Hotel San Carlos Toluca

... was humming & I got some decent cheap local food in the market - handmade longaniza with nopal & chips - best meal in ages!! Great selection of interesting restauarants but big drawback is most don't open during the week as the village is mainly a weekend destination for rich Mexicans and the few that do certainly don't open early! Also ridiculously expensive, as are the hotels too! Early next morning ...

... rdigkeiten vorbeibringen soll. Leid** hat uns**e natürlich spanisch-sprechende Tourleit**in offensichtlich ein Maschinengewehr gefrühstückt. Sie spricht so schnell, dass wir fast nichts v**stehen. Was wir von ihren Erklärungen aufschnappen, ist auch eh** für Mexikan** int**essant - wo hat welche b**ühmte P**son mal ihr Haus in Cu**navaca gehabt etc. Bei einem kurzen Stopp d** Tour machen wir uns aus dem Staub und **kunden die Stadt doch lieb** wied** allein. Am Nachmittag geht ...

... They also make all sorts of water from fruits down here. You can get cantalope water, watermelon water. Basically anything you want. Today I had some good juice that was made from some type of flower. The worst food I´ve had was the chorizo. It´s pork in a sausage form. Bleck! 4. My biggest bargain was an amazing quesadilla with meat, flowers from pumpkins and cheese for a buck. It was as big as half a chipotle. The ...

... her chair under her scabby **** to sit at the table, felt the compulsion to sidle nearer to me as she did so! the only highlights of the meal were when i thought i saw 'chang' in the menu (turned out to be chard dammit) and when Am Dad said something sooo stupid it made Jo snort and spit out a bit of chicken which hit my elbow and nearly (oh so nearly!) laned in Taco's soup (shes a veggie). iv erased most of the evening from my memory for my own sanity but just to give ...

Day 2: Woke up at 6am this morning having stumbled into bed last night after a night of high altitude solo drinking. 3 coronas was enough to give me a slight dissyness while trying to drift off to sleep. I guess i should´'t feel too bad as i hadn't slept in 48 hours. Mexico city is interesting but not really my kind of thing, too busy/noisy/hectic, went to the anthropology museum today which was interesting, met a fellow ...

After packing and saying goodbyes at Patzcuaro, we headed through the surprisingly lush valleys and peaks and farmland (corn, agave, cows) the elevation gradually increased to over 9000 ft. So much of this day reminded us of Canada, with many pine trees (ponderosa pine though), and logging trucks. We arrived in Toluca at the park that was to be our home for the night. Many families were enjoying the lovely warm day ...

... skills, sign language came to my aid, again. Eating dinner, meeting a rathar strange spanish guy who kept babling about the bible and lots of other blah blah´s, sleeping was the best thing that could happen to me in that day. And again, waking up is not easy, having breakfast, and moving on since Mulege had nothing special to offer. I hitchiked again to a rathar large town called Loreto. A complete waste of time... stormy, ugly, grey town so this time i decided Im going for ...

... for at least 2 more years due to all the time I will be studying for my FRACP exams is a little daunting, though. This trip has also re-awakened a deep love of language in me. I studied German for 8 years in school (including an exchange program overseas) and then, as medicine commenced and priorities changed, my skill and interest faded. Well, learning Spanish rekindled the flames and now I can't wait to start leaning Japanese!!! My love of guitar is just a strong as ...

... crowd of tourists and Mexican to the pumping live music of reggae or rock. Transcending language barriers, everyone knows the lyrics to all of the music, because those guys are there every night doing the same awesome show ... and no one ever tires of it. Strangers dance together, lovers twirl each other around and new friends bounce up and down next to each other to the rhythms of the music. It is an experience that makes you glad to alive. I only hope that one day my ...

At the hospital we were supposed to see labor and delivery again, however apparently no one felt like having a baby this morning, so we spent our time rotating among other areas. First we went to ICU and saw a woman who had come in for a routine operation (at another hospital) and somehow developed several serious infections, which have since spread throughout her body. The nurse told us that the prognosis is not ...