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Jazz Society of Ecuador LaVina restaurant, Cuenca, Ecuador
On Wednesday thru Saturday nights, from 6:30-10:00 pm, on the 2nd floor of La Vina Restaurant, at Luis Cordero 5-101 y Juan Jaramillo, the Jazz Society of Ecuador holds forth. The group this evening is piano, drums, bass, and a tenor...
Christmas Candy Dec 4th in Cuenca
There are Christmas lights already being hung in Parque Calderon. On balconies, in store front windows and living rooms, trees are dressed with lights, nativity scenes, tinsel, peppermint sticks and brightly colored Christmas ornaments. This little...
Parque Calderone PowWow Celebrating ex-pats, visitors, locals, foreign investors, government dignitaries
On a Carol tip, this event celebrates the integration of foreign ex-pats into the Ecuadorian community. In a city leaning towards five hundred thousand there are estimates that twenty thousand Americans have relocated to Cuenca, not that many for...
Coconut Jose selling water
This morning Jose scampers up a coconut tree on the Island Academy grounds and separates coconuts from their necks. They fall with a thud to the sand where he collects them, uses his machete to scalp them, then pours coconut water into plastic jugs that...
Christmas Decorating Crazy Canuck's
As quick as Thanksgiving goes, Christmas is nipping at its heels. The girls at Crazy Canuck's, on a Friday afternoon, have opened cardboard boxes and are decorating. Stockings hang over the liquor shelves, tinsel is hung around the bar's ceiling, an...
J and J Laundry laundry day
When I travel light I look for a laundry first thing. Down the street, from Chez Caribe, is my dirty clothes salvation. Kenny owns and operates the J and J Laundry and works long hours- six days a week. You take your clothes, drop them off ,and...
Thanksgiving Turkey Day in Belize
Thanksgiving dinner falls into my lap. In the middle of a Walkaholics ramble, our group is invited by the owner of the Sandbar to a free annual Thanksgiving dinner at her bar and grill. It is something she likes cooking for and an appreciation to loyal...
Construction Zone Legends Bar and Grill Grand Opening soon
Alcoholics can't walk by a bar without going in. Ministers can't hear church bells without reaching for their Sermon. Firemen change clothes at the smell of smoke. Construction workers can't avoid a construction zone. This has been a year of house...
Pool at the Average Joe Bar pool sharks beware
Evenings, if you get bored, you can play pool at the Average Joe Bar down the street from Chez Carib, next to the Caribbean Fuels gas station in San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, Belize. Pool is a good game to know how to play, and, like riding a bicycle,...
Wheels in the shop In the shop in Belize
Golf carts are in, in San Pedro Town. Some of the carts are old; others are new. New ones cost from nine to fifteen thousand U.S. dollars depending on what they have under their seat, and, while the carts aren't complicated mechanically, mechanic shops...
A Good Place to Stay Good value in San Pedro Town
According to Rabbit, retired bartender, Ramon's Village is one of the better values in San Pedro Town. If you are coming to Ambergris Caye for a week and want to have convenience, service, good food, security, access to the water, a good home base for...
Progress at Chez Caribe building a path
Lake Caribe has not vanished. This morning a path is built of cinder blocks so those of us walking from the house to the street don't get our shoes wet. Some say there is no progress in this little slice of Paradise but this path is living proof that us...
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