Wednesday, April 20, 2011

"If you want to get ahead, get a hat" Jenandtony's photos around Cuenca, Ecuador

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Cuenca, Ecuador by TravelPod blogger Jenandtony titled "If you want to get ahead, get a hat..." Jenandtony's travel blog entry: "Our next staging post on our way south has been Cuenca. For some reason we had gained the impression that it was a small town but it turns out that it is actually the third largest city in Ecuador with lots of small cafes and bars. Strangely the country's biggest city is Guayaquil and the capital, Quito, is only the second largest. Like most South American cities, Cuenca's size is mostly in the rambling suburbs and the centre remains relatively untouched. Although it lacks large numbers of the grander colonial houses it has lots of attractive smaller places set amongst narrow cobbled streets. There are several churches scattered around, many with interesting domes, and the city even boasts two cathedrals, either side of the main plaza. The old one is known as El Sagrario and was begun in 1557. It was expanded and the walls were substantially decorated over the next few years. However, in about 1930, someone decided it was hard work trying to preserve the paintings so instead they whitewashed all the walls with industrial paint. Now an international project has turned the place into a museum and managed to reveal some of the paintings but sadly much has been lost. While we were in Popayan a few days ago, Tony had tried to get a haircut but the old-fashioned barber refused because he hasn't got ...

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Friday, April 8, 2011

The limping Gringo Huacrapuquio Stranger (A Short Story)

!: The limping Gringo Huacrapuquio Stranger (A Short Story)

One afternoon, the mayor Vladimir Rodriguez, was a stranger had come into the city, its mandate, the village called Huacrapuquio, in the Mantaro Valley in the central region, told the Andes in Peru (a town of about 3600 - people) . The mayor sat on a wicker chair in his backyard in a spot of sun, listen to her talk about the issue Tapia Theodosia governor, the mayor is very busy, as he spoke. This was her anxiety to conceal thatsomeone had come into his city without entering, and pursued, he more than before his arrival the governor, through the grapevine (the vice mayor, the governor of this city) has heard, I was told, and told the mayor that the same-when, in the stranger, the two giants, his eyes shining points inconsistent with coal-dark-cold, which has led some men to his knees had been shaking hard, he noticed them and suffer the same fate, it was the governora miserable state of fear, confusion and speechless-ness.

But I want to go back a month or so, the reader may help with the story, connecting the dots, as they say. The city was put in a road made of asphalt and dug deep along a curve just outside the town-let, and to their surprise they discovered an entrance to a cave, perhaps, to compare more than a deep dry well, a forty feet in depth, and made a pert of the workers in the vicinity was in mine.

E 'was found byshinning a flashlight into the depths of the pit, foot bones of a cat than 15 thousand years ago, saber-tooth, the size of a lion that is larger than the foot of a man in his shoes. Two saber-tooth been found about nine inches long, a matter of fact, 70%, the old cat that anthropologists and archaeologists from the museum and cultural center of Lima, he thought the weight of 300 pounds, cat Young and older was the weight it would be possible of course increasing.

Inthe process of digging first noticed the arms or legs, feet, were twice as large as the back, then the notion that cats such proportions since ancient times, like today, with more body was similar. This cat had a more subtle and less a torso in comparison to modern lions or tigers, it seemed as if he had jumped to pray for her instead of trying to run out, would have been much slower because of her back legs and powerful It may have been in the past indicate that wearing fatalJump, more contemporary that lions, tigers or today.

The excavations have proved beyond doubt a great find is just another cat, as, indeed, proved to be so completely all over the world, and that was in the United States, where they found 100% of the animals found. This is what led to the limping Gringo Stranger Huacrapuquio so they say.

He was the stranger who has a thin voice, and those who approached him, noticed his trembling lips seemed that if youhis dark eyes sharp. A couple of Peruvians had asked: "What's wrong?" A simple question was never asked for the second time, was what might be called an agent of terror, he would move his hand over his mouth, too vague, in a desperate whisper, he would talk to someone who could not be know who exactly.

As you can see (or have read this far) and I turn to you, the reader, the points that seem to say that: the appearance of the alien,Following hauntingness devil as his eyes, and the discovery of city people "connecting old cat I mean, in some mysterious way, but still connects. But in the following paragraphs, because he did what he did, both for fame or no game to quantify. Maybe you can.

The alien first appeared and was apparently just too kind a stranger passing right across the country.

In search of a better description, especiallyfor his conduct, the stranger was compared with the Devil after his arrival, he came to his evil work of this small village, seemed to have a sin against purity because no one was worse for rent in this city. But I fear that my story is always in front of events.

The mayor shook his head miserably to the governor, is sitting on wicker chairs handmade in the backyard of the mayor, in an area of ​​sun. The mayor cleared his throat, so do itsSoft, quiet voice say something, if ever, without significant pain and try to act like a smart politician. He repeated the government, in a form of devotion, and he was not a man of God per se, but perhaps it may seem, in return God would help him deal with them properly.

"Tell me what you did to this man, I say to him, and this city who cares?" asked the mayor in poverty.

The governor has seen him in tears near the eyes and did notResponse, the mayor has been repeated again and he was haggard impression of the governor, he created had calmed abandon this approach.

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The mayor met with the stranger when the stranger asked to see the effect that the remains of bones of ancient cat, still being excavated, had been preserved in the mud, and the cave was closed by the civilization, now the opposite. At first, when he, the mayor Vladimir Rodriguez, who met limping GringoStranger, seemed friendly enough limping each other, it seemed a bit 'out of balance physical, matter-of-fact, has acquired a sort of Commodore in minutes. But Vladimir was alert, the sentiment behind the curtain of this man's face, reverend or less at the time, was his mortal soul alone in this situation was in danger, and then the stranger had his work whispering, hissing and thoroughly broken at intervals as if he speaks to his high priest, his words not be audible throughout theconcerned, incoherent to the listener.

