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A word about food!
... the same things as home. I know that at home I often cook a batch of food that I can split up and freeze. We also haven’t bought a lot of meat; instead we tend to buy various types of beans and cook them up to either mix with salad or blend them and make our own refried beans…..because of course you can buy every type of tortilla here so we eat a lot of guacamole and salsa.
Everywhere you shop you see piles of readymade mole or the ...
7. The bus ride isn't quite what I'm used to
... of kerning and spelling errors. These signs are done by professionals. Sign painting is becoming a lost art in the US as computers make it easy to generate sturdy, professional signage. It looks like the art is still alive in Mexico. (FYI: In my twenties, I briefly apprenticed with two different sign painters).
We passed many food stands right beside the highway advertising barbacoa, pork, chicken, and mixed meats. These were generally large canopy tents with ...
The first of many pyramid sites
... Egypt but Paul disagrees, nothing new there then. It didn’t quite have the aura of Machu Pichu but it comes close. Here you have two complete pyramids one of The Sun and one of The Moon which stand along the Avenue of the Dead, with several other plazas and constructions. It covers roughly 8 square miles, but the whole area still hides many unexcavated sites. We did manage to climb half of The Sun pyramid but then it was closed off, didn’t attempt ...
Today we go to Brazil.....
... it in, before TACA woman can take us back through customs and border security and to collect the bags and take us back into Mexico.
We go get a phone card (2 actually as the 1st one ran out) and call London (out of hours of course by now) and get onto someone at Flight Centre Emergency Contact who then tells us that the airline has stuffed it and they have to unlock the “status”.
So it is now 2.45 pm…. Remember that TACA closes ...
Only in Mexico
... avons commencer a boire. Pablo ma offer un peu de cannabis et nous avons jasser un peu sur la culture mexicaine. Je lui ai dit que nous allions a un party électro et lui aussi il y allait avec ses amis. Il m'a expliquer une particuliarité de la culture au Mexique, il y a très longtemps lors de la conquète espagnole, une princesse azteque aurait préféré la culture européene a la culture autochtone. Ceci aurait rendu la culture mexicaine, eurocentrique, classiste et sexiste. ...