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Street Food In the park

Street Food In the park

    There are dining opportunities available this morning. This girl is carrying, on her head, confections to sell in front of the New Cathedral to afternoon crowds the day after New Year. The mounds of whipped cream with ice cream cones stuck in the top,...

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Burning Man couldn't wait till dark

Burning Man couldn't wait till dark

    This affair starts early. Usually, people wait till dark to do their exorcisms, but this bunch has already laid their body in the street in front of a business and are stuffing papers down its pants. In a world of camera phones, nothing goes un-noticed...

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Angels and Demons Halloween revisited

Angels and Demons Halloween revisited

    Ecuador doesn't celebrate Halloween but they have New Year's Eve to take Halloween's place. Today there are bad spirits about. They are atop cars, seated in chairs in retail stores, looking down from balconies, slumped on curbs and grouped near churches....

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Artist words Andres Arizaga Cordero

Artist words Andres Arizaga Cordero

    This exhibit is in a Cuenca city government supported gallery, Salon del Pueblo, next to the Don Colon Restaurant, across from the New Cathedral. The artist is a teacher of art locally. He was born in Cuenca. His art is stark and grotesque but his...

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Christmas Baby Coming out of the New Cathedral

Christmas Baby Coming out of the New Cathedral

    On the 24th of December there is a massive Christmas parade through downtown Cuenca. On the 25th of December, the day officially celebrated as Christ's birthday, there is a much smaller and simpler celebration at the New Cathedral across from the Parque...

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Cuenca Work Out New twist on the stairs

Cuenca Work Out New twist on the stairs

    People work out. Some walk, some run, some drink beer, some play golf. Others go to the weight room or swim. Old men like to play softball under lights at night and dancing is loved by couples who wouldn't put on a pair of running shorts but will squeeze...

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Sunrise Cafe Cuenca ex-pat hangout

Sunrise Cafe Cuenca ex-pat hangout

    You go down Luis Cordero all the way to Calle Larga, make a right, go mas y meno two blocks and look right, and you are at the Sunrise Cafe Cuenca. The Sunrise Cafe Cuenca is a hangout for ex-pats. It is a comfortable mom and pop place with good prices,...

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Adams family so closed up I can't get in

Adams family so closed up I can't get in

    Walking, you see odd stuff. This Museo and Cafe is on a walkway, just down from one of the tortuous staircases that lead you from Cuenca's Historical District to the Tomebomba river. The first time I tried to visit this curiosity, its front door was...

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Christmas Parade All day affair

Christmas Parade All day affair

    The Christmas Parade on December 24th is the full Monte. It is an all day affair with the parade route being prepared at seven in the morning and the end of the parade passing Calderone Park at seven in the evening. It is music, floats, dancers, walkers,...

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Skeletons on the wall Seems like Mexico again

Skeletons on the wall Seems like Mexico again

    There is a lively street art scene in Cuenca. One can google Cuenca Street Art and find examples I haven't met yet. At an intersection where traffic moves from the Rio Tomebamba into the Historical District there are two skeletons on an exterior wall of...

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Jazz time Jazz Society of Ecuador, Cuenca, Ecuador

Jazz time Jazz Society of Ecuador, Cuenca, Ecuador

    Gilberto is trying a new reed. Sue is playing clarinet instead of soprano sax. A different bass player is sitting in. It is Wednesday, the middle of the week. At showtime, it doesn't matter how many hours you practice, how much theory you know, how many...

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Wedding Pictures A different kind of wedding

Wedding Pictures A different kind of wedding

    These two couples, just married, are getting their wedding photos taken in Parque Calderone. When I first see them they have, with them, a young bearded tenor sax player playing " Here comes the Bride " on a street corner. Their little photographer is...

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