Swim review: Puerto Arista

Concrete cube, lack of sleep alleviated by nice beach days. But you can do better.

Swim review: Zacapulco, Chiapas

Not a single cruise ship docks at Zacapulco, a spot on the sand-spit between the mangrove estuary and Pacific on the Chiapas coast. It’s similar to Boca del Cielo in that it’s got the delta on one side and fierce ocean waves on the other, but it’s closer to Tapachula. To get to Zacapulco, first…

Swim review: lagoon and waves at Boca del Cielo, Chiapas

Bathwater, scary towering waves, mozzies and seafood strip.

Visit Mexico: the beaches!!!!

Here´s one of the best bits. I´ve only experienced the beaches in Oaxaca and at the tip of the Yucatán peninsula. But there´s more on the Caribbean coast in Quintana Roo, down the hill from us in Chiapas and on the Pacific coast all the way up to Baja California… And the beach means grilled…

aspiring to the culturally appropriate

Greetings from the unrecognised Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. Travelling always makes for a pretty surreal feeling – which is well and good. I think air travel makes places seem too conveniently near and without time differences, jet lag, disorientation etc you can lose a sense of perspective: namely, how far places really are from…