Daniel Etherington

EDIT June 07: I kinda gave up with this section, though it was good in principle. Here’s some discussion of places we’ve stayed, had meals and boozed, which may be helpful for people Googling, but will also be a satisfying way to get things off my chest… Lotus Suites, Mumbai, India This is the first [...]

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Of our round-the-world trip at least. We’re back in the UK, though not back in London as our tenants have the house until next month (when we were supposed to be getting home). After five very pleasant days in Toronto with Fran’s old chum Sara, and a day in groovy Montreal (where, as an aside, we did [...]

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We’re trying to move onwards, but seem to be somewhat stuck in Toronto. Tried to change our BA flight home, but they told us to ring QANTAS. Couldn’t reach them, their number just took us to an eternal limbo of hold music and exasperation. Half hour in: “please, just answer…”; hour in: “damn you, there [...]

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Travelodge LAX I’ve always been intrigued by the notion of staying in an airport hotel. This life-long fascination (which has its origins in the same period of my childhood when the idea of going to a Little Chef seemed thrilling) was satisfied by a night at the remarkably pleasant LAX Travelodge. Heck, you could almost [...]

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It’s our final night in Mexico, tomorrow night we’ll be staying in a McHotel at LAX. It’s been great here, and this past week it’s been kinda nice to be sitting around in environments where there are birds soaring over palm trees. We started our trip with amazing numbers of hawks soaring over the palms [...]

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I’ve just been swimming in the Caribbean, and watching the sunset, accompanied by Fran and a few 15 pesos Dos Equis beers. Can’t complain about that. Heck, even the crazy weather of the past week or so seems to have calmed down slightly. It’ll all be over soon though. We’re leaving Mexico in a few [...]

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Merida grew on us eventually, but we were glad to arrive in the consumately mellow town of Valladolid. It’s Yucatan state’s second city, but is considerably smaller than Merida and has considerably less bustle. The zocalo is a nice wee place with funny little fountain in the middle of a Mayan lady surrounded by frogs. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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