The Quito Airport opened up a bit before three pm (naturally, while I was in the International Terminal posting to this blog) so I raced back to Domestic with my heavy bag, checked in and then waited until 5pm when the flight did take off. The video that was on the tv in the airport showed a marching band parade on the ground near the runway and a parade of helicopters flying overhead. Then, one of them started to falter in the air and fell diagonally, still under some power but clearly not enough and crashed not 100 meters from the marching band on the ground. Later there was video of one person being loaded into an ambulance, so let´s hope there was only the pilot and that was the gurney we saw.
Cuenca felt good from moment one and I love my hotel. It overlooks Plaza San Francisco and is in an old colonial building in Old Town. It´s grand and gracious at the same time it´s homey. Got some good pix of the lobby and will share when I return. Walked a bit to get dinner and began to really like this place. The scale, the intimacy all work well. Tired and bed came before 10pm.
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