On Thursday we had a look around the New Town, it's a very cosmopolitan place with a commercial centre, shopping malls that are easily on a par with those back at home and numerous KFC's, McDonalds and Subway's - not a single Starbucks though which is good.
Spanish school was at the top of our 'to-do' list for Thursday and on the recommendation of the english family that we'd met the night before we enrolled at Terracentro Spanish school - four hours a day for the next two weeks.
Knowing that it's not advisable to walk around at night we chose a Peruvian restaurant close to the hostel to eat, we had the most delicious pulpo (octopus) ceviche (raw seafood marinated in lime juice), a wonderfully tasty though very rich langoustine soup and a pisco sour cocktail. The restaurant is owned and run by a really nice French/American who like us had been travelling around Latin America and decided to stay having identified the lack of Peruvian food in Quito as a gap in the market which he has now filled with three restaurants. He also recommended some other restaurants for us to try and a club the Turtles Head; "A club that plays 80's music, I hope I'm not offending you", he wasn't we're going on Thursday!
After a trial lesson with Patricia our tutor and a couple of beers while we watched the football we returned to the hostel and went for a very good curry with the English family.
Friday night curries, the same world over!
Raine x
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