Heaven, yes you heard me. This is by far the best find yet! lovely bread, fabulous quiche, pastries, chocolate, gelato 🙂 they are in a number of locations through out Quito – be on the look out, you won’t be sorry!
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Mansion Alcazar (Cuenca)
Planning a visit to Cuenca? Delightful hotel with gourmet offerings – be sure to check out Mansion Alcazar
Giving Back in Cotacachi – time to step up!
Ok yes I am involved in a big way in our new community. We are fortunate to live here in this beautiful country. Two projects that we are supporting (and are very passionate about) need donations. Please do what you can to help. ASEAC Scholarship Program This year we are hoping to send 75 local students to high school! We… Read More
Bed in a Box
Special Thanks to Rick Taylor of Ecuador Expats!! Our mattress plan is to get a couple from the following link. Have one now and very pleased. The kicker is that it is vacuum compressed into a box. Trying to remember, I’d say the box was 16″ x 16″ by the width of the mattress. You open it up and in… Read More
Smoked Meat (Cotacachi)
We found a winner of a resource for smoking meat. You need to bring your turkey/chicken/pork/roast to Victor – frozen so a couple days in advance (he can advise) We had a turkey done just a week or so ago – it was tender, juicy and fabulous!! Only speaks Spanish Los Hornos de Alfonso 0983 541 293 Victor Alfonso Guerrero… Read More
Dentist – Dr Mario Sanchez (Cuenca)
In Cuenca some people would love to check this option to go to the dentist, he use biologic material to fix your tooth and enamel, he take the metal material out and replaces it. Many people are now healthy because of him. DR MARIO SANCHEZ ODONTOLOGO NEUROFOCAL CLINICA DE ODONTOLOGIA BIOLOGICA TERAPIA NEURAL LASER – RAYOS X HIPNODONCIA 072880035 –… Read More
Moving household goods to Ecuador
updated: March 30, 2013 From: Sandra Baquero I have work 33 years in foreign commerce business and I am giving some tips and information to help expats to move in a smooth way to Ecuador and avoid mistakes. There are people having problems shipping their containers, they are confused about dates because the visas procedure have changed. The options to… Read More
Cedula requirements – includes “new” single status requirements
After obtaining our visa, we applied for our cedula in Cuenca in the same office. I received this paper today 12/04/2012 after applying for our family’s cedulas, and just finished typing up the Spanish to English via google translate. They did not look at our birth certificates nor our marriage certificates. The lady said they will do this at the… Read More
Receiving your Social Security in an Ecuadorian bank
You can have your Social Security deposited here in a bank in Ecuador. The two banks where you can do it are Produbanco and Banco Del Guyayquil. Here is a message that was on Gringo Tree from the Federal Benefits Unit in the US Embassy:——————— You should open a bank account in Produbanco or Banco de Guayaquil. Once you’ve done… Read More