hola!

hola amigos!

well here we are in sunny mexico - well its mostly sunny....actually it´s been a bit cold in some places, and damn chilly in others. something to do with a storm on the coast bringing cold winds inland. anyway so here´s a quick summary of the last two weeks:

mexico city - arrived at night, bit scary but nice hostel, friendly people, good value - found taco stand, 40p each, yum yum yum ate lots - went to pyramids at teotihaucan, third largest pyramid in the world, we climbed it and the smaller one too. awesome place, beautiful views, and hot and sunny too! exhausting tho, but fun!
lots of walking around - we do this a lot, mainly cos its free.

bus to Puebla. puebla is a small spanish colonial city - pretty tiled buildings, but not a lot to do. other than walking around of course. had strange chicken with spicy chocolate sauce - weird, not having that ever again....supposed to be famous for it but think we picked a bad restaurant so bad example. beautiful churches and cathedrals.

apologies at this stage for any typos, the keyboards are slightly different here!

bus to Oaxaca (wa HAH ka), bigger colonial city. suposed to be very good for arts and culture but due to various circumstance we didnt see much of that. still, lovely place, stayed at a fab hostel up on the hill, so great views and quite peaceful. fantastic family running it, really enjoyed it there. its called La Villada Inn if anyone ever goes there!

guys at La Villada recommended we go to Puerto Escondido to stay with their crazy english friend Steve who owns a hostel there called Tower Bridge. he was indeed a little crazy but a great bloke, and a lovely place with little bungalows. its down on the south cost and it was HOT! very humid as well which took some getting used to, but was nice not to be cold for a change! we went to a couple of beaches, ian did a lot of swimming but i was a bit too scared to go right in cos they were BIG waves.....so i paddled a lot instead! hehe yeah i know im a wimp but i need to start with little waves....

last night got the overnight bus (14 hours) to San Cristobal de la casas in the mountains, arrived at about 11am today. snoozed a bit cos didnt sleep well on the bus, now just off to explore a bit.

so in general so far, what are my impressions of mexico......well, its very beautiful, the mountains are breathtaking - on the trip to puerto escondido we took a cheaper bus which went on the wiggliest roads i´ve ever known, made us feel quite ill but the views were amazing. its not quite as cheap as we´d hoped but locals assure us the rest of central america is, so that´s good. people are generally very friendly - we just need to learn more spanish so we understand them more!

anyway better go, more soon...

love erica and ian xxx