Right, so on with the show..(having just spent an hour yesterday trying to update blog only to discover it didn´t save anything!) After several sad goodbyes in San Jose it was time for round 2, so off I flew to Quito, on the way getting some good time to practice my spanish with an Ecuadorian fighter pilot on the way. Quito is the second highest capital city in the world after La Paz, nestling away at 2,300m above sea level, and the altitude becomes apparent when even doing something so menial as climbing 3 flights of stairs! Managed to meet up with Matt without problem and took a highly interesting bus ride out to the Ecuator monument (Mitad del Mundo) for lots of entertaining perspective photos and some nice panoramas of the beautiful surrounding quarries (some
... read more