¡¡Adios Australia.. Hola México!!

It is the eve of my departure... oh joy!
What awaits me? As usual I don't have too much of a plan...

what I do know is that my first stop is a return to the telephone-less, loud speaker enthusiast, costal village of Huaspaltepec for Año Nuevo.. New Years.. where I hear they shoot guns to celebrate the strike of midnight. yesss.

this trip I have a few goals: I want to spend some quality time with pyramids of all shapes and sizes, visit Guatemalan villages to learn Mayan language and pay my respects (with an offering of cigars and booze) to the deity Maximon.. umm. and eat lots.

and perhaps grow a(nother) monobrow...

how sweet it is...

So this one is food themed... hang on.. pretty much all of my blogs are food themed?! Ah well, lets pretend they're not, and all be super excited that this one is special and unique...

I have eaten some super strange things over the last six months - yep it's been half a year already - and here is a little list of highlights. I am proud to have been culinarily adventurous... wee hee how fun it is to say culinarily adventurous.. try cunningly culinarily adventurous... I diverge, here is the list

chapulines - crunchy grasshoppers cooked in lemon, chilli, tomatoe and salt. Good with beer, an alternative to peanuts?
tacos de cesos - brain tacos.. hmm.. yeah they were ok actually
sangre - coagulated blood.. not my favourite
tongue stew - look back through my ramblings for the story of the stew..
nopales - cactus! yummy.. in all different fashions..
nicoatole - jelly made from maize, milk and cinnamon.. with a skin of red sugar on top.. one of my favourites
tejate - this is a traditional drink made with cocoa and it has a froth of cocoa fat on top.. delicioso pero peligroso!
fried bull liver (I can't remember the name in Spanish) - actually I didn't like this much, so I wrapped it up in my napkin and gave it to some street dogs...

And here is a photo homage to icecream... quite a few of these were taken in the deserted Coney Island..

xxx I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream xxx

I was having trouble deciding which is better, ice cream or paintings of ice cream... I think the verdict is in... If I ever get divorced from my Mexican puppet man with guns husband, the next in line is the ice cream with moustache man. love.

Chronicle II - Buenos Aires. city of Lone Wolves

Thats right, lone wolves... an entire city full of Anthony Keidis (Under the Bridge phase) ponytails, bad attitudes and sexy eyes - you know that kind of half open - part sleepy, part gonna tear your clothes of - look? That one. There must be something in the water, or a special class that Argentinian men take in primary school.. I like it..

I was living in a beautiful apartment with a crazy chef who taught me a lot of colourful language - my favourite 'la renegrida conche de tu madre' too colourful to translate.. And the other housemate was an eccentric Canadian artist, who was hand writing the entire works of Shakespear!

Yeah I like Buenos Aires.. lots and lots of great food, almost every corner has a gelato store.. great wine, amazing vintage markets and shops.. and SO cheap. There is so much amasing street art, but the streets are FULL of dog poo!! But they have crazy decorated buses with fringed curtains in the windows which make up for that.. And all of the dog walkers are hot!



this thing was prunes and figs on a skewer, dipped in toffee and rolled in popcorn.. why? why the heck not!


I love this lady! You can't see them, but she was wearing white gloves too.. I'm going to be her in 30 years or make that 3..



I don't know what it was about this caravan and tree combo but it enchanted me.. I stood for a good few minutes imagining how great life could be if I lived in that caravan right there and ate gelati and flan and choripan (Argentinian staple food - choritzo hotdog with special sauce) every day for ever more...

And here are some more randoms for good measure.. here's to Señor Sandwich and the worlds cutest empanada

Picky Pickys

So I broke my vow to create chronicles.. it's ok, it may happen?
But don't be too disappointed because look.. I have finally uploaded some photos.. Hoorah! These ones are quite recent and I have thousands to go through.. look and learn. or just look and like. They are a bit nonsensical, but so am I..



Look! Wow... it is beautiful Rio de Janeiro.. hang on.. no, it is an enlarged photo of Rio on the wall of the food court in Rio airport.
Well I was too scared to take photos anywhere else... I was robbed.. gimme a break!


Mi querido Me-hi-co...





muchachas bonitas que me encanta...





dulces and balloons and piggies.. oh my!




why ever would you want high resolution-60000 dpi-full saturation printing... when you can simply paint a marketing masterpiece instead..



catholicism at every corner... including the corner of my corner store!