As we prepare to fly out of this crazy country we call Mexico, it feels like we’ve already left. Not because of some ethereal high-brow poetic concept, simply because Cancun feels nothing like any shade of Mexico we’ve seen. In short, if there was a god, and if he was the interventionist type, you’d say […]
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While you were working – Unearthing a gem
We’re winding up our time in Mexico now and we leave behind a relatively small town called Tulum. Relatively small in that it is in close proximity to Cancun, Playa Del Carmen and Cosumel, far more noted tourist destinations. We came for a few nights and stayed over a week, it turned out to be […]
While you were working – A day at the beach
We contacted the local fire brigade and paramedics for this one, Charles Philip Winn was going to go to the beach and expose that luscious ranga pigment (or lack thereof) to the tropical sun. In the face of a very realistic fear that he was going to burst into flame like a vampire in cheesy […]
While you were working – San Christóbal de las Casas, Chamula township
Woop woop woop, do you hear that? it’s the hypocrite alarm. This alarm is often found near white middle class people travelling and commenting on local ethics. It’s particularly loud when we see a single week of tourism justifying the resolution of issues in a culture tens of thousands of years old. Ok that preamble […]
While you were working – Sierra Norte part 1
Ok it’s…. who the hell knows what day it is, and who cares, we’re off hiking. This does mean an early start (by normal circumstances, a hideous time by ours) so at, wait for it, 6am we get up… disaster! Through dead empty city streets we trudge, it seems Mexico has appropriate waking times sorted, […]
While you were working – mondayitis
So just to quell any speculation that all were doing is going to the pub and eating food… Today we go back to school in an attempt to develop some decent level of Spanish. That’s right you gallery of miscontent, we’re working hard for the money. But we’re not even being paid, these little post […]
While you were working – Mexico City
As we leave Mexico City we’re feeling officially like we’re getting into this trip. To be honest it’s been quite a haze of jetlag and aforementioned chilli induced shit-a-thon. But the question is… Does Mexico City get the thumbs up? The answer is simply a big yes! In planning this trip we quite consciously avoided […]
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