(Continued from “Vamos a México! Part IV: San Cristobal”) DAY 11 – OAXACA, MONTE ALBÁN, ARRAZOLA, CUILAPAN AND COYOTEPEC The darkness outside the bus was slowly starting to give way...
(Continued from “Vamos a México! Part III: Palenque”) I had spent the rest of the day wandering around the wonderful San Cristobal. The city made a marked difference to the...
(Continued from “Vamos a México! Part II: Yucatan”) DAY 5: PALENQUE The bus journey from Tulum to Palenque took 11 hours. We had passed at least three army checkpoints, having...
(Continued from “Vamos a México! Part I: Route planning”) DAY 0 – FROM LONDON TO TULUM The flight from London Gatwick airport to Cancun went surprisingly smoothly. For a UK-originating...
WHY MEXICO? Believe it or not, Mexico was not actually my first choice. An island of communism in a largely capitalist hemisphere, it was Cuba that has long been on...
Compared with my previous getaway (to Iceland), the preparations for the US trip went by surprisingly smoothly. The famous volcano gracefully held off erupting. The British Airways strike didn’t bother...