How on Earth!! Reading your desciption I just had to check out the photos of the church. How do they build these things?? It never ceases to amaze me how clever people are. It's like some of the buildings we saw built on the side of the cliffs on the Amalfi Coast. Incredible!
It was worth the wait! This looks like my sort of town, love ruins....appears they took lessons from the Greeks, I see familar building styles, so cleaver.
tour of rum yes! that was good tour. I wrote this before we went through Central America, but there was some great rum there too - Flor de Caña (Nicaragua), Ron Abuelo (Panamá) and another guatemalan one I can't recall.
Love this stuff. Hi Adam and Klaire,
We, Gwen and I, just want to tell you how much we enjoy reading your blogs.
We especially like the style of Adams writing, he makes it very interesting, and, quite frankly, good reading, with comments like the one in this blog, referring to Wanie's text's, and the interesting comments about the Cuban Rum, plus many others.
" We both enjoy it very much ".
Gwen quite often gets me to read them out loud to her.
Keep up the good work, we believe that Adam has a gift, for good writing.
When reading your blogs, they often reminded us, of the movie, Julie and Julia.
Don't know if you have seen it or not, but it's a true story, about a blogger, who eventually, publishes, her blogs, into a book, which was made into a movie.
Love to you both,
Denis & Gwen
Thanks! “until we get to Victoria or die in Patria.” LMAO! Thanks, that was very funny. Great blog with very detailed explanations of the odds and sods of Cuba.
Hi Jo
The radish festival was a mystery to us until we googled apparently, nobody really knows how the radish carving festival started, although it is believed to have originated in 1897, when the then mayor of the Ox started the first exhibition of radish art. In the last century, markets during Christmas eve sold salt-dried fish and vegetables for customers coming out of the midnight mass. To differentiate the items from one another, vendors sculpted their radishes into tiny figures, sometimes even decorating them with other vegetables such as onions or lettuce. The radishes seemed to be a hit with the housewives then, as these women sought out the most interesting sculptures to add to the air of cheer to their Christmas tables. Every year since the first exhibition, the best displays receive cash prizes.
The normal radishes people eat here are the same size as the ones at home. They seem to leave some grow for a lot longer so that they are big enough to carve into bigger stuff. It was pretty cool.
Hope everything is good with you
K xx
I agree The crickets would have been good with some more crunch - maybe the pan wasn't hot enough. The other food more than made up for it though. Have to say that Mexican food is still the pick so far.
any reason why radishes? Just checking out the awesome pics of the radish carvings. Firstly impressed at how big their radishes must be in order to carve a rodeo scene (given, as you know, our home grown ones would only really let you carve the hat atop the rodeo man) but is there some particular significance given to the radish that makes them want to carve it or is it really just Mexico's answer to say clay/sand/metal?
Memories Mexico City seems like ages ago; thanks for the post. Agree about Frida's later art - liked a lot of her portraits though. Her house was very colourful and didn't need to be functional because she was rich and had servants to worry about things like that.
toys I think the idea is to beat the child with the giant smoke so it grows up to quake with fear when offered one as a young teen. Yep, I think the place was called Cocina Economica, that must be Marta. She was very nice, but then, so is most everyone.
Wheelie school bags I think they're just joining the section of the world population which is mutating so one arm stretches straight backward, the more easily to pull a wheelie bag, whatever their contents. They'll have to replace the cobbled streets with smooth concrete though. BTW liked the blog.
loving the entries - keep it up guys! Just had to say Adam and Klaire - loving the entries - they're a great lunch time break at the potato factory.
Also love the pics (the cigarette stuffed toys are great - should look for those online - sure someone is having a kid soon... :)) and just a question re the Cheap Eats in Morelia picture - is the place actually called 'Cucina Economica' (couldn't see the word before Economica). If so I like a place that knows what it is !
new rules man, he was good, and he could pick the ball up with his mouth - is that in the rules? I mean, it's not his hands, and he doesn't even have hands, so it's never handball.
Where is my money My name is Dieter. You welshed on the deal. I am coming to Australia and know your address. I am going to stay for 100 pesos worth. At your place that would be a week or perhaps two? Danke
Welcome to Coles’ New World - the amazingly imaginative titled account of the Coles’ trip to...the New World. And the Old World. And a bit of Asia.
If, like us, you’ve read any other travel blogs, you’ll know that we’re supposed to “quit our jobs!!!” and “all our friends told us we were crazy!!” and “my mom was crying and saying we’d have our faces sewn onto a soccerball in Mexico..”
Well, not for Aussies. Not uncommon, actually (although we’re not doing the year in the UK thing). Klaire’s a lawyer, so will get a new job no dramas (probably her old one back), I... full info
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How on Earth!!
Reading your desciption I just had to check out the photos of the church. How do they build these things?? It never ceases to amaze me how clever people are. It's like some of the buildings we saw built on the side of the cliffs on the Amalfi Coast. Incredible!