We spent our anniversary doing pretty much what we’ve been doing the last seven days – not much (up early for a walk and a swim, a brief attempt at work thwarted today by internet issues), but then the exception this morning of a brief jaunt along windy roads into the nearest ‘town’, Puerto Angel….

Our 28th Anniversary today, 1st September. 28 years strong. What a place to celebrate here in Zipolite. We’ve been in Mexico now for 2 months and having the time of our lives. One more week here then we’re off back down to Chile. The journey continues…

The cult Mexican ‘coming of age’ road movie ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ was filmed in part here, the beach scenes anyway, and Zipolite largely retains its hippie-esque alternative and laid-back vibe. The routine continues: up with the light, breakfast, emails and a couple of hours of attempted concentration on work, then before lunch a pants-free…

Of course the wonderful upside of it being so quiet here is we get full attention, the pick of tables in the restaurant at any time of the day or night, chatty friendly staff, choice of beach beds, and the opportunity to change rooms to experience the delights of being both on the beach in…

‘Where the 60s never end A continuation of The Original Situation Welcoming the Return of the Flower Children’ At the end of our cove there’s a very tatty ghostly pile called (Gloria’s) Shambhala (more like Shambolic) – as previously mentioned, it’s as if The Addams Family had a Mexican holiday home, or as one review…

We were woken by a spectacular pre-dawn electrical storm in our light-box of a room in the jungle canopy, setting today’s weather on the wild side of perfect. The storm quickly rolled out to sea but set the humidity high and the winds in overdrive. So rather than a dawn walk on the beach we…

But the days here in August are blazing hot and sunny, yes with high humidity at times and the occasional evening downpour, but even that lasts for about half an hour, and then it’s clear. At the risk of outing this wonderful destination, you’d be hard pressed to find a more chilled out place and…

Blissful solitude continues here in Zipolite. Apparently this place is packed in the northern winter months, with the next-door hotel (Hotel Nude) flying Canadian, German and Norwegian flags amongst others, obviously for travellers escaping their arctic environs, but right now it’s a smattering of holidaying Mexicans, a lovely young couple from Bavaria (Carina and Alexander)…

The sun doesn’t rise here until 7.13am (setting at 7.42pm) with spectacular colours as the light emerges. At this early hour there’s no one but us and a few beach dogs that hurtle towards us barking, then lose interest and carry on wrestling and rolling in the surf. What a life! As I mentioned earlier,…

  Driving south out of Puerto Escondido, for an hour or so down to Zipolite, is an interesting journey, full of diversions, most notably that the road often switches to the other side into oncoming traffic without any notice, or seemingly care! It makes for a hair-raising drive, especially without seatbelts, with the ubiquitos ‘topes’…