Things to love about Oaxaca
It’s a month since I arrived back in Canada from a week in Oaxaca. I touched down in Toronto on the eve of Hurricane Sandy which, fortunately didn’t affect us much except to make the rainy, windy, dark...
View ArticleFlying into Oaxaca
I wish I could have taken photographs on the plane into Oaxaca. I don’t often talk about the actual transportation involved in travelling, but it’s obviously a big piece of the puzzle. Between the...
View ArticleThe Oaxaca Diaries: October 19, 2012, parte uno
4:30 pm I can’t believe we arrived in Oaxaca only about 24 hours ago. I’m in a café a couple doors down from our hotel. B is back at the hotel cooling off, but I’m out here pathetically searching for a...
View ArticleThe Oaxaca Diaries: October 19, 2012, parte dos
10:55 pm We just came back from an ultra late dinner of tlayudas at a tiny, family run restaurant just a couple doors down. The abuela cooks on a griddle out on the street while the daughter serves and...
View ArticleBreakfast, dinner and a cooking class with La Olla Restaurant, Oaxaca
One of the things that makes me feel like a local while travelling is to find a nearby neighbourhood restaurant and visit it more than once so that it becomes, in your mind, “your place.” There are...
View ArticleTop Eats of 2012
Last year, I publically re-capped my year in bites with the best eats of 2011. It was a simultaneously easy and challenging – we had eaten so well it wasn’t difficult to think of many wonderful meals,...
View ArticleThe Oaxaca Diaries: October 20, 2012
Today, we went on a tour with En Vía, an organisation that offers small interest-free loans to women in villages around Oaxaca. Samantha, a young woman from New Jersey who’s lived in Oaxaca for two...
View ArticleThe Oaxaca Diaries: October 21, 2012
2:33 pm This morning we went to Tlacolula and its famous, enormous Sunday market. It was filled with new sights, new smells, new tastes…WB would have loved it! We love exploring markets, and I think...
View ArticleMonte Albán and further absurdist adventures in Oaxaca
The morning started out sketchily. Our drivers were friendly enough, but being shuffled from unmarked van to unmarked van, surrounded by people speaking a language we didn’t understand, was slightly...
View ArticleThe Craft Route: Alebrijes in San Antonio Arrazola
One of the aspects of travel I love most, that I keep mentioning, is the juxtaposition of and vascillation between the sublime and the daily, the sometimes ridiculous. An introspective walk through...
View ArticleMy blog is still in Oaxaca: black clay and pink flowers (+ a recipe)
I admit this blog has felt a little neglected over the past few months. Since I last wrote, I’ve been to Europe and back, seen my sister-in-law married, and made some life-changing decisions. But my...
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