Hello all... Have been in Mexico City for a few days now and it has been quite an experience! At the moment there is alot of protesting going on in Mexico City and Oaxaca. It can become quite dangerous, but has been fine for us as we haven't ventured out into the 'bad' areas. The day we arrived Mel, myself and a few others from our tour group went to the Museum of Anthropology - it was huge!! Very interesting as alot of the exhibits were related to...

Hi all! Glad to hear all the fantastic results from the Eisteddfod....Reflexions kicked butt!!! And congratulations also to all my beautiful musicians at ASSG - so proud of everyone!! After a very long trip overnight on a bus we arrived in Veracruz yesterday. Mel and I were so tired that we slept all morning! We finally dragged our sorry backsides out of bed and went for a walk to check out the sights....unfortunately not much to see, so we ended back i...

Hola! Que tal? (translation - Hi! How are you?) We are now in San Cristobal, which is a very colonial style town! The rest of the group have gone on a tour to visit the surrounding Villages, but much to my disappointment I am feeling sick today so thought i had best stay at the hotel and rest! ¨Not happy Jan¨ at all!!!! The tour we went on in Palenque was fantastic...I think Palenque has been my favourite place visited in Mexico to date!! We...

Hi all!! After a very long 8 hours on a bus, we arrived in Palenque today!! Where we are staying is in the middle of the jungle! Some ppl on our tour commented...'Wow, this really is in the wilderness'...Mel and i just laughed!!! Here our cabins have running water, toilets (real ones!!) and beds.....definately not wilderness!!!! If they want wilderness, I'll have to show them the videos of the drop loos and remote cabins....and tell them the stories of u...

"Hola Amigos"...Mexican for Hello friends!! How is everything back home?? Very good I hope! I am a few days into the GAP adventures tour of Mexico! It is great! We just arrived today in Merida! The last 2 days we spent in a place called Playa del Carmen! The first day we went to see the Tulum ruins - quite interesting!! The second day, Mel and I got invited on a fishing and snorkelling trip with the other tour group that were staying at th...