This morning I worked out that we have spent less money in two days in Quito than we did in three hours at Atlanta airport.
We booked a flight to the Galapagos Islands yesterday, where Charles Darwin famously sat down, looked at a load of birds and after much stroking of beard, concluded 'Bloody hell those bishops are lying to us'.
We arrived just after noon at a big shed (or airport as they call it) then took a bus then a ferry then another bus to travel the from one side of the island to the other and the main town of Puerto Ayora. It's fabulous, so we spent the day lazily wandering the streets and as there are only about 12 it shows just how lazily we were wandering. After some negotiations we booked a boat to take us on an eight day tour of the islands.
How is the weather in London?
By popular demand (one person), throughout South America I will be introducing and updating a league table of street food. As a first entry and more than deserved first place we have, today's lunch of:
Fried meat and plantain balls with a shredded salad – $1.50 – Bloody fantastic.
I was also planning a league table of beers, but they seem to only have two in Ecuador, last night I tried one called Pilsner which was bad then another called Club which was better. So tonight I first ordered a Club which was bad then a Pilsner which was better. I think they are the same. This one may require more work.
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The Galapagos Islands are the most incredible living museum of evolutionary changes, with a huge variety of exotic species (birds, land and sea animals, plants) and landscapes not seen anywhere else.
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