Even at high elevations, if the season is exceptionally wet, the teas are thin and uninteresting. They are called “weathery.”

Whether the “Oprah effect” extends to influencing the outcome of a presidential race remains to be seen, but there are already signs of backlash from her audience.

And Orlando is sipping beer and eating sancocho at his favorite café.

The curse of the steam-boat is upon the lovely river; but some of the villas, imbedded in their own old trees—surrounded by turf the fairy queen might tread—girdled with every variety of flowery shrub—I do not quite say I could spend the whole day there, but I could have a luxurious breakfast—one ought to indulge in natural tastes of a morning.