Oaxaca was a beautiful city. It had cobbled streets, brightly coloured buildings, a main square, great places to eat and lots of little markets. The main square was never dull. There people dancing, musicians, far too many balloon sellers, clowns, artists. It had a real buzz about it. The hostel was lovely. We arrived just after the sun had set. We approached a wooden door and knocked. We could hear the puling back of bolts and then a little window in the door c...

Puebla is a beautiful little city. The buildings are decorated with brightly coloured tiles. Did a self guided city tour, pretty impressive. Puebla has over 75 churches which if you compared to the size of the city is amazing. There is literally a church on every street. Went in quite a few - felt like I was on a pilgrimage. One really stood out. This was the Iglesia Santo Domingo with its stunning Capilla del Rosario. As I walked into this chapel I was rendered ...

A new and strange experience - travelling with out a Lonely Planet (LP) as unfortunately the Central America LP only covers a 1/3 of Mexico! Either that or I had a significant number of pages missing. What to do!Plan A - Locate a map. The hotel had one but when open was taller than me - not incredibly practical and besides it didn't have any landmarks on it.Plan B - Wander round aimlessly until we find a tourist information and hopefully see things on the way. (w...

Well being the average backpacker, we flew Executive Business class to Mexico City. I kid you not - it was fab. We were offered drinks even before the plane had taken off!!! When I asked for a glass of red wine, they asked which one - music to my ears. It was superb. I think we blended in - scruffy cargo pants, t-shirt on its last wear (who mentioned flies), lots of excited squeals and zillions of photos to capture the memory. Definitely the average business clas...