I show my boarding ticket to the flight attendant and they tell me which aisle to go down. They are all smiling and look so well put together with not a hair out of line. I wonder how they always look so good even through night flights. I'm always so excited to be on huge …
What is your favourite city in the world? And why is it really your favourite city? For me, it is Paris yet everytime I sit down to write about Paris I just don't know how to explain this city. I struggle to find the right words and right combination of words. I can't even pinpoint …
Next town on our Central Mexico Tour after Guanajuato was the town of Guadalajara. After Mexico City, Guadalajara is the 2nd most populous region in Mexico. This region is well known for contributing Tequila and Mariachi in Mexican Culture. The annual Guadalajara International Film Festival is held here and the Guadalajara International Book Fair which …
I have travelled alone internationally and domestically but the final frontier was to travel alone in my own state. This was accomplished a few weeks back. I took some leave from work, packed an esky and off I drove! I love travelling alone. I like taking the time to walk about, going into any store …
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I really like Christmas time. Here, we head into our summer holidays where we are forced to not work (for once!), Christmas lights adorn the city centre and shopping centres and I look forward to lunches complete with fresh prawns, cold ham and summer fruits. I think I'm drawn to all the lights, it's a …
Continue reading Collection of Christmas Lights From My Travels and Home
Travel is great in that it exposes you to new experiences that you wouldn't normally have in your everyday life and takes you to all the far flung places of our earth. It is here outside of our comfort zones, that we discover something about ourselves. I normally don't take ferries in my day to …
The next town on our Mexico trip after a day in San Miguel de Allende was Guanajuato. Guanajuato City is about 1 hour northwest of San Miguel de Allende and is a colourful town dotted in the mountains. The bus terminal is not in the city centre so you will need to catch a cab …
Continue reading Exploring the colourful town of Guanajuato, Mexico
This post contains affiliate links where I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links and will not cost you anything extra. I bought this magnet from the Casa Azul in Mexico City. It was the late home of Frida Kahlo which is now a museum (free vitual tour in …
My first solo trip was a while ago now and it was filled with utter excitement. It was to Finland for some research at a local university. At this stage of my life, that side of the world had yet to bleep onto my radar. What made it even more exciting was that it would …
When I recently wrote about my day trip from Queretaro to Bernal, I got a lot of interest about cactus as food. So here is a post dedicated to nopal! There are over 600 varieties of cactus in Mexico and the prickly pear cactus is commonly known as nopal which is eaten. The Mexican flag …
