Paying a lot of attention to the useless lecture!

Orientation of Quito (even though we´ve been here a fortnight already!)

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March 5th 2007
I think today was some kind of record for the three of us in that we actually managed to be at the British Embassy dead on ten and we were the first ones there! In fact we were the only ones there for quite a while - it seem the others had been informed of a change of plans and knew we were now supposed to meet at eleven but no-one had managed to get the message to us. Typical really! Anyway, ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Quito

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more