California - on the road

We set off from a hospitable home of Terenia and John Offenbacker's in Los Altos Hills, California, to explore the southern States. California is whimsical from time to time and today has treated us with rain and mist and the temperature around + 5 C. But oranges get ripe anyway, so Tereni...

Good-bye to Mexico

After a three-hour flight from Mexico, we are sitting at the Phoenix, Arizona airport waiting for our connecting flight to San Francisco. We bid good-bye to Mexico after a five-day stay in the capital. This city is overwhelming, tiring, amazing, and fascinating at the same time. It's very ...

Sunday night in the Capital

Yestarday, on Sudnay, we went through a great amazement! Thos crazy Mexicans do not party on Sundays! So, alike in Europe, the UsA and other societies take a rest after the hardships of the weekend and prepare themselves for the coming long week of wwork. There were merely some restaurants and pu...

Sunday in the Capital

We are enjoying our Sunday together with the citizens of the Capital: 1) In the morning we were in the Chapultepec Park: 'The Danza de los Voladores (Dance of the Flyers), or Palo Volador (Pole Flying), is an ancient Mesoamerican ceremony/ritual still performed today, albeit in ...

The beauty of the residential Xalapa

Xalapa - almost a one million inabitants city - is famous for its good university, a non-tiring climate, lack of fussing around tourists and intensive cultural life. The city doesn't have much to offer to tourists like us, so we are going to show you what the Columbus's descendants used to live l...

Polish lady in Xalapa

Today the entry will be about Krystyna - one more Polish lady who is successful in Mexico, and about her parten Juan who is a sculptor but he creates just everything... Krystyna left Poland about 15 years ago with a Veracruz University scholarship in an exchange univeristy programme. She g...

Beaches of Veracruz

Today in Xalapa and its vicinity was a misty and drizzly day with the temp. of 15C. We drove to the coast close to Veracruz where it was a sunny but windy day with the temp. of 20C. Juan and Krystyna took us in their jeep for a whole day trip. Wer had a company of their pointer dog - Lola....