• Still a few jitters to sort out…

    …on the blog front, some posts and comments have gone missing in the server change and there’s the usual accent fun that comes from writing apostrophes on a Spanish keyboard, but it looks like all most is right once again with the world of agaveweb.

    Coming soon:

    subway gwyn1) Proper posts that don’t go on about the state of my hosting
    2) 7 reasons why I’ll take Guadalajara over New York each and every time
    3) 7 day trips around Guadalajara
    4) A run down of our last trip to the states
    5) In praise of Pentax DSLRs
    6) And much, much more…

    We’re leaving this wonderful country towards the end of October, plan your visits now, folks…

  • Where to start

    Just working out how to change the name servers for AgaveWeb.com then I´ll be up and running again and posting like never before…

    In the meantime, Laura from Flickr was kind enough to write this brief hagiography for my profile:

    playabalandra74 dice:

    “Definición de Gwyn: Un Inglés tapatío con estomago de acero que resiste tacos, tortas ahogadas y demás antojitos mexicanos, afinicionado fiel a las luchas y magnifico fotógrafo del paisaje rural de Jalisco.

    Gracias por mostrarnos lo nuestro desde tu muy particular punto de vista atravéz de tus fotos :D”

    Read More “Where to start”

  • Window Flower

    There’s more street art than you can shake a piñata at in Ajijic, Jalisco on the shore of Lake Chapala. Thanks largely in part to a large group of relatively well off upper North American retirees and local artists.

  • Papá

    We’re off for a week or so to the States, LA and NY. And as you may have gathered my blogs are playing up a bit so apologies for the sporadic posting. Here’s a photo from Sunday’s Flickr tour of some paternal fun since we’ll be passing by our family’s home in L.A. Keep checking back or subscribe away to the RSS or email updates! Cheers!

  • Mercado de Zapopan

    It helps if you’re paid by the number of lecky metres you read rather than by the hour.

  • Blue Demon vs. Groucho Marx

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    Me iPaq is famous for its high quality, low light camera… Who was that masked man? That´ll be Fernando. And Javier´s Groucho…

    How many times have I been to the Lucha Libre now? I´ve lost count to be honest. I´m starting to get a bit lucha fatigued, maybe cos of the inordinately long queues at the bar and the bloke who managed to tell me he wasn´t pushing in in front of me at the same exact time as ordering 2 beers with his nationally understood Mexican Hand Gestures… Git.

    So anyway, I´ve got my computer back and it´s actually running better than ever. Thanks for your support and kind words during this trying time (Annelise & Dad 🙂 ) I spent a large part of yesterday watching progress bars crawl from left to right, but now I´ve more or less got the system as I wanted and can start working properly. It still sounds like a fridge with the temperature dial on -50 ºC though, but I´m going to get the parts on Ebay and after about 200 bucks should have a well behaved lappy back once again.

    Alrighty, back to the grind. Hopefully in a few days I´ll be able to post a link to the fruits of my labours, and you can pick out some of the most expensive handcrafted jewellery Mexico has to offer.

    PS Flickr tour #5/#6? to the Guachimontones on Sunday, meeting at 9am by the Arcos… Contact me for details!

  • When it rains it pours…

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    So once again my laptop has died. I won´t go into details but suffice to say I´ve lost a fair amount of work. Sporadic posting once again will be the flavour of the week. Check out Flickr for some uplifting photos of people hawking their wears on a Sunday market during 10 inches or so of rainfall…

  • Anyone know of a dog friendly cabaña in Mazamitla or Tapalpa?

    Slowly getting there with me latest ecommerce project… the PHP classes are coming in very hand though I don´t think my code
    bares bairs bears close scrutiny… It’s taking up pretty much all of me time though hence the grinding to a halt of blogging this week after an auspicious start. Hey ho.

    So it’s Friday so here are some three links to enjoy over the weekend:

    Have you seen Cat Face yet? He’s got the body of a cat and the face of cat… There’s 3 episodes that’ll take about 2.5 minutes to look through.

    Vector game thingy.

    “There are two things that one can a director can add to absolutely any movie to make it at least three times better: zombies, and Gary Oldman”

    Alrighty, back to the artisanal jewellery shop…

  • Ecoturismo in Tulum, Mexico

    Doesn’t get much better than views like this from the beach by Zahra cabañas in Tulum, Mexico.

  • Ratatouille

    I finally managed a new minor film review (in the sidebar if you’re using a decent browser), and I’m trying to get back into my blogging groove, but I’ve got a fair bit of “chamba” on at the minute- translating movie scripts, site updates and getting my head around a WordPress e-commerce site.

    This is also a test post to see if I can get a LightBox plug in going. Sorry if it screws up the RSS feed as I might need to keep editing this entry.

    Yay, it appears to work. Click on John Craven to see another John in a balloon. Make sure the entire page has loaded first mind for the full ajaxy fun.

  • Atticus and Custard

    NB: Americans: First familiar”ize” yourselves with classic British kids TV programmes here… the first 30 seconds should be enough, then have an eyeful of Atticus´s latest landscape gardening attempt…

    As visitors to our house may already know this is a regular occurrence whenever anyone drives away from young ‘Cus.

  • 3 Crows x 4 Cuervos

    Jose Cuervo have spent a fortune doing up their old factory, La Rojea. It’s open for fancy tours and corporate events. Or, like me, save yourself a peso or two and just admire the grounds through the railings and patronise some of the other less slick factory tours in Tequila. Cuervo means “crow” in Spanish for the record.