While we were in the centre yesterday we visited the three main amber shops that we would like to film and made some initial enquiries and some interesting discoveries. They're all happy to talk to us and it seems happy to appear, some of them...
[caption id="attachment_1210" align="aligncenter" width="600"] El Andador Turístico[/caption] There wasn't much sleeping at all last night, it wasn't jet lag or tiredness, it's the Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon...
[caption id="attachment_1197" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Marimba band in Tuxtla's airport[/caption] We arrive at the little airport in Tuxtla Gutierrez, hot and busy, this marimba band in the photo welcomes visitors at full blast and we quickly see Alicia's smiling face, first a colleague in the last documentary...
This morning it hit me, as soon as I tasted the chilaquiles for breakfast I knew I was here, it brought back memories from previous trips; when I smelled shoe polish passing a shoe shine stand in the airport, I was back in San Cristobal....
Paul and I arrive in the evening after a surprisingly pleasant, though very long, flight from Paris and, I have to say, the best plane food I've ever had, Air France un point. We scramble through the hectic arrival hall in Benito Juarez's airport and...