We decided to go camping at a small gorge in town we found a few years ago. Living in Cotacachi gives us the opportunity to discover places that as a tourist can be hard to find. This one is only a 40 min walk from the hostel with great views and landscapes of the valley…
Category: Lifestyle in Cotacachi
Hostel life during a pandemic
It was a Friday March 13th, the last day before our break from construction started, to allow the recently poured roof to dry. We were happy that after 4 weeks of construction we weren’t going to have a crew around for the next while. We’d have the whole place for ourselves. And although we had…
Hermits no more
It was a crazy 2019! We had this blog post drafted last year and never posted it. Better late than never! First Keg event at home So as Roger started ripping apart the mini-fridge for a kegerator, he made space inside for our very first keg. EVER. It was an experimental Saison-like-thing Roger had played…
2018 in review … a bit late
So last year it was pretty busy, as we were not only still under construction, but Roger started brewing and selling more beer. Malena was also super busy with work and between the two of us, we were not making time for ourselves as individuals or as social beings, and even as a couple. It’s…
Roger’s brain, Roger’s brain on visa paperwork.
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Surrender and Acceptance
It’s been more than two years since we dreamed about moving down to Ecuador to start a hostel brewery! It’s been a funky, long, and tiring trip and we still have a long way to go. But only recently this year have we started to feel more at ease. Sometimes we have to surrender and…
“Miercoledi”
So we’re tackling “Operación Roger Aprende Español”. Every morning, with Malena’s guidance (and copious coffee) we tackle a page from a dictionary (it has pictures!!) that is split into topical sections. So far covered the calendar, numbers, and dates. Roger is incredibly confused. Intestinal Fortitude We got munchy at the mercado while picking up some…
Familiar Smells
Carnaval So we walked into a warzone. Willingly. Cascada Peguche near Otavalo is a beautiful place, with a beautiful waterfall feeding a speedy little river. When we were in Quito last week the staff at the hostel said “don’t go to Peguche for Carnaval, it’s brutal, people are savages, don’t go!”. So needless to say…
Election Leads to a Run Off
So last weekend known as the Dry Weekend, was pretty much dead everywhere including the nightlife, which we kind of expected but was hard to learn first hand. We decided to go out of town for a day anyways to tour Ibarra’s Yahuarchocha lagoon with a backpack full of booze but it turns out that…