Ok, I am back! After being hit for six by some stomach bug last weekend I’ve been feeling run down all week and have only been able to face eating one meal a day. I think I am finally perking up now, but must drink more water!
As I spoke about in my previous post we [...]
So much for my fussy eater! Today as we were walking through the big market in the colonial part of Oaxaca we passed a chapulines seller who I struck up a conversation with. Lillia had insisted we try chapulines when we moved to Oaxaca and at least now I can say we have. Chapulines, for [...]
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I haven’t posted any new entries for a couple of days. For this I have to thank my lovely little daughter (there is a touch of sarcasm in there). My lovely girl decided to go wild on my laptop and she has corrupted the network settings [...]
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Apologies for not updating yesterday, I was just about to sit down and write up our first few days in Oaxaca when I went out on to the terrace and found a lovely Mexican lady sitting at the table that is there. We were talking, well trying to with my limited Spanish and I was [...]
Our first stop in the U.S. leg of our trip was L.A. It was also where we had our best couchsurfing experience. We surfed with a wonderful family, Pattie, Garrett and their daughter Shea.
It was a mixed bag arriving in the U.S. It was mine and Katies’ favourite country (though now it’s a close run [...]
Aurelie, the couchsurfer who stayed with Ana and I three weeks ago, who we went to Teotihuacan with, returned on Wednesday briefly before going to the airport for her flight back to France.
She was talking about her experiences in S.E. Asia and the usual stereotype of Thailand being the ‘Land of Smiles’ came up. She [...]
Two Uruguayan couchsurfers, Pablo and Michaela, arrived last week. I took them to the Zocalo in the heart of the Centro Historico, in the exact same way, Lison, a French couchsurfer, had taken Katie and I on our first day in Mexico City.
I took a slightly different route once we got off the bus, walking [...]
Ok, if you think the title of this thread is weird, you should have tried being in my shoes yesterday!
I went back to Reforma on Monday morning to see if I could find the restaurant where I met Liilia in case she was there again. Now it is one thing when you don’t know an [...]
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