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A 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 history nerd travelling The New World. ¿What could possibly go wrong? Join me on my way to The fabled lands of Ar Wladfa 🇦🇷

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  • The Road to Chiapas part 1. Hola todos. Today we start out on the road to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas. This journey is quite a long one from Oaxaca city, it is about a 350 mile journey however that is not exactly a straight line or an easy motorway, this route goes all through various mountain…

  • Final day in Oaxaca. Hola todos. Sunday was the final day in Oaxaca City. As to what to do today I had two choices, it was either do a tour of Hierce el Agua, which would have been a 9 hour tour and was a bit late to book onto yesterday anyway or take it…

  • aturday market madness! Hola todos. Last one to bring you up to speed with things. So as I mentioned last. I woke up today really rather depressed over a lot of different things too much to elaborate but lo que hay. Off we go to start the day. First up to to take a hot…

  • iajeros y Duendes! Hola hola! Got a fun one for you today! So we left off heading over to Hostel Viajero to have a drink and say ye or nay. So i rock up there and head up to the terrace bar. It’s pretty busy and the cervezas are flowing. It’s a ye from me…

  • Hola todos. Been a few days since the last blog. This last few days has been a low point on this trip so just to mash the events of the last few days together.  Thursday was an admin day between hanging round after checking out of that hotel and having to wait to 15:00 to…

  • Día 33 – excursión a Monte Albán  Hola todos disculpa por la tardanza with the blogging. Long story short I’ve been staying in a place where the WiFi has just been dogshit and have had to watch my data usage hence the delay on the blog. After my arrival in Oaxaca I spent Tuesday exploring…

  • Day 31? Arrival in Oaxaca. Hola todos. Late blog as had issues with the SIM and the place I’m staying at didn’t have reliable WiFi so had to leave it until today. I was up and out on time for my 10.00 bus to Oaxaca. It was a 5.5 hour ride and it got busy…

  • Hello everyone, an extra blog for yesterday to give a bit of a post mortem on Puebla. It’s also now a full month into this Grand Misadventure of mine! Puebla post mortem: So how has Puebla been overall? Despite the downer end to it I am willing to put it down as a moderate success.…

  • Hola todos! Getting up this morning it has been exactly a full month since setting out from Wales and I am about to be heading out of Puebla south to Oaxaca. Unfortunately the last few days here haven’t been great and it’s ended on a bit of a low point if I am being honest.…

  • Day 8/27 – Parks and Nightmares! Hello everyone. Well the last 2 days have been a bit of a blur since Cholula. Thursday I didn’t end up doing much of anything although my gothic friend has invited me to her birthday bash on Saturday and she told me where the venue was – a bar…