tour of the Santa Cruz wineries. The first museum we visited was the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (Wikipedia and Yelp both have more info). […]
School’s Out!
Kerry Jones, our favorite niece (OK, our only niece, but still our favorite!) graduated high school today. After this week, she is officially a college student, attending University of California at Santa Barbara. She will be majoring in chemistry in the College of Creative Studies. With fewer than 350 students, this is a very elite […]
Mr MaGoo
Mauri MaGoo is a polished professional magician here in Cuenca. We first saw him last October in a show with four other local magicians. Tonight’s show was advertised as being just him, but there were actually several others, plus a ventriloquist as Emcee. Unfortunately, the show involved a lot of very fast Spanish, very […]