I just got my first look at a Chiapas state driver’s license. On the front it has your organ donor status in big letters, standing out more than the personal information above it. On the back it has your blood type and emergency contact. I can’t decide whether the authorities are morbid, in the pay…
Swim review: Hunucma cenotes
One of the best ways to swim that I’ve come across! These are the cenotes on the former sisal plantation in Hunucmá, Yucatán state. It’s close to Acanceh, about an hour east from Mérida. Around there you can just cruise along the road and you’ll see people with colourful placards advertising cenote visits, also good,…
Book review: A Supposedly Fun Thing…
My ebook version of “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” by David Foster Wallace came with three essays: one on David Lynch, one on professional tennis, with the titular one last. I gave up halfway through the tennis essay: Lynch gives me the creeps and I’ve never had an interest in tennis, so…
Ruin city review: Tenam Puente
Yeah! All we do here for weekend trips here in Chiapas is swim and climb pyramids, sometimes both on the same day. If you head towards Comitan with its historical town centre, tasty food and own-label agave spirit you’re within easy reach of at least three archaeological sites and four swimming spots. Pyramids: Chinkultic, Tenam Puente…
Swim review: Las Nubes
Las Nubes is one of the furthest swim-and-chill destinations you can reasonably hit on a weekend from San Cristóbal: a cottage hotel next to the swift Santo Domingo river, just upstream from some spectacular rapids. In the dry season the water is a delicious chalky blue and the swimming “beach” lets you swim across the…
Swim review: Chukumaltic
There’s so much outdoor swimming to be had in Chiapas that I´m becoming quite the connaisseur(e?) of southern Mexico’s waterfalls, rivers, cenotes and lakes. And a few beaches. So much so that I’m hereby inaugurating the tag Swim Review! This is in spite of not being an enthusiastic fan of swimming*, but my partner’s merman-like…
Book review: Housekeeping
I didn’t get this book. It’s all about the lake and how it sort of seeps into the lives of all the characters… I guess… I forced myself to finish it and came away with an impression of wading through a sucking swamp with smelly cold water wicking through my clothes. I couldn’t empathise…
Lead by obeying
The zapatista movement’s leadership principles – in chain-stitch embroidery!
Dog transport
Mexican doggies get rides.
Mitä me syödään?
Me yritetään syödä hyvää ruokaa – joka maistuu hyvältä, joka on terveellistä, joka tulee mahdollisimman läheltä ja jossa ruuan hinnasta suuri osa menee maanviljelijöille ja pientuottajille eikä valtavien tehtaiden osakkaille. Onneksi täällä San Cristobalissa on paljon mahdollisuuksia syödä noiden periaatteiden mukaan. Tältä meidän ruoka näyttää!
Joonalle ja Pinjalle
Tältä meilläpäin näyttää!
NO! NO CHANGE!
There´s a saying about the ruling political party: “They’ll change everything to make sure that nothing changes”. This philosophy has clearly permeated all Mexican life, at least retail, because it’s near-impossible to get any CHANGE. How can an entire economy be so strapped for coin? s? I needed money this evening to reimburse people’s travel expenses…
The troubles of inter-national marriages
Marry a foreigner! They might have better beaches than your home.
Green & yellow fuzz
I keep being late for work because every morning I discover something else that’s covered in mold and needs a vinegar bath (or soak or scrub). To wit: My only sexy high heel shoes 20-dollar bills Kuksa (by the way, that price is extortionate. Come to Finland and buy one instead, get a nice trip…
