We decided to leave Otovalo and head back to Quito. This week has been spent at school, that is a Spanish language school called Beraca, two hours of home work in the morning and a four hour long, marathon lesson, in the afternoon. It´s actually very fun. We´ve tried our spanish on the lady who works in the hostel, she appears to understand us but we have to ask her to repeat things a lot and talk veeeeery sloooowly! This morning we think she told us t...

So finally we arrived in Quito pretty tired, and headed straight for hostel Bask, Very nice and five quid a night for a private on-suite room. We´ve done a bit of exploring so far, visiting the old town and some very old churches. The biggest thing here seems to be shoe shining, tonnes of little boys roam the streets with black hands and shoe polish at the ready, along come Dan and I, nike trainers an´ all and they enthusiastically ask us "shoe shine se...