[caption id="attachment_1403" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Paul with Juanita with her fruit trees[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1404" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Their chicken-turkey-duck coop[/caption] We decided not to stay for the celebrations when we arranged the visit, partly because we didn't want to compromise these people into inviting us, since when we come...
You can get from anywhere to anywhere in Mexico, in a combination of road transport: big buses, half buses, pick-up trucks and my favourite, the combis, old Volkswagen vans. Outside the main bus depot in San Cristobal, groups of combis organised by destination gather on...
[caption id="attachment_1378" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Ah, a dog's life! Cacaroto living it up.[/caption] It's the 30th of December and we've been trying to find a day between all the filming when we can head out to visit the family from our previous project, who we've kept in...
[caption id="attachment_1371" align="aligncenter" width="600"] El Andador Turístico in San Cristóbal de Las Casas[/caption] After the short rest, Paul is able to stand straight again without contraptions and the two of us head into the centre to arrange shooting in a few of the amber shops. Naturally, they...
[caption id="attachment_1284" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Christmas elves in another procession[/caption] So it's the 25th and as I write this, now back in “real time”, it's mid-day for me, 6pm in Ireland, and I have been finishing and tidying up my posts before uploading them; I'm anxious to do...
On the Sunday after we return, the 23rd of December, we back up all our footage, go through it, clean some clothes and in general settle back in for the rest of the work, but we're also going to take the next two days off,...
