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’…

Seriously, there’s hardly anyone here. It’s the ‘wet season’ which means the occasional late afternoon rolling storm, some night rain then clear blue skies and hot days. The humidity is high I guess, making it feel much hotter than it probably is. Even the cabbies are saying ‘mucho calor’ so it must be hot for…

I’ve been playing the waiting game with FedEx now for over a week – waiting for customs to release my laptop and send it to me down here in Puerto Escondido…but of course with all things MEXICO, it’s about despacito, a common theme whilst being here as you know. Hey, I don’t mind, as long…

A lazy Sunday at Carrizalillo – and being Domingo, we had another Coco Loco – and yes, it’s still brilliant and still Mexico’s greatest invention! Again, nothing to report apart from a surfing dachshund which was of course brilliant.

As you may know, my fairly new MacBook Pro (please don’t buy one of these until they fix the BIG problem*) has broken down, so I’ve arranged for my older AirBook Mac to be sent from Sydney via FedEx to Puerto Escondido. A huge thanks to Tony and Paola for arranging this!!! Tracking is wonderful,…

Nothing much to report Week 7 Another 3 weeks here on the southern Mexican coast Turning to jelly A musical interlude perhaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk A storm rolling over the area with some loud thunder, some welcome rain and the occasional power cut Heaven  

This morning was meant to be the ‘big day’, the major Surf Comp for Zicatela in August (in honour of a local twenty-year old surfing hero who died in a car crash just recently). But sunrise revealed what we suspected yesterday, massive surf – and I mean HUGE 20 feet+ surf which even the die-hard locals (that’s…

Day 12 here in Puerto Escondido and we’ve embraced the concept of ‘despacito’ – slowing it down, real slow. As planned, our mornings are taken up with work – Ants writing from 7am with a pot of coffee on the go, whilst I’m doing some work for a Melbourne Design Agency, so the aim is…