Fototur Tapatio 01-07

ByGwyn Fisher

Well, that was a lovely afternoon wandering round the city centre of Guadalajara (Guanatos to its denizens) and meeting likeminded souls. While sipping Coronas con sal y limon in La Fuente El Charro Negro and Eliazar turned up with cameras in tow and we decided to go off snapping shots of the centre, from La Fuente to Las Cabaas to San Juan de Dios. A couple more Flickreros joined us in the cabaas and we watched life unfold in San Juan. I hope we can do it again some time. Thanks to everyone for coming, looking forward to your photos…

Here’re some of my faves:

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Then we had dinner at La Divina Tentación, a v. nice restaurant, though we got there at 8 and left at 9:30ish and were the only customers there. Outnumbered 3 to 1 by waiters. Good food and not hugely pricey. Recommended…

Today Sita and I went on a lightning trip to Tonalá where we bought more trinkets to decorate the homestead with, including a copper agave thing (photo one of these days…) which we bargained down from 300 pesos to 200, then came back to a shiny clean house thanks to M & D’s Herculean efforts. And a rug which “really ties the room together…”

Later today: giving a private class to Monica and Daniel on the delights of the subjunctive mood. In Starbucks, for our sins…

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Sita got me a fiddle… Sorry neighbours… Happy Christma’s y’all

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Record scrabble score

scrabble2 (12k image)495 points for me and 340 for young Sita. I got four, count’em, four 7 letter words, or “Bingos” as we Scrabble geeks call them, seeming, roasted, gentled, and strainer (8 letters, but who’s counting?). In our defence, although we were playing Scrabble on a Friday night, we’d been out the night before with friends and stuff. And we were listening to contemporary Mexican trance. And we made our own pizza and had fine wine. Oh alright, it’s nothing to be proud of…

Happy B-day Bethan

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I keep trying to phone but no one’s answering… Even Jed. Many happy returns. Pressie’s in the pipeline. Honest… Will celebrate in style when we get back (June 28th is the latest ETA). Break out the Zider and Jaffa cakes.

Me folks

have been to Salcombe for a couple of days, looking forward to hearing how it went on a marathon phone session tomorrow. Dad’s already posted some pix of them pottering around the seaside (click for bigger, 87k).

I have a 3-day weekend which started 10 minutes ago courtesy of the presidents of the united states of america. Which is the first nice thing they’ve ever done for me, frankly. I am pitifully grateful. Not just a 3 day weekend, but also a four day week. What are the chances, eh? Shall fill every waking minute with soul-nourishing activities. I promise. Mind you, I fancy seeing that Constantine film too, I’ve not read any reviews of it yet though… and i have to watch anchorman first before i take it back to blockbuster. despite the “end of late fees” they’re trumpetting, if you don’t return it in time, you’ve just bought that DVD and its crappy yellow case. harumph.

My new driving license arrived today with the cheesiest of grins on it… 10 out of 10 for speed of processing, bugger all for pressing the camera button at the wrong time. I refuse to take any responsibility for how I look in that photo. Someone at the DMV owns a copy of photoshop and has too much time on their hands.

A couple of new signees on the guestmap- let’s give it up for Tash and ‘Naridu‘ from blighty and oz respectively. It’s quite fun to surf around the world via people’s guestmaps. 7 degrees of separation and all that.