On the bus ride out from the centre we picked up all sorts of randoms; playing traditional music, selling food, jewellary, all sorts, as we sped through the ever deterioting suburbs. Non-descip., grey, stone, half built houses - some built on steep slopes like the favellas of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. It´s a depressing sight and shows the vast contrast from the centre to the outskirts. On arrival at Teotihaucan I was initially struck by several things; the shear size of the place, the way tourists were massively outnumbered by school kids and finally that I had been a [View Full Entry]

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After one car ride, three train journeys, a bus, two planes and a taxi ride, I eventually arrived at the YWCA in Mexico City less one bag. Two questions might be asked from this first sentence. The first would probably go along the lines of: "Why is a 23yr old male Atheist staying at a YWCA establishment", to which my reply would be "it was the cheapest place I could find". The second question might be one of those ones people feel inclined to ask, forgetting that they are probably not all that interested in anything but a abreviated response. Hence [View Full Entry]

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I've got only two days go until my flight to Mexico City. Despite having spent some good chunks of time abroad before, every trip is very different in so many ways: destinations, finances available, objectives plus the experience of the previous trips. I believe I've gonethrough an evolutionary process over the course of my trips abroad in converging upon what I want to take from my time abroad and the best way in which to achieve this. This is a pretty important thing for most people to fathom - to reach the point where they know what they want to do [View Full Entry]

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