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Roadside Dummies
These straw-filled effigies (like scarecrows!) are burned on New Year´s eve, their pockets stuffed with firecrackers and with scraps of paper telling of sins and negative events frm the past year.
Holiday Fun in the Big City
December 28th 2008 First of all, let me wish a HAPPY, HEALTHY New Year to all of my blog readers! Here´s hoping that 2009 treats you oh so fine!!
I am very grateful to my new friend, Maggie, who loaned me her apartment in Quito while she was travelling in Peru. I stayed for 10 days in a luxury furnished flat, complete with bathtub (ah!), washer & dryer, internet access, TV, and all the comforts of home along wi
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