Anyone who has spoken to me over the past year would have heard all of this already, however for the sake of documenting the planning process on my DW blog - and an excuse to look at pretty photos ...... We're going to Mexico in October!!!

I've long had a fascination with the Aztecs, Mayans and Latin America in general ( I think the TV series Flight of the Condor in the 80's triggered my interest in the Americas) and as a child, whilst most kids were fascinated by Egypt, for me it was the temples and pyramids of the Americas that I longed to visit but never thought I would - after all, its all dangerous isn't it? ;-)
Plans were set in motion after the James Bond film, featuring the then-fictitious Dia de Los Muertos parade, and my talking about it with my Mexican/American colleague who convinced me it was totally doable.
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I've long had a fascination with the Aztecs, Mayans and Latin America in general ( I think the TV series Flight of the Condor in the 80's triggered my interest in the Americas) and as a child, whilst most kids were fascinated by Egypt, for me it was the temples and pyramids of the Americas that I longed to visit but never thought I would - after all, its all dangerous isn't it? ;-)
Plans were set in motion after the James Bond film, featuring the then-fictitious Dia de Los Muertos parade, and my talking about it with my Mexican/American colleague who convinced me it was totally doable.
( Read more... )
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