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Menu Translations

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

El Señor had some of the best menu translations I’ve seen, obviously run thru a program that wasn’t familiar with latin American Spanish.  My favorite was “Papas a la francesa” translated to “Popes to the French” (papas are potatoes in latin America).  But had they used the more common name for French fries “papas fritas” you could have ordered “Popes fried”.  I also thought “Tacos Dorado de Pollo”, which ended up “Tacos gilded of chicken” was good.  Tacos dorado (golden, less literally) are fried tacos.

Palenque, Chiapas

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Palenque, Chiapas, originally uploaded by peggydaly.

one of the unique structures in palenque

Palenque Town: Steamy, a bit Dodgy, but not without Charms

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The decent from san cristobal to the palenque area is beautiful. Chiapas continued to enchant me. One can see a change of style in the woman’s dress – still square necked tops and belted skirts, but the skirts ... [Continue reading this entry]

san cristobal de las casas, chiapas

Sunday, April 6th, 2008
san cristobal, originally uploaded by peggydaly. view from my hotel. goodbye for now, san cristobal!!!

A Final, Needed Dose of San Cristobal

Sunday, April 6th, 2008
So I had my loungy-day in san cristobal and found a $20, all-day tour of the gruta de san cristobal (big cave!), las cascadas de chiflon and lagunas de Montebello. These are south and southeast of san cristobal and ... [Continue reading this entry]

San Juan Chamula, Chiapas

Saturday, April 5th, 2008
San Juan Chamula, originally uploaded by peggydaly. During the procession from the church to the cemetery up the hill, where new crosses were placed on graves and soda pops were given to the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Cañon de Sumidero

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Chiapas’s grand canyon.  It’s outside of Chiapa do Corzo, on the way to Tuxla and driving there one realizes just how high San Cristobal is when coming down out of the mountains.  It’s also plenty warmer in the valley, where ... [Continue reading this entry]

Corrida por Vida

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Ok – probably bad Spanish but I have a moment to reflect on the bullfight and i wanted a rhyme.  As I indicated in an earlier post I wondered if it was best to go.  While I understand that life ... [Continue reading this entry]

San Lorenzo Zinacantan

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Chiapas, originally uploaded by peggydaly. Tortilla-making

Looking Back – with less than one month left!!

Monday, March 31st, 2008
While working on my pics today I took a little time to watch a random slideshow of vacation pics and I was amazed by all the things I’ve seen!  Different places, people, climates, animals, foods and already they were tucked ... [Continue reading this entry]