"Visitors" on the train

At one point in the afternoon they made us all get into one of the cars and suddenly some "visitors" emerged. And there was a bit of dancing. Again we passed some villages, saw some nice mountains, and occasional animals. We got a demo by a master of some special technique of straw wrapping at the last stop for the day.

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Hosteria La Andaluza in Riobamba

We stayed in a very nice hotel, Hosteria La Andaluza, in Riobamba. We were entertained at dinner by musicians. There were all sorts of artifacts scattered about. The table between the beds in our room was propped up by an old Singer treadle for a sewing machine. And we saw a bunch of these in different places. (My desk at home is propped up by one as is a plant table on the porch of our Gloucester house.) It was a picturesque place but we spent very little time there other than the night. The food was good too.

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