Camino Real - Guadalajara

... appreciated. Please contact us by the e-mail pamericas.brasil@gmail.com if you have questions or if are able to contribute with the Project.<br><br> Visit the oficial Project Americas website at www.pamericas.com.br

This weekend I finally got round to seeing some live football in Mexico. I'd been meaning to go for ages but in the end this was a game worth waiting for. It was "El Clasico" - the local derby between Guadalajara's two biggest teams, Atlas and Chivas. I went with Isobel and Oswaldo, one of our Mexican friends who had taken us to Lake Chapala a few weeks ago. <br><br>Estadio Jalisco is a really impressive 70,000 capacity ...

Just got back from a fantastic (and sleepless) weekend in Guanajuato, a beautiful colonial city perched on a steep ravine about four hours by bus from Guadalajara. We visited the Cervantino Festival (named after Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote), saw tons of concerts, met many new people, ate some delicious food, and saw at least one sunrise from the top of the city. More about ...

... light in time to identify my assailant as a fair sized cockroach! However, by the time I grabbed a shoe to batter it with, the ****er had disappeared beneath my wardrobe.<br><br>I have since become somewhat paranoid. Where will it crawl next time I sleep? Not my face? Or will I awake to find a scorpion in my bed or a tarantula spinning its web around me? Tonight I'll be applying plenty of insect repellent before bed and sleeping with a loaded gun beneath the pillow...

... everyday from 9 til 1pm, but the afternoons are free for us to do whatever we please. Directly in front of our house is a small park with courts where I've been playing a bit of football and basketball with the local kids who gather there each night. I've also joined the CEPE football team here. After barely scraping together 11 players for our opening game we were a tad unfortunate to squander a 2-0 lead and lose 3-2. Another new activity for me was going horse riding for ...

... abusive crowd I had ever seen. The crowd was divided into two, the Pobre (poor) up the top with the cheap tickets, and the rich, and the rich who had slightly more expensive tickets would sit on the bottom. No one there was necessarily poor or rich, it just depends where you want to watch from, the top with the view or the bottom close up. Gorgina, the girl who I was with always went up the top. She had the same shirt many of those up the top had which read &#8220;1000 ...

... buy one get one free Mojito it is equivalent to £1.75 OMG lucky I am not drinking (much). The food in Mexico is nice and spicy, but can be a bit greasy as a lot is fried - yuck. The hostel I am staying in had a problem with the water being cut off due to roadworks and was without water for 30 hours! Don't think anyone could smell much in the hostel as most people have colds! Lots of love Tracey xxx

... En entrée quesadillas aux pétales de roses et au coulis de fraise, puis du saumon au safran avec des nopales (cactus). Je n'ai jamais vu un service aussi pourri : il m'ont retiré le plat de la bouche pour me filer l'addition! Pourtant j'étais quasiment toute seule dans le resto... Lundi prochain c'est la rentrée des classes ici, tous les gamins achetaient leurs uniformes ...

... and quite the selection of pharmaceutical products. Oh....did I mention Mexico has a bit of a drug problem?? So I got to the bus station, almost missed the bus ´cause I wasn´t paying attention, then had a nice chat with Ulysses about Mexico etc. I went to sleep around 11, and woke up around 5, although I ended up sleeping with my knees pulled up into my sweater because it was so damn cold on the bus ...

... I also met one of my cousin´s ..... guy she´s talking to, and he´s paumpous. He's all "I worked in the US for a while, I have so much money that i literally give it away i don´t know what to do with it". Who says this? Looser. I went home, did laundry and headed out to Guadalajara to see family. My godmother answered the door and she was like, "yes?". I had to tell her who i was because she didn't recognize me. I look the same as five years ago, don't i? Anyways, i saw my godfather ...