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Guapalo: Sample the Best Ceviche in the City

September 2nd, 2010 | Ecuador - Gringo Favorite, Ecuador - Places to Eat, Ecuador - Travel Tips, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Last Sunday a large group of us were all sat around a cropping of picnic bench tables ordering buckets of Pilsner. One of the first timers here asked about how much he should expect to spend and Kevin, who lives up the road and comes about every week said: “I don’t know really, I always order a few beers a plate of fish and ceviche and always end up paying about $10. In the end after a few crates of beer– I’m not sure how many beers our group of thirteen drank, but we all had a plate of fish and ceviche and it was a $138 bill. I probably shouldn’t be telling you about the best cevicheria Read more

Sending money to Ecuador–Convenience is king in the automated age

August 30th, 2010 | Ecuador - Business, Ecuador - Culture, Ecuador - Travel Tips, Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’ve never been so strapped that I had to get an emergency wire, but as we all know travel and living abroad can be unpredictable so having a solid backup plan is advisable and not too hard. Fortunately for us there are many services that offer support for emergency cash while abroad taking some of the fret of life abroad. For North Americans, Ecuador is a convenient place to transfer money. The currency is in US dollars, so no conversion fees. And in major urban centers like Quito, Guyaquil, and Cuenca there are a palethora of banking facilities making for easy receiving of your cash. Money transfer can be expensive though with high transfer fees in some occasions, but with Read more

Hostel Villa Cayetano–Mariscal’s best atmospere with the best location

August 18th, 2010 | Ecuador - Family Friendly, Ecuador - Gringo Favorite, Ecuador - Places to Stay, Ecuador - Travel Tips, The Best of Ecuador, Uncategorized | No Comments »

If you come to Quito, the place to stay is in the Mariscal. Gringolandia it is, but it is the happening place town. All the good bars, the ethnic varieties of food, the extensive travel agencies and outfitters, etc, not to mention its central location between the airport to the north and the historical city to the south. Calle Calama one block over from calle Fosch(the center of it all) is home to the best restraunts, bookstores and clubs. Pretty much the hub of it all. Villa Cayetano location on Calama puts the guest in the thick of it all with a natural, open ambience, quality rooms, reasonable rates, and plenty of amenities.

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Cuenca Real Estate – buy now while they’re still selling low

August 5th, 2010 | Ecuador - Relocation, Ecuador - Travel Tips, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Cuenca is a city apart from all others and has come to be recognized as the most European feeling city in Ecuador. As such Cuenca is hands down the most popular destination for Euros and North Americans expats seeking a patch of grass a little greener than the last. It’s architecture resembles something from the streets of old world Andalusia with cobbled streets and wrought-iron fences, courtyards and verdant plants falling down from balconies into the narrow streets below. The old city itself is one of the most well preserved colonial cities in South America and gained UNESCO world heritage status in 1999 to preserve it as a great historical attraction. And it isn’t just the buildings which attracts Read more

Survive South America—Study Spanish in Cuenca and the Galapagos

July 21st, 2010 | Ecuador - Business, Ecuador - Culture, Ecuador - Family Friendly, Ecuador - Gringo Favorite, Ecuador - Places to Stay, Ecuador - Travel Tips, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Travel in South America can be exciting frustrating all at the same time. There are amazing sites to see here in Ecuador: Galapagos islands, Cuencan colonial colossuses, snow-capped Cotopaxi. But unless you go on organized tours, you’re gonna have to know a little Spanish to get around. And if you plan on settling here in Ecuador, you better know a lot more than a little Spanish to survive the day-to-day living. Even a trip to the market for bread and butter will result in a lot of pointing and frantic hand gestures if you don’t know the most elementary of Spanish. Compared to places like Asia, where education is held in high esteem and, thus, you can always Read more

Report from Quito—Where the hell can I get a drink?

June 28th, 2010 | Ecuador - Adults Only, Ecuador - Gringo Favorite, Ecuador - Gringo Owned Business, Ecuador - Nightlife, Ecuador - Places to Eat, The Best of Ecuador, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

It was last Sunday in the Mariscal, I walked up to Finn McCools, a popular Irish pub in Quito’s Mariscal with the mind to order a Sunday roast and indulge myself. The waitress tells me there will be no roasts and that they’ll be shutting in 30 minutes. Normally the beer would be flowing at 4:30 in the afternoon, with the mixed crowd of locals, tourists, and expats watching sports, eating, or playing pool, but the new law had kept pretty much everybody at home. Quitos’ new drinking law had gone into effect and we were feeling it here at ground zero in the Mariscal, Quitos main party zone.

I looked back outside contemplating where to get Read more

Guapalo: Sample the Best Ceviche in the City

Sending money to Ecuador–Convenience is king in the automated age

Hostel Villa Cayetano–Mariscal’s best atmospere with the best location

Cuenca Real Estate – buy now while they’re still selling low

Survive South America—Study Spanish in Cuenca and the Galapagos

Report from Quito—Where the hell can I get a drink?

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