This morning’s orientation exercise was the Mercado Lucas de Gálvez, one of the city’s many vibrant local markets. You know you’re approaching a market in Mexico when the streetscape becomes a touch rougher, a tad down at heel perhaps. Almost always there’s a sudden abundance of car part shops, chain-saw boutiques, plastic toy and sugary…
Author: paulandanthony
We're recently early retired from long and exhausting careers in Brand Design Strategy and TV Producing / Writing. After two long years of being trapped by COVID in our home town of Sydney Australia, we're ready to unfurl our wings and fly off on new adventures that will take us first up to Far North Queensland then the UK and Mexico - revisiting favourite places we haven't been to in over 30 years. Now living in Far North Queensland, Australia.
La Ciudad Blanca – First Impressions
The Centro historical district of Mérida remains largely intact and surprisingly recognisable – the streetscape seems unchanged with its famous pastel-coloured colonial houses (including ours for the next 3 months – the pink house in the first photo) and grand white-washed limestone palacios, churches and elegant cobbled squares and intimate gardens. I guess what is…
Viaje en Mérida
We had a rather mammoth journey over to Mérida. First out of London with a strong wind chasing our tail over to Amsterdam, which resulted in one aborted landing and a 10-min nervous go-around. Thankfully we missed Storm Eunice, Dudley was already pretty hairy. The new KLM Crown Lounge at Schiphol is really quite special…
Down in the Effra
We’re staying close to one of last remaining pockets of ancient woodland in Gipsy Hill with Norwood Park, one of the highest points in South London on our doorstep. The name Norwood is a reminder that it was once part of the dense forest of the ‘Great North Wood’ of Tudor times where Henry once…
Around and Around on the Underground
Since we’ve been here the weather has been remarkably mild and calm. Hardly any rain (other than today of course, just as I’m writing this) – and for this time of the year in deepest darkest winter you’d have expected some miserable cold weather. It has been occasionally gloomy, chilly and overcast but, on the…
The V&A – A Glorious Treasure Trove
The Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in Kensington has to be one of the greatest museums in the world for Art & Design – it’s packed with an endless treasure trove of fabulous objects spanning thousands of years. And being London, it’s free! It has a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects, from Medieval…
Out and About In London Town
We had a brief encounter with the lurgy AKA COVID when we arrived in the UK from Australia – the day two government-required test came back positive for one of us, inconclusive for the other. Go figure! No symptoms whatsoever though, but of course we had to isolate for the requisite 5 days. By day…
Rock Ferry Scouse
We were briefly in North Wales earlier in the week, Hawarden specifically, Ants’ ancestral home. It’s been 2 long years since we’ve been back, so it was lovely, as always to see Anthea. Family reunited. On a drive over to the Wirral, we went to Rock Ferry at Birkenhead with Liverpool looming across the murky…
In The Footsteps of Thomas Hardy
‘Had I but lived a hundred years ago I might have gone, as I have gone this year, By Warmwell Cross on to a Cove I know, And Time have placed his finger on me there.’ – Thomas Hardy From the steaming tropics of Far North Australia earlier in January to the stunning Jurassic Coast of Southern England…
Travels With My Ant 