Best Western Taxco

Our first stop after Mexico city was a town called Puebla. Just in case you are planning a trip to Mexico, don't bother going to Puebla. Although they do have a great vegetarian cafe. We went there for lunch on the first day. One of our group was a baker from Sweden who was rather odd. He couldn't cope with being in a vegetarian restaurant at all, said he found it "very difficult" and ran out. The local speciality there is called 'mole poblano'. Mole is basically sauce which they pour ...

... 5 bucks and had a bit of banter with a couple from Argentina before finally heading back to the digs for a snooze. Skipped the free food but went to the bar to meet my new French amigos to meet the couple from last night but they failed to show. We were all quite relieved actually and they had bought some tequila that day as a gift for the couple so we got stuck into that, it wasn´t shot stuff though it was good stuff with honey in, really nice. I managed to convince the 2 ...

... our host a a snooker pub, but he wasnt there. There was an internet place downstairs from the snooker hall. We went down to try to e-mail him, or to look for a hostel. It turned out that Enriques family owned the building, the bar and internet on the ground floor, snooker hall on the second, and lived on the third floor, thats where we would be staying. Enriques sister called him and he arrived shortly after in a big Chev pick-up truck. He said he was taking us ...

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... to a very small road, with a sign labeled 'Taxco'. Well, it wasn't on my map or the GPS (BTW, my little $250 Garmin GPS has most main Mexican roads on it which has been great), but it was a little red line on Jesse´s better map. We pulled over. I said that I wasn't sure about this road and I just hit reserve so had about 45 miles left, and had (of course) drained my extra gallon gas can into the tank that ...

... personally I think this is a fancy name for sexist and/or macho guys which are everywhere) men carry their novia's (girlfriend's) or esposa's (wife's) purses, hijas (daughters) pink sparkly backpacks, push the strollers and carry babies in pink slings. Not to say that all is equal, far from it. Every street corner has a magazine stall with porn galore mixed in with typical magazines. No hiding it, your three year old will see some ...

... with 45 pound on your back. I slept like the dead the night I was there. The city has lots of winding cobblestone streets with a very Moorish feel to the architecture. Everything is whitewashed and clean and I can only imagine how wonderful this place must have been when hooved animals roamed these pathways rather than the VW bug. The sounds must have been incredible. The marketplace ...

... on the roof terrace. All you can drink (Sweet Jesus). Sept. 15th - Zacatecas (Mexico) Felt well rough this morning so a late rise. Walked up to the cable car station (they have a small cable car that crosses the city and ends at a hill with a view). They were closed because of the days celebrations so walked to the Mask Museum ($2). The museum has an amazing collection of Mexican masks from friendly to scary to just plain weird. Spent a good few hours there. Had a cheap ...

... the crockery from the ships onto the bull drawn buggies, the bulls completely went ****en ballistic and that's how bullfighting originated. it was not until 1703 that one of the villagers back in villahermosa, lopeztapec cepatzepol, ate one of the dinner plates. the tale goes that in order to avoid his duties of washing the taco plates in the village diner, lopeztapec would consume the small, round, soft bread plates one by one. he was captured and hung under the laws ...