Sunday May 20/12 update
I just had the best rest I have had in Cuenca, to bed at 1am and didn’t stir until
9:30am. Exhaustion had taken over and
this old body needed a recharge. I have
to finish this blog which will take a lot of time because of all the videos to
be uploaded to YouTube.
I responded to an ad on GringoTree for a fellow who needs
some urgent help getting to know how to get around Cuenca.
He probably got a lot of responses as the expat community here is
generally very helpful as I did not get a response from him.
I haven’t heard from my little language buddy Juan in a
while so I called him and left a message.
Bella wants to have a day of rest and relaxation and doesn’t want to go
out walking. So off I went to El Centro via the Rotary
Market and it was actually pretty quiet everywhere but there were lots of
Gringos roaming around.
At the side of Immaculate Conception I met a couple that we
had briefly spoken to Friday night at the California Kitchen, he’s English and
she is American (but she has picked up his accent) and they reside in North
Carolina. They are new here and checking
out our fair city so I took the to the iTur office to show them where to get
the bus route booklet and to show them on the map on the wall where most things
are. Then they asked for my information
and Cuenca Residency blog site which I freely gave them.
Then I walked along a path above the river between downtown
and Otorongo Market to the west and again things were very quiet. I saw this young lady taking many, many
photographs of real graffiti on walls, etc. She has been here a year and is from South Dakota.
Then I walked back on the south side of the river, always
seeing a nice view of Todos Santos bathed in the sunlight. We had some really threatening clouds go by
but only felt 3-4 drops all day. There
are some real interesting buildings towering above the Tomebamba.
I continued on up the Parque De La Madre to see some of the
finished graffiti on the plywood wall. Some
artists were still at work on them and I was blown away by some of the
intricacy of many of them. Even though I will be there in the morning for
Spanish class I thought I had better get some shots of them while I had nice
weather. Again I ran into a foursome
from Texas
who were also checking out the country.
Tom Thumb is usually right at my window as soon as I open it
so I managed to get a few more decent shots this morning and this afternoon.
Enjoy the many pics.
That was today’s excitement.
Hugs to all.
I apologize but this blog is driving me nuts today with the photo placements so please forgive the jumble all over.
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| 120520 Immaculate Conception with heavy sky |
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| 120520 Immaculate Conception
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| 120520 Immaculate Conception & Parque Calderon |
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| 120520 Todos Santos through the trees |
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| 120520 Tomebamba shimmer |
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| 120520 Street scene 1 |
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| 120520 Street scene 2 |
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| 120520 Street scene 3 |
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| 120520 Todos Santos through the trees 2 |
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| 120520 Tom Thumb 1 |
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| 120520 Tom Thumb 2 |
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| 120520 Tom Thumb 3 |
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| 120520 Tom Thumb 4 |
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| 120520 Tom Thumb 5 |
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| 120520 Tom Thumb 6 |
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