De La Soledad Morelia
Ignacio Zaragoza No. 90 Morelia, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, C.P. 58000, Mexico
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My weekend in Mochoacan
Oh man. What a weekend! I am trying to think of everything that happened. Let me think in order of how things went and if I go backwards, I am sorry (lo siento). Okay, so we left right after classes at noon thirty ish for the state of Michoacan. We were going to be staying in the capital city of Morelia. Little did I know that Morelia is AMAZING. …
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Intimacy, JC and a sandwich
... close to xmas and it all feels a little surreal. With temperatures running into the 80's in the day and no prospect of snow or need of scarves and coats my whole concept of xmas is having a mildly forced revision at the moment. The Mexicans are very big on the nativity; each town has some type of display, often life size, depicting a very conventional scene. I'm not too sure how I am going to feel on the day
Book of the Moment: Life of Pi - traded it with ...
Pig.
... experience, andI am slightly appalled at the apparent lack of hygiene at the many butchersstands. Every kind of meat you can askfor lies open, uncovered and at the mercy of insects on tiled stone slabs. Pigs heads hanging from their ownentrails. Cow heads stacked in rows. I even spot a horse, or what was left ofit. The fact that you ate cooked foodnot too ...
Storm chasers.
... hurricane, with some driving rain and high winds hampering our progress.
It wasn’t until nightfall that we pulled into the town, and started to feel the real Mexico. Colonial stone buildings and long, narrow, lamp lit streets greeted us, and I was aware for the first time of a sense of history. We found our host, Andres, in the centre of the town, in a large, student flat. The welcome was warm, as was the much needed ...
Feliz 469 años!
... and took the form of music and dance shows leading up to a huge parade the following night. In the square were some traditional dancers, men and boys, dressed up in robes and old man masks with large ribboned hats. On their feet they wore wooden sandals and tapped out tunes to music, banging their walking sticks on the floor. Very bizarre, but impressive! We went back to our hotel and although we had an unleaky toilet, we had the most ...



