Quito at night

Since the Ketchup incident we've been a bit worried about going out with our valuables, so we've not taken any photos of the city. The school organised a trip to the old town last night so we went on that and took the camera (safety in numbers).

The old town is lovely, all Spanish colonial style buildings (mainly cathederals), that they illuminate at night. The guide spoke spanish and we think we understood most of what she said. Mostly stuff about the Spanish being cruel to the indians.

On the way back we stopped off to try some street food. We had a hot sweetcorn milkshake (not great) and a fried cheese and sugar pasty, strange, but actually quite nice.

On the whole the food here has been very good. Elena, our host is a good cook. They have a lot of soup and chicken and rice. Beans seem to come in more varieties than either of us imagained, (gav is doing a lot of "reading" in the ensuite). At dinner, we have freshly made fruit juice, it's a different fruit combo every night, most of the fruits don't even have an english name. The strangest thing is that they serve fried sweet bananas as a veg.

After our trip last night a few of us went to a bar for some cocktails (65p!) I went for a mojito but gav had an Ecose, beer and whiskey - eugh. It was nice to be out and about and feel the security of a group, especially as some of them could actually speak Spanish.