One of the good, if not best, things about Cuenca is that it is difficult to make the difference between reality and fantasy, as people live exactly there where myth joins the fairy tale to look as if wrapped in reality.

Thus. We were told that these pictures, taken secretly by a maid, belong to the house of one of the richest people in Azerbaidjan, and only inheritor, it is said, of a never ending number of petrol resources. Or gas. Differences become slight with distance. It is said, although nobody believes it, that the one is prosecuted by at least 13 members of the SVR, as it was suspected that new revolutionary anti Russian movements could be accompanied by the sudden enrichening of a certain number of people belonging to radical wings. Reason why – whispers continue – the person in question decided to move to Cuenca, Ecuador, where nobody, except ourselves, would manage to locate her.

   

In order not to draw attention on her, she hid away behind classical Cuencanian interior architecture.

 

And this while other rumours insistendly maintain that members of the Cartel of Cali have moved to town giving in to increasing pressure in Colombia.

 

 

As we tend not to believe in anything of what is said, we just maintain that copper is well worked in the region, that silver shows its best in some of the items shown and that deep blue darkness gives a home a certainly quite particular touch. With or without Amaretto, you may say.