Isolating in Querétaro, Mexico
Isolating in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico April – July 2020 Before leaving San Miguel de Allende, I make a list of cities not too many hours away and compare prices for groceries, eating out…
Mexico's Guanajuato & The Magic of San Miguel de Allende
Guanajuato & The Magic of San Miguel de Allende Mexico, February 2020 By no reasonable measure can we truly be called tourists – we don’t stay in hotels, we don’t rent cars, we barely…
The 4th of July and Falling in Love with The American Man
The 4th of July and Falling in Love with The American Man July 2020 American Independence Day. I’ve wanted to write about my falling in love with the American Man (and the USA by…
Landing in Mexico & Guadalajara
Landing in Mexico & Guadalajara February 2020 One of the very best things about travelling is the surprise of arriving in a new place. Actually, it is more than surprise, it is as if…
Granada, Nicaragua
Granada, Nicaragua From the very minute we set foot on the paved roads of Granada, we were in love. I have always had the impression that every place has an emotional thumbprint, that every…
Nicaraguan Chocolate
Nicaraguan Chocolate (and the cake) I may never have known what chocolate really is, if we never went to Granada or if I never bopped into the chocolate museum on the main road. As…
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua November 2019 Even though I knew that it was probably silly to jump straight from one coastal tourist trap to the next, I loved the look of San Juan del…
Crossing the border between Costa Rica & Nicaragua
The Border Crossing (between Costa Rica & Nicaragua) February 2020 By the second time we take the bus between San José and the border, we feel like old hands, comfortably slotting into the melee of…
Xmas Day in Nicaragua
Xmas Day in Nicaragua 2019 If I am unable to spend Xmas in the warm and hairy bosom of my family, I have a long-standing personal tradition of spending Xmas Day in the most…
Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica and Where It All Began
Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica and Where It All Began September 2019 Whereas Japan made me feel raunchy and India made me feel brave (maybe even reckless), Costa Rica made me feel drunk. Not stupid,…
Cheesecake on the Caribbean Coast
Cheesecake on the Caribbean Coast (Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica) It took me forever to figure out exactly how to approach making a cheesecake. For some reason, it had been the thing that we were…
A Night in La Zona Roja
A Night in La Zona Roja (San José, Costa Rica) November 2019 It shouldn’t have come as a surprise that booking the almost-cheapest lodgings closest to the bus terminals in San José (the Mepe…