Hotel Terramar Tonala

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... drink it and it may be the last thing you will ever drink, but boil first and your safe from the bacteria they grew up with. The people that lived in this community still cook by fire at night. In the morning before escula (school) started we had a swarm of kids watching us eat, pack our tents and use stoves. All this was interesting for them, and fun for us to show them. Matt showed them photos on his iPod and tried to communicate our trip to them. I ...

... of an anticlimax as Chivas seemed content to defend their lead whilst occasionally pushing for the elusive fifth goal. The style of football here is pretty different from what you see in England. The players tend to dribble more and its not as physical as the average Premier League encounter. Furthermore, if this display was anything to go by, Mexican teams don't know how to defend properly. There could have been ...

... in the next blog post, once I collect all the fantastic picture people took last weekend.
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...

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 ...

Friday, 7 August, Day 195


New York City
After missing my flight and not sleeping for 24 hours, I was back at the New York airport waiting for a plane to MEXICO :)
At the airport an Italian guy talked to me. He looked gross, and it didn’t surprise me when he told me he was one of the bad guys from that movie about people smuggling, Taken. He was one of the people who got shot.
Within a few hours I was on the first of three flights which I ...

... No. 257, Tel: 01 (800) 8499174, Web: www.hotelgobernador.com . This large hotel is set in lovely grounds and has to be the nicest place to stay in town. The hotel offers plenty of colonial character and the spacious rooms offer everything that you would expect of a top end hotel. Their current rates were 990 peso for 1 or 2 persons.

... cial à voir et à entendre, puis au garde a vous pour l'hymne national mexicain, tous les mexicains présent portent la main sur leur coeur en signe de fidélite a leur pays. Apres l'hymne nationale, le groupe portant le drapeau sort de la salle, le drapeau est rangee dans une salle a proximité pour le lendemain matin car ca se repete chaque jour a 10 hre. Puis on visite guadalajara centro, on magasine, Claudette trouve du tissus nous aurons enfin des rideaux dans notre chambre et moi ...

... meme aujourd'hui dans les photos. Je me cherche une guitare, compte tenu que nous n'allons plus a mexico il aurait été d'un long détour de se rendre dans la ville de Paracho ou l'on fabrique des guitares pour en acheter une, alors peut etre ici sur le rue ou dans le centro de guadalajara lundi ou un autre jour de la semaine je trouverai ce que je cherche. Hier soir nous avons soupé dans un petit resto tout è coté, au menu pescado ...

We arrived here in the afternoon. First we were looking for Darinel´s family, the guy that got pneumonia and maybe Tuberculosis that was gonna come with us. He had sent some things, a DVD player, chainsaw, sewing machine and a small suitcase. But the thing is, neither Galación nor Bolívar knew where he lived. We did have a small poorly ...