Today I had the blouse for my new fancy lavender sari made. It takes an hour and costs 275 rupees so like seven bucks. The place looked awfully like a […]
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Chitzen Itza, Detours and a Deluge
Yesterday morning we set out on our trip to Chitzen Itza, the world famous Mayan pyramids and temples and one of the 7 new Wonders of the World. The trip […]
Rain in Merida
We had a good old-fashioned thunderstorm today: torrential rain, lightning flashes, thunder and more rain. It was actually quite cool – haven’t been in one in many years and as […]
Enough Peacock Feathers Already
This is going to be a tough one. We didn’t do a lot today so not much exciting to report and it is Super-Tuesday in the US and so I […]
Carnaval continued – another parade
I had no idea – even after yesterday’s children’s parade – how big this carnaval thing would get here. I come from a smallish southern German town where Fasnacht, as […]
Photography Tips
The Internet is full of photography tips on how to improve your travel photography. I am not saying that these tips aren’t good, just that they are sometimes not reasonably […]