Author: FW North

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Making Chocolate in San Cristóbal

Anyone who has been following our travels through Mexico may have noticed we’ve mentioned chocolate a couple of times. OK, fine, plenty of times! It’s not really our fault though: the world’s infatuation with...

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Doors of San Cristóbal

During our coffee tour in Chiapas, we had the opportunity to visit the Mayan cemetery of El Romerillo. We found one of its most striking aspects to be the wood planks placed on top...

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A Coffee Tour in Chiapas

We usually tend to skip organized tours. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but we prefer to do and see things at our own speed. Nonetheless, there have been a few times when...

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Introducing San Cristóbal de las Casas

This is the current state of affairs: we are now on our second week in San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, and have just extended our stay for another...

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Travel Website Statistics: August 2013

As I’ve mentioned somewhere before, we did a bit of research through the labyrinthine recesses of the interwebs to prepare for our long-term travel adventure/descent into bankruptcy. We discovered most of the useful information...

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Dwindling Fortunes Update: August 2013

The cost of living in Mexico Our fourth month on the road has brought us more delicious food, plenty of sun, surfing lessons and the end of our travels through the Mexican state of...