In Panama, the month of November has only fifteen working days. November 1st is Children’s Day, and the second is All Soul’s Day, a national day of mourning on which both loud music and alcohol are prohibited. As soon as the clock strikes midnight, however, three trumpet-calls (“las dianas”)[...]
Posts Tagged ‘travel’
The Adventure Illusion or: how I learned to stop thinking and just ride a bike
Today’s guest post comes from Casey Link. Casey is a software engineer who just can’t seem to stay in one place. Between stopovers at oases of Internet necessary for his work, Casey finds himself compelled toward that mysterious blue horizon. That compulsion has taken him across the USA,[...]
April 29th, 2011 - 8:35 am § in Mexico
Three weeks in…
It’s hard to believe that I’ve only been away for just over three weeks. It’s been such a high energy run of vibrant sites, lost in the middle of nowhere bus journeys, annoying travelers, dodgy food and escapism all mixed together with a healthy dose of ‘oh yes, this is what traveling is lik[...]
Pura Vida
Unlike a lot of volunteers in Latin America, I didn’t come down here specifically to find a volunteer position. Sure, I was planning on getting involved in the community and volunteering my time wherever I ended up, but the plan was to end up with a paid job, and then figure out the rest from [...]
April 3rd, 2011 - 6:12 am § in Mexico, Uncategorized
Eating My Way to Mexico
About seven years ago, at the tender age of 18, I wandered into a second-hand book shop in Cardiff, South Wales and, after looking at children’s books and paint-sets, I came across a ‘bargain-basement’ hardback book. It was called ‘Sue Lawrence’s Book of Baking’[...]
Rimaykullayki!
I'm a British writer-educator who's come straight from Manhattan to provincial Peru. But, as I found out, there’s nothing like hopping one-legged through a crowd of bemused Peruvians to keep you grounded. So take off a shoe and hop along with me, as we take a look at teaching and learning off the [...]
Life Changes: From England to Guatemala
It’s a week before my husband and I set off on our next adventure. We have traveled before and, by some people’s standards, we’ve traveled a lot: but this time it feels different. Our last trip was a short, three-week stint around Costa Rica and Panama and before that, other than some city bre[...]
