Chapter 1: The Holiday Well, I left the UK with Jackie on the 11 January 2009 flying from Heathrow to Quito (via Miami). The flight was late arriving in Miami, we missed our connection, had to spend a night there and get a flight to Ecuador following morning. We stayed in an ´Interesting´ Hotel which looks a lot better in the photo than it actually was. We arrived in Quito to a man holding a sign with our names on it, a first for me, and he took us to our hostel. We stayed at the Travellers Inn, just on the edge of the Mariscal, the New Town of Quito - also know as ´Gringio Land´ because of all the foreigners who hang around there. Our first excursion was to the ´Middle of the World´, the
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