Blogs from Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America - page 5

Woke up early, to wind and sun! After having a bite to eat, decided to go for a swim at the beach before getting stuff ready for the wedding. Meg asked Nancy to help out with decorating the arbour after Mark built it! Mark was up and working on it while Meg and Mary were having a manicure and pedicure on the terrace! At the same time, chairs were being set up, with white covers and bows, the bar cleaned and decorated, flowers being arranged, food being cooked, luminarios set up along the path....as Nancy and I called the day, the hurry up and wait! Finally the arbour was completed and Nancy, Jeanie and Hattie started decorating with white glads and the tulle Nancy carried from Kingston! And did I mention the wind???? A very windy ... read more

Right now, no pictures, will post when I get home and receive pictures from other folks. Thursday, 7 of the guys went really early to go fishing with Martin. Just as 6 of us were getting ready to walk over to the surfing store for our lesson, a call came in the boys were soon to arrive on the beach with a marlin they just caught! Our villas were buzzing with excitement! After heading over to the surf shop and finding out our lesson would be down on our beach, we headed down...and there were the guys! The marlin weighed over 100 kg..and close to 6 feet long! It took all of the guys to reel him in...and to bash him over the head with a bat a few times (now can you imagine the girls ... read more

Tuesday, up early and to walk along the beach at the other resort! Spectacular! Except I left my memory chip back on the terrace, so no pictures of our walk with Jeannie and Barry! We arrived at the other resort, as Meg and Dave, Barry and Melissa and Tom were playing tennis and the Tennis Veil and Tennis tuxedo were given to the bride and groom! (pictures we will be added when we can figure out how to get off other cameras!). A day of shopping, setting home up, and waiting for the sunset (so Nancy and I can make Margaritas). At last the time came for margaritas, and thanks to Justin (Hattie's husband), Nancy made a pretty wicked Margarita for the sunset. Meg and Dave also were trying out some champagne, which we tried as ... read more

Puerto Escondido After 6 days in beautiful Oaxaca, culminating in our succesful completion of not having more than one diarrhoeal episode within 24 hours within the first 17 days of our trip (there is a clue within that long and boring sentence), we decided to head for the Pacific coast, in particular to Puerto Escondido, a small port town with a few lovely beaches. We took the 6 hour mini-bus via the windy mountain route (as opposed to the 10 hour coach down straighter roads route) which provided incredible scenery. The climate changed many times, from arid dusty hills to thick cloud forest, to what looked to be jungle (and reminded us both of Malaysia) to pine forest as we went up and down and up and down (and round and round and round). The journey ... read more

Drove quite a bit the past couple of days, and found some nice cheap places to stay on the beach! Stayed just outside of Papanoah, next to a restaruante and pluged in... they said they just wanted a tip for staying the night! We thought it would be polite of us to go and have dinner at the restaruant for such nice hospitality.... were sure glad we did!! Fresh seafood... they catch it right out front of the restaurant!!! We all really enjoyed it. Drove south along the coast and went through a tunnel in Acapulco, a navigational error that ended up costing $500 pesos in tolls...oops. We saw a car accident, and the people don't move to the side. They just get out of their vehicles and wait for the federals to come and arrest ... read more