Travel makes you smarter.
I like you, do you wanna play? We only spent one moldy night puking in the terrible Santa Lucia Hostel and packed up our stuff Thursday morning to head down the way to the Nomadas Hostel. On the way Steven spotted something else, a guest house across the street with a cute little sign: “Casa [...]
Purple happiness People were really going crazy. Between the nakedness and the free stuff, even the rain couldn’t rain on their parade, so to speak. Arms outstretched and wide-eyed the flocks waited for little advertising trinkets flying off the passing floats: empty cups with huge beer insignia, plastic tubes filled with air and adorned with [...]
Viva el carnaval! Today the streets filled up with people dressed in traditional Yucatecan clothes – women wearing huilipes (traditional dresses) with flowers in their hair and men dressed all in white. Other styles of dresses and costumes also made their appearance and there was a happy, festive atmosphere everywhere we went. It seemed that [...]
Happy despite it raining on their parade The Desfile de Bachata (Party Parade) flew through the city with the rain. It was pleasantly cool in the morning and the drizzle started shortly before noon. It rained moderately yet constantly throughout the whole parade and the sky cleared up just as the colorful troops were out [...]
Tired feathered angel Zoe went out to the parade and met our wonderful hosts there, Miriam and Enrique, who waved her over and gave her a nice seat in the first row to get some good pictures. Carnival is a worldwide celebration of excess and craziness celebrated particularly by Christians and most famously in the [...]
Little sweetie at the Mérida carnival Mérida will be hosting a week-long series of colorful and happy parades and fiestas beginning last night with the Quema del mal humor (The burning of bad humor) to get everyone off to a happy start. The Mérida carnival is advertised in the local tourist magazines as one one [...]
You are beautiful my darling As we were leaving the hotel today around noon we could hear rhythmic salsa music coming from down the street and we looked at each other and said to ourselves: “Another lovely Sunday of fiesta music & dancing in Mérida.” Santa Lucia park is a couple blocks away but still [...]
Yummie street corns Mexico is corn king number four: the fourth biggest producer, the fourth biggest consumer and apparently the fourth biggest exporter of corn in the world, The United States of North America being numero uno. Corn is mostly eaten here in Mexico as tortillas, round flat paddies. Almost every dish in Mexico is [...]
Chilling after a long day Merida loop – day 5: Ticul is a sweet little town. We’ve got a decent hotel for a good price, 220 pesos (US$18). Our muscles are a bit tired from cycling so we need the extra day of rest to stay healthy, we are not the fastest tourists on bicycles [...]
The great Jano Some three days ago while Zoe was surfing the net in the courtyard of our hotel, Our host, Miriam, approached with a Mexican cyclist. He was tall, friendly and spoke good English. Alejandro turned out to be a great person, extremely honest and generous… so generous in fact, that he loaned Zoe [...]
