Mexico

  • Mexico,  Travel

    Mexico: Highlights

    Mexico is beautiful, an enormous country (about 23 times the size of Ireland) with something to enchant every visitor – palm-fringed beaches, red-sand deserts,  lush jungles, mountain ranges, coastlines along the turquoise Caribbean…

  • Mexico,  Travel

    Mexico: Completing the Loop

    Time in Mexico flew by and we found ourselves back in the Yucatan driving away from the Gulf of Mexico (definitely still called that), heading inland towards Cancun to complete the last part…

  • Mexico,  Travel

    Mexico: Driving by the Gulf

    Everything was pink, flamingo pink. Flamingoes were painted on the walls, plastic birds lurked in the foliage of gardens and even the bridge into the little town of Celestun was painted a soft…

  • Mexico,  Travel

    Mexico: Then and Now

    Inhaling clear air, we felt slightly dizzy from the altitude at 3100m and the breathtaking scenery of pine-clad forests. The distant tinkling of bells, worn around the necks of goats and sheep, drifted…

  • Mexico,  Travel

    Mexico: Gone to the Beach

    It was the start of a long day, a very long day. It was barely ten degrees, a bright, chilly and pine-scented morning in the gorgeous, mountain-town of San Christobel de Las Casas.…