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December 19th 2010

Published: December 19th 2010

My mum always set great store by the entry to a house. A proper entry was vital. It needed to be welcoming and give a good impression but without necessarily letting someone you didn't know straight into your living space. Some countries could take a lesson from my mum. We crossed three borders in the last week, all different. With the UK we were leaving and, apart from the loss of our spending ... Read Full Entry

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Slowfeet

Our travels over the years have often sought out those places that we haven't yet experienced. We have loved chasing new places, but there is a change underway. We continue to enjoy experiencing other cultures along with their food, beverages, history and ways of life but now, having a little more freedom, we will also make more effort to seek out out such things as music events and festivals, particular natural attractions that we have missed and places where we can better appreciate the history of a place and its people. The attraction of the road less travelled and the place less visit... full info

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Christmas Lights at the Hotel

Courtyard of the Hotel Jardin Central in Chihuahua

Even plain government buildings

get decorated

Nativity scene, Chihuahua

The nativity scenes in Mexico are quite lavish. The pool here has a fountain at one end

In Pancho Villa's courtyard

Now a museum, this was a very nice house

Pancho Villa's last car

He was in this when he was assassinated

In the park

Chihuahua

19th December 2010

Sarah
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Glad you made it!
I'd suspect Mum too. Those teeny tiny half Japanese women are often 6 foot 4 terrorists in disguise.

19th December 2010

Andrew
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Not for tourists
Well I don't think I ever claimed Houston was a tourist city but just about anywhere else in the city would have been better than downtown. A couple of miles south of the station is the museum district where your day would have been a bit more pleasant and interesting. Not a shopping mall in sight. We used to live just to the west of there. Pat's CBP experience reminded me of a very similar experience about 20 years ago when I arrived at passport control to be told that I was a prohibited person and then ushered into a small ïnterview room where I had to come up with some other way of proving my identity. But it wasn't the US - it was Melbourne.

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