Said the stranger, the limping Gringo and looked at the bones, then the mayor: "I see that it is not difficult to solve ...!" someone broke a tooth during excavation

The mayor knew that this was, in fact, that the tooth was accidentally unearthed during the process, they broke out, but how did you know that the stranger was broken, the street and not within the last 15,000 years, to this question in depth the time the mayor and the head was the Gringowhich means that it could solve the problem, really solve the problem, which has never been broken, or see broken? Perhaps the alien tease, the archaeologists was a difficult task to say the least, and said to the stranger with a bold voice: "This is a difficult, complex you are talking about."

The mayor was waiting to hear presses nervous, that the stranger would say next to "I can fix it for you is here, watching over them when you want?" said the stranger, in a clear and audibleVoice.

Vladimir came to speak at the next series which is now in full alert in the declaration foreigners, but the National Institute of Culture has been considered the construction of the village is a small museum, to be home these bones, and this would be a victory for him inconceivable when in fact, could have solved the tooth, what really seemed to be irreparable, it would be even better result, but would provide a sort of black magic, a real weakness for his beliefs or proclaimed to be Christians, but livelife was a different way, I mean, he had rosaries and statues of the Virgin Mary in his house and of Christ on the cross, and hang in his car, a silver medal around the mirror, but faith, raise seed something good book said it was a different animal, and was far in-between when he actually said a prayer, saying he wanted without asking anything in return, not really, but go through the process moves to impress his audience, as he had the seedof faith, and whether the alien could be a kind of victory to show the weakness of man, against humanity, the capacity is there to leave the show-off, but that he would die in the process of its association with the gray world This man lived and probably related to ebony sign of his soul. But so be it, it was a possibility that he was willing to take, and the magic trick was more authentic, I mean, the mayor believed the devil had no power over that of tactical, perhapsI respect his faith in God

Fr Vladimir was almost a stranger in the eye, learned by heart: "Yes, what can you do, tell me if you can dazzle with the almost impossible," said the mayor of the gringo lame.

"OK," said the stranger, "I will surprise you," and at the same time, he threw himself into these bones incorrigible wild Creator! "

"You are arrogant," the mayor said, "you take up a lot of my time, and now you say you can throw my flesh and blood to the bone, and securethe saber-toothed tiger now cracked in no time, if you do not offer what you do to me for my time? "

The words blurred in front of a stranger, but he held his peace, and he was a husky whisper, he hesitated, as if it were now eagerly looking for something to offer.

"I confess," said the stranger, "What do you want?"

Vladimir had not taken into consideration, but that he had convinced my attention that maybe something could be gained by this adventure. The stranger looked atVladimir and fear has a solid form for mayor, he had not prayed in a moment of trying to convince God himself, was in trouble, but it was exciting in a tense battle.

And now he gave his side the most beautiful woman, she was naked in a more shameful, long reddish hair, teen, "You can be your lover, as long as you wish her a slight courtesy to say to your mind, that is what you really want. "

His heartand lung was pounding as wheels of trains, presses his chest, his face was in a hurry in the crook of the elbow, took off his jacket and put light on this sensual, captivating look female human, as if a manor in the world of the devil.

"OK," he said, as if ready to go home, now that concept has no part in it demonic.

"Forgive me, Father," he said, surrounded by some dark face deep into the stone wall of the cave, "MyFriend, he took a bite of temptation "immediately the bones of saber-toothed cat was recommended, as if it were new, he saw Vladimir, said:" It 's really a simple task, "now the shadow of the woman a bit 'shifted to the opposite corner of the narrow limestone plaque, which was forty feet to the bone, and greeted the mayor, to join him.

The mayor had come to exhaustion, keep the beautiful woman with unchaste thoughts and desires, unable towhisper the name of the Lord for help, also played in the evil beings on him, caught the regulatory systems, and in a strange romantic excitement is a strange thing, he was with the girl, and had the bones of the animal zone, where he met the animal and the day when the earth was 15,000 years ago had.

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Bones, with a delicacy made from the moat and the city museum, even until the last moment, when he burned hisBronze flesh, as if the fire in his bones, he could see his eyes hard incorrigible girl who seduces him, his fingers clenched drove him deeper and deeper into the bone.

The stranger, the lame gringo, this means a great relief to hear in a job well done. For now, the gringo lame as the people on the chair of the Devil King, has tasted the arrogance of the state of things, "murmured his high priest.

And now, Vladimir, who had come to his senses, he began to regretstrong, but obviously nonsensical, "Oh, God, the Almighty, I'm sorry I offended ... but you have to solve this problem now, so I'll stay here and take the path over and over again in the life of the saber-cat gear, and my life. "

A minute later a door opened in the museum, and you could hear the voice of a woman, what two people on a tour of the bones, a man Gringo by the United States to visit the community, and a Peruvian woman (man and woman) that is when he camefull realization of what he had done.

Despite his wishful thinking that evasion of the devil was to bring his new world can not, at least until the day of Judgement.

Note: Written on napkins, 23.12.2008, a day after the visit to the village, Huacrapuquio, Peru and distributing hundreds of books, the children of this city at Christmas 2008. 12/26/2008 to 12/25/2008 and completed the re-cut. The story originally written in the draft clock to 1.15, as seen with the city,and the museum, and hearing about the saber-toothed cat, from 13,000 BC. the author has tried, with the installation of non-fiction fiction, this story, "The Stranger Gringo lame ..." The story does not show the true character of the mayor or governor of Huacrapuquio which the opposite of the characters are writers, and should otherwise be expected.

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The limping Gringo Huacrapuquio Stranger (A Short Story)

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