A brief visit to Ecuador

Didn´t get to do much in Ecuador as my Emma, me little sister fell sick in Patagonia, but I spent a week there and it was only lovely. I went to a Panama hat factory there and found out how they were made - my interesting fact of the day is that the Panama hat was originally from Ecuador but as the workers of the Panama canal all wore them, they became known as Panama hats - interesting, eh?

Besides the hats, I checked out the old city of Quito which is stunning, not at all what I imagined, though by all accounts a wee bit dangerous. And what visit to Ecuador would be complete, without a trip to the Equator. Tis only a line on the ground (and there´s two rival lines) but it was marvellous to see and I did go to a little museum where I was awarded a certificate for being able to balance an egg on a nail - now there´s something I can put in my cv.