Quito

We awoke, stiff and tired and went for breakfast. We then decided to do some admin: laundry; book exchanges and lunch soon passed and we were at leisure to become tourists.

We took a taxi to the old part of town which, whilst interesting, was yet another old part of a South American city with lots of churches, squares and white buildings.

We took the walking tour recommended in the Lonely Planet as far as the (rather disappointing, if old) ice cream shop and then decided on a change of tack.

Church in square in Quito

T reluctantly agreed to come with me up the new Teleferico (cable car - T hates cable cars) to have a view over the city. It was OK.

Quito from above

After a slightly unpleasant return trip (the two lads in the car with us were restless and T had to resort to glowering at them to get them to stop moving about) we alighted in the amusement arcade where I beat T at driving games and she beat me at Dolphin Derby (and won herself a stuffed toy to boot). We got a cheap bus back down to town, which stopped outside the laundrette. Which was closed.

After waiting for an hour or so in the Cafe next door, the lass came out of the laundry and gave us our clothes. We retired to our rock (in a nicer room, but still a rock) for another restless night.