I have met a lot of people in this trip but there have been a special few who have changed my life, my outlook, inspired me or who have just stood head and shoulders above the rest.
I have decided to write a series about the extra special people I have met so far who have [...]
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This is photographic entry with some of my favourite pictures that I took on the whole trip. They involve the most tame lizard I have ever come across. We were at a cultural village in Kuching, Sarawak, which is in Malaysian Borneo, and this little fella happily posed for ages for peoples cameras. I’m not [...]
This is the bum shaking, hip wiggling Mariachi I mentioned in a previous post when I went on a canal boat in Xochimilco. It may just be me, and maybe you had to be there but I found him hilarious!
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Before I made plans to come to Mexico I was as aware as everyone else of the high amount of kidnappings in Mexico City, so I decided that even though we would have to fly into Mexico City we would get out as soon as possible on the next bus or plane to another part [...]
After having a lie in after not getting to bed till the early hours, Katie, Aureli, Anas’ sister, nephew, a couple of friends of hers and I went out for a late breakfast in the old part of Mexico City. We were going to have a walk around town before going to a traditional form [...]
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There is this wonderful little taqueria a few doors down from my apartment block with a delightful lady, pictured above, that makes some of the most amazing food I have ever tasted. Katie and I can eat here for less than $1.50, bonus!
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Two nights ago a couchsurfer, Aurelie, from France arrived for a few days and yesterday we all went to one of Mexico’s major archaeology sites, the pyramids at Teotihuacan. It was only a bus ride away from Mexico City, in fact you could say it was on the outskirts as we never actually left suburbia. [...]
Katie and I went back to the Zocolo today which is the heart of the historical centre of Mexico City. Otherwise known as Constitution Plaza, or Plaza de la Constitución, is built over the site of Tenochtitlan, the ceremonial centre of the Aztec Empire. It is the largest public square in the Western hemisphere, it [...]
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