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Advantages: Beautiful setting, churches and Spanish colonial architecture Disadvantages: Traffic noise and fumes, some street crime
. Apparently, performances still take place here despite it having been partially burnt out by a fire some years ago.
Quito's other notable theatre, the Sucre, has been lavishly restored in all its neoclassical glory, looking for all the world like the kind of opera house that graces many a European capital. It fronts onto the eponymous Plaza del Teatro, on the opposite side of which we found a café with open-air tables to enjoy a bowl of locros, the thick local soup that comes with side dishes of cheese, chopped avocado and roast beans to stir into it according to one's taste. In front of us was a bench ornamented with a piece of public art, the bronze statue of a man sitting on it, looking across at the theatre. A shower of rain suddenly started, as it often does in the afternoon in Quito after a sunny morning, and the square quickly ...
torr 06.07.2008 (12.07.2008)
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Advantages: Good for the garden, and you. Disadvantages: None for me.
It can be difficult to get excited about broad beans.
They're big, tough plants and not really very attractive. Yes, they flower and of course some people just love to eat the beans, but they also have hidden talents.
Like so many of their veggie friends, we're still growing and using them thousands of years after they were first discovered, so they must have something going for them.
There is evidence of a wild form of broad bean from Israel, possibly dating back to 6,800 BC, but the first cultivated beans seem to have appeared in Central America and in the Andes about 7,000 years ago.
Egyptians put them into food stores in tombs. The Greeks held "bean feasts" to honour the sun god Apollo, and also used them as tokens for voting with.
Sadly, I haven't been able to discover how they were used as an aphrodisiac or as a cure ...
Marans 16.12.2005
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Advantages: pleasant climate, lots to see, bustling with local activity Disadvantages: usual big city issues - traffic, smog, beggars, street vendors
Quito is the capital of Ecuador and stands almost 3,000 metres high on a plateau nestled among the Andes mountain range. It is just 22 km south of the Equator and yet, because of its height, it benefits from a warm eternal spring-like climate. It is a large and sprawling urban mass that is split into the two distinct areas of old city and new city. This produces a place of startling contrasts – a strange mixture of old colonial and new contemporary architecture, streets populated equally with wealthy businessmen and poor beggars, noisy bustling markets separated by quiet parks and streets, upmarket fashion and souvenir shops contrasting with impoverished street stalls. There are many attractions here including the huge Virgin of Quito who looks down over the city from her lofty position on Panecillo Hill. The views from here are ...
stuartmelvin 21.03.2001
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