I need to write a few more blog posts about my recent trip to Mexico, but in the meantime I finally got round to uploading the photos I took during the trip. Here they are: … [Read more...] about Photos from Mexico
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Exploring Yucatán
I'm currently in Mexico for a few days. I'll be spending most of my time exploring the Yucatán peninsula, which is rich in Mayan heritage. The only other time I was in Mexico was several years ago and that was Mexico city only. This time I'll be travelling around a little. Originally I was meant to be coming here for a work related event which was kicking off at the … [Read more...] about Exploring Yucatán
South African Chutney
When I travel to a new country I like to explore the supermarkets. I have a habit of picking up local delicacies or simply popular foods. Assuming of course that they aren't perishable and will fit in my bag. So when I go to Spain I'll pick up a few tins of seafood as well as chorizo and lomo. When I'm in France I might pick up mustards and paté, while in the US I tend to opt … [Read more...] about South African Chutney
Blogging, Writing and More
I first started blogging using one of my personal domains back in November 2003. Back then I was using mneylon.com as my main personal domain. Since then I switched over to michele.me and then, more recently, over to michele.blog. For historical reasons my blog used to live under "/blog", but when I moved over to michele.blog I moved it to the domain root. That means that … [Read more...] about Blogging, Writing and More
2019 Travel Stats
Unlike last year I don't have any more trips planned before the very end of the year, so I'm "done" for 2019. Of course I will be doing a few trips around Ireland before the end of the year, though I don't count them towards my overall numbers for the year. In 2019 I got to spend plenty of "quality time" on planes and in airports and clocked up over 209 thousand … [Read more...] about 2019 Travel Stats