The final episode of Mexico - Puerto Escondido, Barra De La Cruz and Oaxaca City. We spent the weekend in Puerto Escondido partying. Since we had been here we had had one loose night which ultimately was the night of the storm. The other nights were casual drinks beachside. We headed out with a bottle of spiced gold rum in our systems and headed for cocktails at grekos to see our mate who works there. The night ended pretty early and we spent the next day at Pl...

A long stretch of creamy sand protects the fishing and market village from the deadly monstrous waves that power deep from the ocean. Locals roam the smooth paved streets delivering a friendly ‘Hola’, and small hut like restaurants amongst palm trees edge onto the polished Playa Zicatela, this is Puerto Escondido, this is Mexican Pipeline. Arriving in Puerto Escondido after an overnight 17 hour bus ride it is fair to say we were pretty f***ed, though the f...

Bienvendios Mexico! These were the first words we heard when our Boeing 747 gracefully glided itself onto Mexican land, naturally ‘Welcome to Mexico’ would be the words heard when one lands into Mexico city airport, we just didn’t know at this point that this was the start of a very frustrating Spanish exam where the grade determined our lives. Okay, bit of an exaggeration there, the grade eg the length of our Spanish skills wouldn’t determine our live...