Daniel Etherington

Iguanas
Uxmal temple complex is home to literally dozens of iguanas, many of them a good half metre in length. Fran was perturbed.
Tamarind sorbet
Is very nice indeed, as is aqua de tamarind, a nice cool drink (alongside agua de jamaica, which is made of hibiscus flowers). We had sorbets on the Merida zocalo the other night, [...]

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It’s not like I’m obsessing over this place, I’m just getting a bit more of a chance to blog at the moment is all.
Anyway, I feel I might be doing Merida, the Yucatan’s main city, a disservice. Can I just say not, it’s probably a really cool city. We’ve just not been having a great [...]

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Despite the post by some random Merida tourism PR person after my last blog entry, we’re still not exactly having a good time in Merida. It’s the first place in Mexico we’re found a bit much. We only stayed in the overwhelming El DF three days, but the first two of those were great; we [...]

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Onwards we go, traversing Mexico on the backpacker conveyor belt, or thereabouts. Amazing country, a place of overlapping cultures, layers of history, crazy hybridisations. On a relatively benign level, this hyrdisation takes the form of stuff like me and Fran, being tired and hungry and not feeling like navigating another Mexican menu, instead going to [...]

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The city of Oaxaca (capital of the state of the same name) really is a place of contrasts. Its centro historico consists of several blocks of beautiful old ‘colonial’ villas and numerous churches, all focusing on the central zocalo and alameda adjoining plazas. It’s here the good burghers come to stroll and sit – entire families out together [...]

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Having a great time in Mexico – especially now we’re out of Mexico City, but we’re nibbling bits off out trip now as we’re running out of cash. Sydney really knocked us as it´s so pricey, and we stayed a bit long in NZ. I love the place, and it’s cheaper than Australia, but despite [...]

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After leaving dear old NZ, things have moved apace. Well, not exactly, but in retrospect it feels like it as in the space of just a few weeks, we’ve moved through four different countries.
There’s no way I could pretend five days at the wonderful Octopus Resort on Waya Island in Fiji was rushed. The place [...]

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