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On my birthday it was a very special day, we woke up and dad started making pancakes and then we went upstairs and opened the presents. I got some lego, a sheath for my knife, a wooden F18 jet fighter, two balls , a jaguar’s head, an art book and much more. After school IContinue reading “Mexico San Cristobal de las Casas – The Start to a New Year”

We have arrived here in San Cristobal and it’s a lovely town with colours everywhere. Our house is sooooo small and it only has 2 bedrooms and a kitchen . It also has a ginormous garden with 3 dogs. One of the dogs’ names is GInger and she’s a soppy dog that doesn’t do anything. However sheContinue reading “Mexico – San Cristobal- Our Ginormous Garden”

Turtles swimming in the cenote We just flew in to Mexico from Miami. In Miami I saw the fattest man ever. He was just sooooo fat, his arms, his legs, everything. Anyway we arrived in the airport in Cancun which was so touristy that we had to drive to Tulum straight away!  We arrived hotContinue reading “Mexico Tulum – Mouths Wide open”

Beautiful embroidery, identical to Otovalo. So where does it come from? Rumours here is that embroidery takes place in China Sunday is the day of markets in all the local villages and we head to Chamula, on horseback.  When I last came here, as a 12 year old, Chamula was a beautiful white church surroundedContinue reading “Mexico 5 – San Cristobal de Las Casas – The Church at San Juan Chamula – a different sort of service”

One of the great things about travelling like this is the wonderful people we meet. The property in which we are staying has another small house at the bottom of the garden. So far it’s been empty, but the day before Gabriel’s birthday party, a couple arrive to rent it who we quickly get toContinue reading “New friends, new house, new skills”

It’s Gabriel’s birthday today. Although Janet’s house is less than perfect, I am getting used to it, It helps knowing that we can move to somewhere better in a few weeks time. Anyway in the meantime, we are making full use of her fabulous garden. Combining forces with our Michigan friends, who are here alsoContinue reading “Mexico 4 – San Cristobal – Pinatas and Pizza”

We’ve been to many incredible markets on this trip so far, so it’s easy to get blasé. But the market in San Cristóbal is fabulous. It’s a heaving mass of people, with incredible colours, sounds and smells. As you enter the market, there are people selling boiled or roasted sweetcorn and others with barrows piledContinue reading “Bike rides and birthdays”