La Puerta Roja Inn
Travel Blogs from Alamos
Dia de Muertos and Acapulco
... of academic study and just spend more time learning the language and finding out more about what life is like for the majority of people living in Mexico.
Okay so regarding food…..well I have not really experienced too much that is new, apart from the ceviche in Acapulco and “pan de muertos” which is the traditional bread you see everywhere at this time of the year which is to do with “the Day ...
Taxco
The overnight bus worked out well for Tom and James who slept most of the journey, not so well for Helen who had fidgety legs and spent most of the journey with her legs up in the air, not easy in a tight space. The journey had over a hundred speed bumps and I think Helen was woken up by each of them. We arrived in Acapulco at about 7am to some good news – the Taxco bus left from the same station and there was one leaving in 40 minutes, just enough time ...
Beetle buzzing Taxco
... guide was very friendly though and took us to his daughter in laws silver stall which was nice. On the way back to the hotel we saw a school carnival they were different groups of schoolchildren representing a different country. They were led by a car with the two main children on the top and then a group of followers behind them, my favourite group was the one representing Afghanistan. To represent it they just had a machine gun on the ...
Just an update...nothing exciting!
... sitting in the sunshine having a coffee with one of the Danish guys (from the castle where I attended my first party!). It just felt so relaxed chatting and being joined by various other people from time to time as they passed by on their way to or from classes. It was reassuring to hear him say that he doesn’t want to go out partying the whole time as he feels he needs to focus on studying. I had just assumed it was because I am a bit ...
Time to Play
... it might be possible to go without spending hours travelling but was far enough away to escape the city. It seemed that Taxco fitted the bill. Rachel was keen to get away too so between us we figured out how we could travel there and managed to book a room. The only thing we could have managed better was to book the bus ticket in advance because we had to wait a couple of hours at the bus station for a bus that had availability. But that was fine ...
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