Real De Antequera Oaxaca

FLUO EST AU MEXIQUE !!

En ce joli Samedi d'Octobre direction la ville voisine de Cuernavaca (1h de Mexico en autobus), dans l'Etat de Morelos. Beaucoup d'habitants du DF (District Federal = ville de Mexico) possèdent une maison secondaire ici où ils viennent passer les week end et les vacances loin du chaos.

La ville est très colorée, il n'y a pas 2 facades de maison de la même couleur ...

... you walk into a "locals" bar and you are not a known face that left us doing the normal cheesy grin to every one to try and give ourselves a friendly group welcome... this fell on blank looks but what the hell it was too hot to go back out at least we had a bona fide Mexican with us (i should explain at this point saydee is whiter than me). So with bee lined it to a free table all the same and every one else seemed to go back to whatever they were doing. The beers went down as good as ...

... times better than those I took of Luke, so I'm proud of my improvements. The setting for the pictures was some of the old hotels and cathedrals in downtown Oaxaca, and it really got me wishing Westerville wasn't quite so... boring. I'll have to check with Hannah before I plaster pictures of her up all over the internet, but if she's OK with it, I'll post some of the better pictures on here for you to look at. I know this was a short update, but ...

... in the historic district of Oaxaca. Oaxaca is a very european city,  with stone paved streets, French, Italian and Mexican restaurants and, judging from the paintings hanging in the hotel lobby and restaurants, a fllourishing artist community. We went to bed with plans of visiting the Monte Alban pyramids and ruins in the morning....

We got up in the morning covered in bug bites.  The  morning bath in the ocean with its strong waves and undertow helped clean out the wounds and the visitor who came to share his morning smoke with us also helped tremendously. We stopped in San luis de ___ and met up with Maya and Andy who are traveling from Scotland (shipped their bike with sidecar to SC and rode from ...

... be doing some good! Hot chocolate is the way to go - yummy! Despite the quantity of sheep (borrega) and goats in the hills you never see it on a menu, though chapulines (grasshoppers) often feature, you get toasted ants in your salsa (very tasty) and, if you don't get the worm in your mezcal, don't worry, it is served with worm salt anyway! Strawberries and passionfruit are in season here and, you know me, I won't be going short of good food!

The salsa lessons have been ...

... for children to study Mexican culture - both Hispanic and Zapotec. You'd never believe from the outside, even when the building was new in the late 1800s, that it was designed as a factory! The edifice shouts "ACADEMIC", or "STATEHOUSE" without a dome. A factory seems out of place in these green hills anyway. The bathrooms, (well, the one for Mujeres), were so beautiful in how the light flowed in. The sinks consisted of several ...

There are two ways to travel in Mexico. Or you can take a direct and expensive bus or for the same journey, take about 4 or 5 buses, spend twice the time but save half of the money. You will hve guessed, we chose the second option. So we travelled all day and stopped over in the middle of nowhere really, so we could carry on the next day and reach Acapulco.

... our sympathy level for them (in turn shelling out more money), or were they really praying for a high probability of loss of their lives. When you think of the latter, you definately end up shelling out more money. The food was beautiful: fajitas, enchiladas, pina coladas, salsa, quesidillas!! 100% All Natural restuarant....veggies: highly recommend it!

Taxco is the silver capital of mexico... I think it may have been gems idea to go there... we went to many shops, and were witness to one of the craziest religious ceremonies I have ever seen... not that I have seen that many. not judging the ceremonies, mind you, but I don't think that it was really our cup of tea.