Taxco

Our last stop is in the pretty colonial and old mining town Taxco a couple of hours south of Mexico City. We have enjoyed a couple of days here walking the narrow streets and sipping cappuccino in the sun. Today (Monday) we head back for Mexico City and tomorrow we board the plane for Denmark...

On the beach...

...No comment necessary!!

Mexico - Pie de la Questa

We are now enjoying a week at the beach... We have found a wonderful hotel ('Villa Nirvana') situated right on the beach. We have a great view from our room, which has a balcony with a hammock with room for two. Amazing place to relax before heading for cold and dark DK...

Runner's diary - part II
Yesterday morning, Carsten went for a run along the beach. At the end of the beach, small dots appeared in the sky and an angry recruit came running with a machine gun in his hand, telling Carsten to turn around. Looking back, Carsten realized that the dark dots were paratroopers training for combat...

Wedding (Mexico Part III)

On December 9, Azucena and Gallo got married in a village church south of Mexico City. It was a very romantic ceremony - even though the priest named Gallo 'Louis' a couple of times... Azucena was beautiful in her white dress and Gallo was very proud!

Carsten was wearing a traditional Mexican shirt - just like the majority of the male guests. The party was held in a garden, where we were served tacos and tequila. The dinner, however, was not the main thing. Rather, it was finished in less than an hour - quite different from a Danish wedding. Dancing started at 8 pm and went on till the end of the night. Amazing wedding party:-)

Picture 1 depicts Azu and her younger sisters, Grisel and Najielli (sorry about spelling mistakes...), picture 2 is the happy couple and the fourth picture shows Azu's father walking his daughter up the aisle.

Teotiuhuacan - mexico part II

thursday we went to the fantastic pyramids outside mexico city. a fantastic experience. we apologize that these messages are short but we are just about to leave for the wedding...

pictures for part I

Civil wedding - Mexico Part I

On December 5 Azucena and Gallo had their civil wedding in Mexico City. It was a great and sunny day with good food at Gallo's mothers place and mariachies - the traditional mexican musicians...

Southern cooking (US Part VIII)

When you are in the Southeast of the US, there are at least three different venues you should visit to try out authentic Southern cooking.... Of course, we tried those three;-)

One is Waffle House, which - as the name suggests - is known for its waffles. And they are indeed yummy! Anne Sofie is enjoying one with maple sirup in picture 1. The place also had a juke box with a listing of old and new country music. Fortunately, Carsten succeeded in finding some music that was a bit less 'country' than average...

The second place to hang out for 'some good ol' eating' is the favourite place of the locals. In Cartersville, that place is known as 'Doug's Place' (picture 2) named after the owner who used to work in the mine (where Raymond worked until he retired a couple of years ago). The guy thought that the area needed a place with proper country cooking and decided to open a restaurant. Supposedly, he had a slow start, since he set out to do all the cooking himself - without much experience, that is... These days, it is one of the most popular places to eat around Cartersville. And it sure is gooood! We tried out chicken, baked sweet potatoes, fried green tomatoes, okra, biscuits and hush puppies (kind of sweet corn bread) - and of course, it was all washed down with iced sweet tea:-)

A third place to go is the Cracker Barrel (picture 3), which is decorated like an old country store. The restaurants are located along the interstate, and serve good ol' country meals. We went there for a full Southern breakfast, which includes grits (porridge made of grounded corn; you either hate it or love it), eggs, bacon, fried apples, and - of course - biscuits (close to English scones but more salty) and gravy (filling white sauce). Shelby made sure that we tasted the corn bread as well... we did not need to eat much more that day!