Hostal Pochon Oaxaca

... are familiar with Tottenham thanks to Giovani Dos Santos, one of the star players of the current Mexican national team.

One evening after dinner we decided to go for a drink, but instead ended up in a small supermarket downing shots of Mezcal. Mezcal is a local spirit made from the same cactus plant as tequila. Instead of lime and salt it is served with orange and chili, which for me makes it a much more bearable drink. We had been called over by the vendor called Michael who ...

... How wonderful to have a siesta in the afternoon. Neal read, I slept! Then we went out to explore our new neighborhood. The church is about three blocks away, (since I wrote that we have discovered literally ten churches in our neighborhood), small shops and cafeterias abound, and at one corner where we were waiting for the light to change I turned around and saw the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca (ICO) http ...

... out to be a photographer for Rough Guide. He had just traveled up through Central America from Peru and he was armed to the teeth with useful tips that will come in very handy as we travel south. On Friday we decided to head for the coast but stopped off on the way so that we could join in the celebrations. Oaxaca is in a valley surrounded on every side by mountains. The coach journey here took six hours and the views where ...

Hello everyone! I'm back home and couldn't be happier. I had an amazing time in Oaxaca and one of the best experiences of my life! The last couple of days in Oaxaca I didn't do anything too special, just the normal of attending school, napping, and then meeting of with friends at night. On Monday at school we got a ton of new students in about 40! There was a group of 30 people from Portland on a school trip, they were mostly young ...

... of town. Unfortunately the main square was overrun by a whole heap of teachers protesting over pay & they had set up 100īs of tents there as part of a sit in. From the look they had been there a few days! Quiet night with our first venture on eating off the street from a friendly little fulla selling us some tacos. Becs 27/5: Up early today to attend a cooking class http://www.laolla.com.mx/Oaxaca/sabores 1.htm. There was ...

Sorry it has taken so long between posts, but life had been very relaxing and un-eventful until last week. I finished three weeks of school, and at the end was completely wiped out. I had flashbacks to piano lessons 10 years ago with my friend, Rosamond, in Statia. She was sure I could learn to play a concert of 4 songs with just 10 days of lessons. Ultimately, she was right, but I had two major crying beakdowns ...