Alberto Soriano has been Evelyn’s painting instructor since we arrived in Ecuador. He is a well known painter, originally from Peru, who has exhibited throughout the world. Last month he and his wife were featured in an article in the local English language magazine, Zero Latitude (click here to read the article). He opened a […]
Argentina Summary
Street murals found during our Argentina trip We are now back home in Cuenca, Ecuador after traveling through Northern Argentina for the past month. The last six blog entries have covered our time in Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Salta, Iguazu Falls, and finally the Estancia Don Joaquin. I will close out the entries on this trip […]
Ambato Prepares for Carnaval Parade
We spent today exploring Ambato, seeing the city prepare for the big parades of the next two days. We started up by having a taxi take us to “that big Ecuador flag up on the hill.” We discovered that it is the “parque de la familia” and is an educational park intended to attract family, […]
Carnaval Ambato
Flambé dinner our first night in Ambato It took us 12 hours of driving yesterday to end up at Black Sheep Inn — an isolated vegetarian eco-lodge that had gotten rave reviews. Suffice it to say that our reviews were not as high, and that we left early to arrive in Ambato today… We have […]
Murals On Our First Anniversary
Murals on walls near our home in Cuenca, Ecuador One year ago today, in 2013, we received our Ecuadorian resident visa and became officially able to stay in Ecuador as long as we wish, albeit with certain travel restrictions. I was thinking what I should write on this auspicious date. I finally decided I would […]
Dante’s Inferno Is Shrinking
Masks go on sale a few days before New Year’s Eve and are popular with old and young alike New Year’s Eve in Cuenca, Ecuador is like no other we have experienced around the world. This is our third NYE in Cuenca, and it seems to get smaller each year? You can see our blog […]
Cuenca International Chorale
This is the time of year to hear Christmas music. In the past two years, there has been a choral presentation at the Old Cathedral on Parque Calderon, which we have gone to. This year, the group was comprised mostly of gringos for the first time, with the songs both in English and Spanish. We […]
Magic in Cuenca
Tomorrow marks our one year anniversary since we officially moved to Ecuador. In that time, we have become a bit jaded. With so much to do every week (and most nights), we often hear or read about an event, then ask each other “so you want to go?” The answer is often becoming “it looks like […]
Approaching Our First Year Anniversary in Cuenca
Hard to believe, but we are only a couple days short of our one year anniversary of moving to Ecuador and starting our lives as a retired couple. So much has happened in this past year that it is hard to get my head around it. I find I go back and reread my […]
Comedy and Magic
As we have noted several times, there is always something going on in Cuenca. You would have to be a hermit not to find something to do every week. We started this morning with a going away party for some friends that have decided to return to the States after several years in Cuenca. […]