I started writing this blog in a different time. At a time when Brexit was pretty much the biggest thing…
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The end of the world
We’d been driving in a straight line down a narrow road for almost an hour, and my vision was beginning…
Flying under the radar in Guatemala
I’ve been writing a lot recently about travel. Some of it my own experiences (mostly here, to be honest), some…
Watching whales where the desert meets the sea
I feel like anyone who grew up watching American sitcoms, dramas and films knows about Cabo. I’m not sure how,…
Check in
Is a blog still a blog if it never gets updated? Over the last few months I’ve been constantly frustrated…
Vitamin T
My oldest friend came to visit my newly adopted country over Christmas and the New Year. We met in Merida,…
San Juan Chamula
I wasn’t expecting to find a dualist heresy in rural Mexico, much less one governed and guided by narcos, but…
Stuffed cheese, sinkholes, pink lakes and jam
As I’ve mentioned previously, they take Christmas pretty seriously in Mexico. Our Christmas decorations went up in mid-November, and as…
An idiot’s guide to Mexican politics
One bonus of fleeing the country for warmer climes has been an ability to turn down the volume on the…