The best of Mexico on a plate
In the last week of our Mexican return, staying on Isla Mujeres, we took advantage of a reasonably good forecast for the first few days to take a taxi into […]
In the last week of our Mexican return, staying on Isla Mujeres, we took advantage of a reasonably good forecast for the first few days to take a taxi into […]
The stunning light and sound show we caught on our first night in Valladolid – projected onto the side of the 16th century Convent we were staying next to – vividly […]
By this point in our two week Mexican re-boot I should probably be filling you in on the local specialities we’d got to sample, like the ceviche being piled on plates […]
It had been a long flight from Manchester to Cancun, packed into a Boeing Dreamliner with the package holiday crowd (at one extraordinary point the cabin had been lit up with […]
It’s been two and a half years since we began our epic nose to tail tour of Central and South America, but, finalmente, the prawns have returned to Mexico. There’s […]
Overland miles: 14256 Bus hours: 436.75 Empanadar: 98 We’d sampled fish tostadas in Mexico, the ‘Elvis’ breakfast in Guatemala, grilled king prawns (naturelemente) in El Salvador, vigaron (yucca and pork scratchings) in […]
Overland miles: 14256 Bus hours: 436.75 Empanadar: 96 We are standing in the austerely framed Plaza de Armas in the centre of Lima, simultaneously trying to unfurl handwritten banners in […]
Overland miles: 14045 Bus hours: 428.5 Empanadar: 96 As our last weeks approached rapidly, we realised we needed to get away from llama jumper wearing gringos, test our true travelling mettle […]
Overland miles: 13994 Bus hours: 428.50 Empanadar: 96 Peru. It’s a massive, mixed-up, white-kuckle thrill-ride of a country. And so is its food. As a foodie, it’s impossible not to get […]
Overland miles: 13652 Bus hours: 404.25 Empanadar: 94 The regular reader of this humble travel correspondence will be aware that for some time I have been banging on about empanadas. […]