Mexico
Travel expenses for the first 3 months of 2019
April 19, 2019I’ve tried different ways of documenting our travel expenses over the past 3 years with differing levels of success. So I’ve and decided that the best way forward is to produce a quarterly summary every 3 months. Here’s what we did, where we went and our expenses for the first 3 months of 2019. These […]
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A day exploring Teotihuacan
April 15, 2019I’ve always been fascinated by ancient civilisations and the monuments they’ve constructed over the millenia and centuries. Our visit to Mexico City presented an opportunity too good to miss to spend a day exploring Teotihuacan. This is the site of the Mesoamerican pyramids that are a one hour bus ride (and approx. 50 kilometres) north […]
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Monarch Butterflies – A Winter Holiday in Mexico
January 6, 2019Introduction Millions of Monarch Butterflies make an epic journey every year from the USA and Canada to Central Mexico. I had seen this natural spectacle on one of Sir David Attenborough’s natural history documentaries for the BBC many years earlier and it had always fascinated me. Whilst investigating how to fill in a two week […]
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2 days in Guadalajara
December 3, 2018We had a few days to fill in between house sits in Ajijic, Mexico. The second largest city in Mexico – Guadalajara, is just an hours bus ride away so we decided to spend 2 days in Guadalajara.
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