Oaxaca is an old city, complete with cobblestone streets, glorious churches built over ancient Mayan temples by the Spanish, numerous mescalarias, awesome rabbit warren markets, hordes of tourists and hawkers and nightclubs that give you hangovers. Casa Arnel was our base…lovely setting but what hotel doesn’t put room numbers on…
ye olde worlde
are you ready to rumble?
/ 23/01/2013Puebla is reached after a couple of hours on a bus out of Mexico City past fields and under a little less smog than the capital. A stroll through the nearly 500 year old settlement took us past flat walled buildings rising straight up from the footpath with tiny balconies,…
south of the border
/ 23/01/2013After the relaxed pace of my previous few weeks, cruising through the streets from airport to hotel in Mexico City was a challenge to take everything in. Despite a population hovering around 26 million, it actually didn’t feel crowded to me, the wide streets, footpaths, parks and urban sprawl seem…
bloody Shiloh
/ 16/01/2013We kept Anton out of school to give ourselves a local history lesson. Traveling east for about an hour from home we came to Shiloh National Military Park, also known as Pittsburg Landing. Producing over 23,000 casualties in two days – more casualties than America had suffered in all previous wars…
party, party, party in Paraty
/ 17/12/2012Paraty is a sweet little town that we were all very happy to see after spending over 24 hours on two buses and a couple of riveting hours delayed at Sao Paulo bus terminal. Rocks from Portugal were used to lay the roads in the oldest areas of town and…