Wednesday, July 09, 2008
A Trip to Ecuador
Straight after Channel 4’s Taste festival…
In Regent’s Park we packed our stand up in record time, piled into the van and bombed back up the M1 (so rock and roll) to get to the airport to catch our flight to Ecuador…
So if we met you at the taste festival 2 weeks ago sorry we didn’t catch up since then but it was nice chatting to you over some pineapple and cherries…
I’d like to just clear up that Ecuador is where the tropical fruits come from because bizarrely a lot of you ask me if they’re from the UK? I hope you’d been sampling the wine when you said that.
So we went to check out the farms, plan the ‘Ecuador (nursery) project’ as well some as take care of some other very important business, like investigate the rumours of an anaconda on the farm (confirmed true 5-7m eek), visit a chocolate factory (ok we repent), look for some whales (don’t ask!) and attend the fruit farmers wedding (an honour).
Here’s some pics to give you a flavour of our trip…
Say thanks to these trees for your tasty mango (good manners cost nothing):
And this year’s mango (don’t fret they’ve got months to grow..)
Talking to cocoa about fair play - which funnily enough grows on the same farm as our mangoes…
A pineapple making day…
You can see we use really really nice fruit….and absolutely nothing else!
Meet the chief (Paula) she makes sure we get it nice and juicy
Yes I am ashamed to admit it but I succumbed to this terrible breakfast at 5am after 3 flights and 20hrs of travelling on the way back (1 more flight, 4 hrs to go!) There was nothing healthy on offer so it’s about time we had a word…
Andrew calls an early airport conference…
See you soon!
