Our first visitors, Debbie and Timmy

Deb and Timmy came to stay with us in November. They stayed with us for a weekend before they headed off to the Galapagos for 8 days and then to the jungle. As well as showing them round Quito old town we went up the teleferico which goes up Pinchincha and overlooks the whole city. We also went to the 'Midad del Mundo,' where we had a go at all the different experiments and enjoyed trying to kick the world (look at the picture of Tim's toe!) There are 2 middle of the world museums. The first one, is the famous one where the monument is, where everyone has their photograph taken. They then realised that it hasn't been built on the equator at all but that it was 50 metres out. So, another smaller museum was built in the correct location further up the road! Here it is not well advertised and not many tourists go so it is much much better. You can try and balance an egg on a nail, see water going different ways down the sink either side of the equator and get more of the history of the country. It was great having them to stay, they were grateful to stay in a hotel rather than a hostel for a change!