Cuenca, Ecuador: What was the city like before the gringo invasion

cuencahihlife.com – John Keeble / Interview with long time expat

What was Cuenca like before the gringo invasion?

Frank Illing, owner of Wunderbar and Café Austria, can be considered an expert on the subject. He arrived in the city in 1990 and has seen dramatic changes in the 27 years since then.

When he came to town, foreigners were “something exotic” because there were almost none if them in the city. Local people rarely went out at night, Illing recalls, since there were only a handful of restaurants and bars. There was so little traffic, he says, that there were only two or three traffic lights in the historic district, and motorists could park almost anywhere. Read Article

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