• Flooded Forest

    The edge of Lake Chapala in Mezcala, Jalisco, Mexico.

  • Mezcala Sky

    We are all in Guanatos, but some of us are looking at the sky. Taken in Mezcala, Jalisco, near Lake Chapala. Not sure what the plants are but there were tons of them…

  • ¿Con verdura?

    Tacos al pastor off of Av. Federalismo in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

  • Yucatán chair

    Spot the gecko on this traditional twin chair set in Valladolid in Mexico’s Yucatán

  • Tacos al Pastor

    Tacos made with pork meat and served in corn tortillas. Highly recommended.

  • Sombreros for Sale

    Locals selling their sombreros in Patzcuaro, Michoacan… And not one of them would fit my head…

  • Rolling AgaveScape

    For once I got to be the passenger in the car on the toll road back from Tequila to Guadalajara. I love the turquoise volcanic landscape. 95 pesos each way in June 2007.

  • I’ve corrected some of the special character issues…

    …using a combination of knowledge from my PHP classes (I’m about to sign up for the advanced classes for next week) and this page on how to Search and Replace using PHPMyAdmin so now the apostrophe issue is cleared up and there aren’t enough other errors to make it worth my while. My Spanish blog‘s another story though, I ended up going in and editing each entry by hand… Luckily there aren’t that many pages.

    So, it’s still raining and starting to get colder just in time for Stu’n’Anne’s visit. Hope they don’t mind too much. Atticus is certainly a bit bothered by it all and is showing early signs of SAD. He’s missing M&D too, mind, who phoned last night to say they’d spent 15 hours on the road and had made it Los Mochis, of all places. They’ve set a new record, they’re probably somewhere near the Canadian border if they’ve kept up the pace.

    We watched Pan’s Labyrinth again last night, as Sita hadn’t seen it. I’d forgotten how powerful a film it is. It’s the ultimate fable on rejecting authority and a gruesome depiction of post civil war Spain. I saw the Devil’s Backbone (El Espinazo del Diablo) t’other week too which takes place in the same era but doesn’t have as clear a division between fantasy and reality. Still fine viewing though. Had a game of Scrabble too. I got all the good tiles…

    In terms of the HTMLery I’m going to be putting together a shopping site for a high-end artesanal jewelry store to complement their flash site soonish which’ll be interesting and a chance to practice my PHP skillz. Also I read the readme file that came with the photoblog theme and it explained how to have thumbnails on the archive page, so I sorted that out. Looks quite nice, oi reckon. Shame i’ve now got two blogs that don’t quite render right on IE6 though, but frankly IE6 users deserve all they get.

    And that’s all for today. Next up, dragging Atticus through the rain to pick up El Público with its weekly events listing, Ocio, and then paying the phone/interweb bill, rent, and PHP course… it’s going to be an expensive day this one…

  • Back soon

    First off, I liked the textures, but mostly I liked that someone actually lived here, had a key and wanted to let their neighbours/friends/family know they were out to lunch.

  • Young Charros in Ajijic

    Perfecting their skills in the streets of Ajijic by Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico

  • Torero Toreando

    This was a one-off visit to the bullring. I felt I was on very dubious moral ground throughout… Undeniably impressive whatever your viewpoint. Taken in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico…

  • We´re back…

    … although the unicode lettering of all the entries is buggered up and I´ve no idea how to search and replace weird accents on a MySQL database. That´s my next project…

    Never mind, it´s not like people read the archives anyway.

    So what a weekend, Meg, Matt, Matera, Bowling, Pool, Sexual Diversity Parade, “Clubbing”, Tequila, tequila and even Lucha Libre. Then spectacular thunderstorms, power cuts and blog outages then last night Monica and OCD´s farewell gathering (they´re off on Thursday at the crack of dawn). I´ve got lots to catch up on but at least the heat should no longer be an issue… I´m wearing a long sleeved t-shirt today for the first time in 8 months you´ll be delighted to hear.

  • Shakira´s latest

    Meanwhile, in Gwod, we fit A LOT into yesterday. Flickr more or less sums up the first part. Part II was going out at 11h30 pm just like all the hip young Tapatians ready to party, but finding the music a bit too loud and settling for a night in playing Jenga and eating chocolate biscuits.

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    Matt’s permanently surprised with the number of cars that A) he’s never heard of and B) are allowed to circulate on the roads…

  • Day of the Dead I

    Taken in the Guadalajara, Jalisco’s Panteon de Belen, on the Day of the Dead 2006