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’…

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