Three Guatemalan musicians and their instruments in the streets of Antigua, Guatemala just after dusk on December 23 2014.
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CORNERS OF THE CITY # 3: BUG ZAPPER CORNER
A faint click…, click…., tick…. comes from somewhere in the distance, mixing with other sounds of the street; clangs, whistles, horns, calls…pasele, cuántos te damos? Advancing on calle lopez in the centro histórico the sound grows louder. I reach the corner with victoria, a block back from metro San Juan de Letran on Eje Central. I pause at a point where so often I stride […]
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CORNERS OF THE CITY # 2: EJE CENTRAL AND……. (TRIPLE DOSE)
Three months ago I inaugurated this planned series of Mexico City corners with my post about the Triple Alliance Garden on the corner of Tacuba and Filomena Mata in the historic centre. Although I’ve passed by and stopped on plenty of interesting corners of the city I neglected to add a follow up post. Until now. Today I […]
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TIPS FOR VISITING TEPITO (TRANSLATION)
Tepito is the most imfamous zone of Mexico City. Known for drugs, muggings, and violence amongst other criminal activity, it is also a busy street shopping and market district known for the prevalence of pirated, illegal goods. The following is my translation from an article which appeared on the Chilango website. The original in Spanish […]
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URUGUAYAN TIMES
A few years ago I spent around four days, if I remember correctly, camping at the Club de Pescadores (Fisherman’s Club) in the western Uruguayan town of Paysandú. I was there for the renowned semana de la cerveza which sounds a whole lot more civilized than ‘beer week’. Each day followed a similar pattern. I […]
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CORNERS OF THE CITY # 1: JARDIN DE LA TRIPLE ALIANZA
While I was walking around the streets of Mexico City’s centro historico a couple of weeks back, I had an idea to start a series of snapshots of interesting corners that I come across in my wanderings in the city. Of course, the streets of the Mexican capital hold all sorts of intrigue beyond the corners. For months I […]
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NIÑOS BOGOTANOS (BOGOTÁ BOYS)
In late May I spent an afternoon in central Bogota walking around the historic district of La Candelaria, eating the typical dish of bandeja paisa and drinking cerveza colombiana. Late in the afternoon just before beginning the journey back to El Dorado International Airport I came across a mural with the smiling, laughing faces of little boys. […]
Read moreFOLK ALONG THE WAY: SMALL TOWN HONDURAS
Trojes is a small Honduran town across the border from Jalapa, Nicaragua. It is not frequented much by travellers. They seemed quite surprised to see me at the border. I rode into town on the back of a pick-up on a dusty and rutted road and not long after the journey started my cap flew […]
Read moreFRIDA KALLEJERA, FRIDA TRANSSEXUAL, FRIDA AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE
“Performance Art”: On the streets of downtown Mexico City opposite ‘La Alameda’ Park.
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CALLEJON DE HAMEL – HAVANA, CUBA
Callejon de Hamel – probably the most colourful area of Havana, Cuba. Great murals! I visited late one afternoon in 2011 and had the place pretty much to myself.
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LATIN AMERICA FOCUS 