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Or watching winter in Vancouver from Mexico.
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I’ll be doing that for a few weeks. Maybe some writing about Mexico. Learning some Spanish.
I’ll try to add something to Price Tags intermittently, if only to post Ken Ohrn’s Images, the Dailies and, of course, a poll when the referendum question is announced.
But otherwise, time to get some sunshine and perspective.
- ¡Feliz año nuevo!
Most people heading for a Mexican vacation go for the Pacific coast: Escondido, Acapulco etc. and they miss out on a lot . . .
http://www.theyorkshirelad.ca/7mexicocity/mexicocity1.htm
. . . El monstruo gets a bad rap from the tourist industry.
If you find your self at a loss Gord for enlightenment try a few nights at Hotel Isabella, Isabel la Catolica en La Ciudad: it’s central, inexpensive, clean and dates back to Ferndinand y Isabella.
http://www.theyorkshirelad.ca/10alligatorreports/alligators.htm
Feliz Navidad y prospero Año nuevo</I?
Roger: No entiendes el concepto de Buenos Airies como una ciudad, una región y una provincia. ¿Por qué presumes para enseñar español?
Never got to Escondido. My time was spent working in Escondida, in Chile.
Safe travels, Gordon.
Evidentemente, no! Todo lo que sé es que Buenos Aires hizo un mejor trabajo en Puerto Madero que Vancouver hizo en False Creek North.
Admiro las aguas Millenium para Vancouver cuando quiere.
No he hablado a español desde que salí de México en 1998 y es duro (Diccionario en línea etc.) y a cosuming tiempo para que inglés por favor. Entonces Jeff Englise por favor!
Englise? That is what we called Spanglish in Chile. English and Inglise.
Cierto, I’ll keep to English. You too please.
Have a great time, Gordon! Well earned.
My favourite part about winter is the snow! Let it blow, let it blow and let us celebrate with snowmen, ice palaces, igloos, snow caves, snow shoes, ski hills, snow boards, snow boots, snow suits, toques and mittens, barrel stoves, wood fires and lots of brandy.
Grod – Hope you do go to Ciudad Oaxaca for history and culture and Puerto Escondido for sun and beach. Playa Carizalillo is our favourite beach in the latter.
Er, Gord.
One last suggestion, if our host hasn’t already left, on his Mexican adventure.
Tecolutla, Veracruz . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecolutla
. . . on the gulf coast: beautiful beach, (Plaza Marcol on the beach) local, and totally free of the ubiquitous NA tourist.
El Tajin . . .
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=El+Tajin+pole+dancers&qpvt=El+Tajin+pole+dancers&FORM=IGRE
. . . with it’s pole dancers, is an hours bus ride.
What could be more relaxing than a holiday in an oil-powered kleptocracy?
“oil-powered kleptocracy! Are you kidding?
Canterell pretty well played out twenty-years ago Bob!
Forget the oil. I’d be scared as hell about the 25 missing kids in Iguala: that’s in Guerro a State were all the tourists end up.
PS I know how to spell Inglise Jeff: I guess even typos get space on Price Tags.
PPSThe level of gossip on this blog is depressing.
Spelling! Sorry Jeff, Guerrero! I was there, Puerto Escondido, just after the 1998 hurricane: Lots of debris.
Too many Aquilini peole in Acapulco for my liking!
PEMEX Bob: just another disfunctional bureacracy in a tall tower!
Puerto Escondido in Mexico is a tourist destination.
La Escondida, or simply Escondida, is a large copper mine in the Atacama desert.