Ecuador
Ecuador: City Life, Amigos and Frailejones
As property investors and supermarkets continue to squeeze the life out of the British high street, each town and city is left with a bland, depressingly orderly and homogenised selection of the same high street retailers. Small independent retailers squeezed out by escalating rents, decreasing foot fall and the destablising effects of out of town […]
Ecuador: Trans Ecuador and rich dirt veins
Whilst Peru brazenly lays its wares out to bear, offering a dizzying array of dirt roads through high Andean country, by contrast Ecuador has a girl next door charm. Shy and difficult to get to know at first but scratch beneath the surface, dig a little deeper and you will find a country as equally […]
Ecuador: Mud, Coffee and Biodiversity
A lot can happen in two months…or not as the case may be. Despite a concerted effort to make it over the Ecuadorian border in time for Christmas, the intense riding of previous weeks takes a different pace as New Year comes and goes. Flo patiently waits for a delivery from France whilst I hop […]