I belive last time I write I was in San Cristobal de las Casas. Since then the route has been... 1. Palenque 2. Flores, Guatemala 3. Shampoo-Champagne (Semuc Champay), Guatemala 4. Rio Dulce, Guatemala 5. Livingston, Guatemala (The current location) The night we left San Cristobal more people came to populate the dormitory, which made the scary old man in the corner, who could have passed as Santa if only he had a red suit, slightly less wierd in that we didn´t have to make conversation everytime we were in there at the same time! Someone (might have been me) decided [View Full Entry]

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So here I am, back in Mexico, with my backpack on my back (all 15kgs of it) and the wind blowing the wrong way for the sun to shine at me! I hate the cold! Brr its like September in England when I have to control myself against putting on my scarf and gloves 2 months too early! Athough saying that the sun is actually shining as I type! Woohoo! I managed to do absolutely nothing at all interesting or cultural in Mexico city on Monday except use the internet for 2 hours in 2 seperate internet cafes, for fear of [View Full Entry]

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This intrepid traveller is back on the road and the latest destination was...Cuba! I have to admit I went knowing practically nothing about Cuba except that it is in the Caribbean and the USA doesn´t much like it. Well you can say that again! I wanted to go for the "culture" something of which the Lonely Planet speaks highly of. I have come to realise that when the Lonely Planet bigs up a place for the "culture" that means there´s nothing there. La Habana is, or was, a very beautiful city. The buildings are amazing, but it has the feeling of [View Full Entry]

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Last week was the week of the Fiesta. It all began on Sunday in Ixcatapec with Barbacoa at Adrian´s house (oh my Spanish addled brain had a problem with writing that, it wants to say the casa of Adrian) which is meat, in this case lamb, or possibly horse we were told (joke) is cooked in a pit Ray Mears style and it is yummy! Ali, his young nephew and one of the becarios was so pleased we were there and told everyone all week that we went to his house for the fiestas and that I had 2 beers and [View Full Entry]

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I feel like I have a lot of time to catch up on since I last wrote although in fact nothing MUCH has happened. After I went to Oaxaca city I got a night bus to travel the 8 hours to the coast to a wee place called Zipolite. It was so beautiful and so perfect it was as though Disney made it! Although if Disney had made it, it would have been deadly expensive and there would definately have been hot water in my hotel. Still for $80 who´s complaining! The sea was blue, the sand was white, the beach [View Full Entry]

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I´ve escaped!!!! (Hahaha not really!) We have a super dooper mega long weekend this week thanks to the Dia del Niños (yesterday), Dia del Trajabo (today), a random day to bridge the gap (tomorrow) and it being the 5th of May on Monday...almost as special in Mexico as the 16th Spetember as I can gather. Unfortunately the Battle of Puebla sounds so boring I haven´t had the will power to read up about it and find out exactly WHY we have this fantastic spate of holidays. On Tuesday the Dia del Niño celebrations in the camp were fantastic. It was all [View Full Entry]

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Good day loyal fans of mine, fear not, here comes the latest thrilling installment in the tales of Lizzie´s Mexican Adventure (on a computer that understands apostrophies!!) Wow-wah-woo-wah! Firstly, boring camp stuff...actually not so boring! We have graduated from Matias´school of raking, after whinging to James when he came about how boring it is, and have now been promoted to...PAINTING! So we´ve spent the last month´s Wednesdays painting over the old peachy pink in...more peachy pink! Still not quite finished and I´m scared of the tall ladders, actually I´m scared of the small ladders, I don´t really want Mexico to be [View Full Entry]

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Acapulco...town of chickens on the beach! I have to admit its not my favorite place. By a long shot! Its extremely humid for one! But more importantly its dirty, its ugly, its polluted and there is FAR too much traffic! Even the old town doesnt have that much charm...the zocalo is reasonable but the markets are horrible, its bad enough being harssed to buy something at every step but having it done in English really irritates me! If I were a rich cruise ship passenger and stopped off there, or Id flown all the way from Europe for the holiday of [View Full Entry]

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First Ill start with the bad news. It is VERY hot here now! I thought it was just Guadalajara but every day here gets hotter! Certaintly no need for 3 blankets nowadays, and Im beginning to wonder why I brought 2 pairs of jeans! With the heat comes biting and crawling and generally wierd beasties. Firstly cockroaches...UGH they make me sick...I had been lucky enough in my life have never witnessed one before I went to Lanzarote last year and then I was disgusted! Here they seem to think theyre welcome in our cabaña with us. Back in the day before [View Full Entry]

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Having escaped the fiasco that was Manzanillo and its hotel room situation we travelled onto Colima, the capital of the state of the same name. By Mexican standards its quite a small little town and it has had quite a lot of earthquakes so there isnt any of the colonial building business. However it makes up for it with some very pretty squares, which are full of plants and flowers and fountains and benches and in the evening stalls and a band. It also has the standard 5 Mexican streets, to be found in every town village and megalopolis; Morelos, Juarez, [View Full Entry]

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