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October 20, 2005
Old Town and a Salsa Club
In the morning at a bookstore I found a copy of Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is a novel that incorporates a good deal of history of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. It should be a good book to read during the downtime on the boat next week. [Note from Peter 11/2/05: I finished this book during the trip and while it was great it was one of the most disturbing novels I have read in my life. There were times I was reading the book during our voyage when I didn’t know if I felt sick due to the rocking of the boat or from the horrific scenes I had just read. It is that brutal. It you want a first hand look at the brutality an authoritarian government uses to survive and how ordinary people do detestable things in such circumstances… read the book. But you’ve been warned. A few times while I was reading the book I turned to Em and said “I think this book is going to scar me”… some scenes are that tough to read.]
Mid-morning we headed down to old Quito to see the colonial part of town. It was pretty and had a unique charm. There was definitely a different feel from many of the colonial sections of Managua or Antigua.
Tonight we had Cuban sandwiches at a Cuban restaurant and then watched a salsa band play at a club near our hotel. The band was great and both drummers were so full of energy that it brought a smile to your face just watching them perform. We headed back to the hotel about halfway though the show to get some sleep before another busy day tomorrow.
Posted by Peter Mork at October 20, 2005 7:10 AM
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