Holiday Inn Select Guadalajara

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... twice more to make it 4-1 before it was even half time! Chivas' third goal came from a rare indirect free kick inside the penalty area, after dangerous play from an Atlas defender. I managed to capture the goal along with the ensuing celebrations on video, which partly conveys a sense of the incredible atmosphere inside the stadium.<br><br>Inevitably the second half failed to live up to the opening onslaught; it was ...

... in the next blog post, once I collect all the fantastic picture people took last weekend. <br> Meanwhile, I´m going to share an aspect of Guadalajara that I´m particularly enamoured with: street life. Unlike back home, streets here are more than just a conveyance from one place to another. They house a vibrant informal economy, peddlers of everything from windshield wipers, 30 ...

I write this at 3.30am, having just had my sleep interrupted once again. Not by gunshots, sirens, nor even the incessant train horn that deafens us on a daily basis. No, this was something much worse. Normally I can deal with pretty much any insect aside from spiders, but the last few nights have given me some new creatures to worry about...<br><br>It began three nights ago, just as I was about to go to bed. I reached for my washbag, only to sense a sudden movement ...

... of Tequila and Mariachis it is still a distinctly Mexican city.<br><br>On the first weekend I took a walk with Isobel and a few of the Americans down the railway tracks near our house. After about half a mile we reached a shanty town next to the line, where we spoke with a few of the local inhabitants. One was a former gang member from East Los Angeles, who had been deported from America and was living estranged from his family there. His story was just one of many ...

... lesson. <br> A little on the American&#8217;s I have met so far on my travels: So far, it seems most of the American&#8217;s I have met have not been like the ones I had the displeasure of working with and talking to in London. In fact, most of them have been lovely. What makes them different is the fact that a number have chanted &#8220;USA USA&#8221;, which is so lame, and also that most, but not all, that I have met seem a victim of their media. I met one lass ...

... food was a delicous and endless, the Tequila flowed. Again. And everyone hit the dancefloor from Grandmothers to kids. Again, everyone without exeption made an enormous effort to make us feel welome. Finally a rest day... a civilized Sunday lunch by the lake with Maria from Italy whose been living in Playa del Carmen on Mexico's Caribbean coast for 12 years. She is really good fun and we'll be seeing her again when we hit Playa. Then ...

... to a hostel the next day. Trying to find a hostel appeared quite hard as all websites said they were booked out for that night. We decided to go to one of the hostels that was close by in person to see if there was any beds, and our luck was in! The hostel itself is very nice. Massive building, very close to the city centre, and the people seemed really nice too. Once settled, we decided to meet some of our room mates, and we were lucky to get a mixed bag of ...

... to head off to school. I had to walk for about 10mins to the bus stop outside Gigante along Avenida Circunvalacion. Buses 50, 51, 52 and 54 went my way. The buses are deafening! They are so loud that when they pass by, you have to stop your conversation. Anyway, climbing on board was difficult sometimes as they were tightly packed with moustached coyboys and pretty girls, paying the 5 pesos (50c) was cheap and if you get a seat ...