Casa del Mar
Travel Blogs from Zihuatanejo
Living it up on the day of the dead
... 8220;rescue” arrived and we got to hop on to another boat that took us back to the pier. Well, I was in good company and the evening was warm and beautiful, and the show certainly was not over!
Walking from the pier we found more friends and ended up walking in a precession of people carrying flowers, candles and other gifts to be sacrificed in memory of the souls of loved ones who are no longer with us. Songs were sung, but when the words of La ...
Is this really legal??
... chocolate diminish, revealing the soft white interior which fate was to have a party in my mouth… Chocolate dancing salsa with vanilla - uno, dos, tres!
Today I started with a jog along the canal and then I went shopping in the markets. There were flowers and food and people everywhere, more than usual as tomorrow is the big celebration of “Día de los muertos” – a Mexican holiday that is ...
Crime but no punishment
... it. (It didn’t occur to me at the stress of the moment that I have spare insulin-stuff with me). He handed me the injection, grabbed the rest of the bag, told me to carry on walking, as he took off where he had come from.
Slightly surprised at what had just happened I strolled along the rocks for a few minutes until I thought he was gone, then turned back because he’d run off with certain items I needed… I was pleased to find scattered on the path: ...
Cleaning my soul but keeping a dirty mind...
... out clothes and make-up and suggested we should dress up like two Fridas – as in two Frida Kahlos!!! We changed our clothes, a girl braided my hair and did my make-up, and out we went, giggling like two school-girls, before Lupita burst out singing Paloma Negra. I sang along where I could, just a few words, but to add up for lack of words, I added extra strength in PASSION!
A new friend of mine, Juan-Luis noticed that my eye-brows didn’t meet in the ...
Being deep and finding Jesus...
... br>
I am certainly aware of certain shallow “ideas” I have – such as worrying about being ugly in the mornings with no make-up, pillow prints on cheeks, face/body perhaps floating out like the eggs and clocks in a Salvador Dalí painting.
Or that if I was dating a guy and we went to the beach for the first time and it turned out he wore speedos (tangas), or a “banana-hamock”, I would have to end it there and ...