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…
humanoid wildlife
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…
walking in Memphis
/ 16/01/2013As one of the lucky people in this world, I got to spend time with dear friends Bob, Lena and Anton at their place in Tennessee. Bob’s job takes them all over the world. We met in Australia several years ago, visited Greece and Crete together five years ago and…
flying north for the winter
/ 29/12/2012Getting out of Rio was a drama for which I was not prepared. It’s a long story that still isn’t over and may flare up again so I’ll not discuss it here, maybe later one day. Suffice to say it cost me more in time, energy, dollars and anxiety than…