Beyond Beach Resorts and Tourist Towns – finding the real Mexico
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Tag Archives: Mexico
Not Much Merriment in Merida
15-22 Dec 2016. We travel by bus from Playa del Carmen to Merida, the capital of the state of Yucatan. …
Playa del Carmen Overexposed
Okay, let’s not be pretending here. Play del Carmen is a hyper-developed, over-glitzed tourist resort town. It’s a twenty-something kid …
The Streets of San Miguel
7 Jan– 4 Apr 2016. In San Miguel de Allende (SMA) we lived in the colonia, or neighbourhood, of Infonavit …
The ‘Painted’ Flowers of La Manzanilla
Those of you who follow the blog regularly know that the stories of our travels are told chronologically. Thus, I …
Life is a performance: Aztec and modern creativity in Mexico City
6-13 August 2013. Our first day in Mexico City and we went wandering to the Zócolo which was full of …
Oaxaca and the Guelaguetza Festival: dance ’til you drop
20 July-6 Aug 2013. This is the fourth and final post about the Guelaguetza Festival. We were in Oaxaca for …
The Espectáculo Guelaguetza Festival
20 July-6 Aug 2013. A continuation of the story of Oaxaca’s Guelaguetza Festival: ESPECTÁCULO MASIVO! That’s what the program said. …
Europe in Mexico: San Miguel and Guanajuato
22-29 June 2013. The first thing I have to report is that we bought our grandsons Mexican wrestlers’ masks. Of …
Scorpions, Storms, and Ordinary Life – La Manzanilla, Mexico
24 July 2018. I normally receive about ten scam comments per week scattered throughout different posts. A few months ago, and …
La Manzanilla by the Sea: a place to rest
27 March-20 July 2013. In the previous post Don spoke of his relief to be leaving Myanmar, and that he …
Adventures in Wonderland 