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Back to where it all began

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

I spent a nice weekend in the beautiful little colonial town of Guanajuato, set on the side of a hill with narrow winding streets, sweet little parks and squares where musicians and assorted street performers did their thing. Saturday night was a big one, going out with a group of mexicans on a weekend break from Mexico City. After a bar or two we headed to a club in the town centre and proceeded to dance and drink the night away with a bottle of tequila. Sunday, no surprise, was a pretty subdued and unproductive day!

I didn’t manage to do either of Gwyns suggestions, visiting the mummies or the little town of San Miguel, but it was a nice place to stay all the same and I certainly could’ve spent more time there. However, as a friend Tim that I’d met in Mexico City at the start of my trip was about to fly home on Tuesday, I headed off Monday afternoon for Mexico City again.

I’m now back in the hostel where I started, trying to sort out a flight to get my arse down to Brazil. It’s like coming home again, in a way. I was greeted Monday evening by Tim, Alex who works the bar and Luis, the big friendly security guard who I’d befriended here last time. I’m not exactly doing a lot of sightseeing this time around, but as ever I’m propping up the bar and meeting lots of nice people once again. The next time I check-in should be with news of my impending flight down to South America, the prospect of which is giving me itchy feet and butterflies in my stomach, symptoms that I’m sure Doctor Booze will cure while I’m hanging around waiting to go.

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New Year and all that

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

After my birthday we got a bit of culture in visiting a museum with lovely murals on the ceiling (Gwyn you need to comment what these were and by whom as my memory is shot and it´s all or mostly your fault), before heading off to Puerto Vallarta for New Year.

Lovely mural
Lovely mural that is probably more significant than I´m making it sound

Puerto Vallarta was beautiful, a resort town set on the pacific coast with cobbled streets and a big beach, and thanks to the efforts of Sarita and Gwyn we landed ourselves the perfect apartment. We had a long weekend there, celebrating the new year in the company or G & S´s friends, taking in local towns, nice restaurants and even a car repair garage (not part of the plan). One night I even managed to pull a mexican girl, which just goes to show that my spanish must´ve improved a little, though I think I still come across as a retarded child – maybe it was just sympathy!

Puerto Vallarta
View from our apartment in Puerto Vallarta

This last week since coming back from PV has been really nice with Monica and Daniel coming back with us to stay in Guadalajara. The following two photos are of a place we visited on thursday, not far from Guadalajara. Very scenic, very nice, apart from the dead dogs we saw on route!

Lake something or other
Lake Chapala

Mural on school wall
Mural on the school wall in the town of Ajijic, on Lake Chapala

And so, after a fantastic couple of weeks in the company of Gwyn and Sarita (and friends) I finally had to say goodbye and headed off this morning, before they started charging me rent. I´m now in a place four hours west of Guadalajara called Guanajuato. Lovely.

Sorry if I´ve been a bit vague of late, I was close to giving up this blog nonsense as it was becoming a chore and my memory has taken a set-back of late (!) However, these last few posts bring me up-to-date again. So apologies if they´re lacking in substance, I´ll try to stay on top of it again now and bore you senseless with more regular updates again.

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