First full day in Ecuador started off with breakfast in the courtyard of Casa Helbling. $2.80 gets you great bread, tea or coffee, jam (guava and blackbery) butter, and fresh squeezed fruit juice... Eggs and cheese are about two or three extra. Nice place to eat breakfast, surrounded by lots of potted flowering plants, and a giant tree in the middle, sticking up through a hole in the roof, with some birds hopping around on the roof. It's a nice place to stay, in general. Helpful staff, very clean, with a small library of books, lounge, kitchen, laundry, safe, and rooftop terrace. While we were there they were in the midst of repainting everything, so looked good! Only complaint was the gas tank running out during our stay... Cold showers! Most of the first day was
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