Tuesday, 22. December 2009, 22:56:41
This, probably, is my last post for 2009, unless I get some spare time and find a good WiFi connection - I'm off in the morning to the Yucatan for my Christmas holiday. Everything is planned. The food has been bought. Hotels have been booked for our days away from home. I looked especially for a
Good Business Hotel and Monday Night Football - I'm not keen on missing any sports action at this key time in the season!
I should start a hotel review site really, seeing as I get to stay at a fair few each year. I could award them Mexile Stars perhaps, or even Moctezuma Stamps for those that disappoint! It's something for me to think about as I expand my 'blogging empire'!
Tuesday, 22. December 2009, 22:52:08
I've been blogging for a fair while now, across different platforms, in different styles. For more than six years in fact. But always with one theme - travel! Egypt, Mexico, Hungary, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Panama and more I've been posting about my experiences and sometimes the traumas! It's been a blast and one of the nicest things about blogging is the feedback.
It's nice to think that others will find my tips helpful, especially when it comes to travelling on a shoestring, which is very much my specialty! It has to be said as well that there are plenty of alternatives to mmy literary efforts when it comes to looking for a
Budget Travel Blog, and lots of them cover a much wider part of the world than I do. But still, I've enjoyed another year in another country or three, and I look forward to more travel blogging in the year to come!
Tuesday, 22. December 2009, 16:48:46
I've pretty much got all my Christmas shopping done now. At last. But still, I mustn't grumble, because it's so much easier than it used to be! Do you remember how things used to work before the internet? I do. I've always been a bargain hunter, loathe to pay more than I had to. I'd walk through several shopping centres over several days, looking for what I wanted to buy as gifts for friends and family. Then I'd walk them all over again looking to see who sells it at the lowest price. And inevitably there would be a third walk to choose new gifts because one or two of the items I'd decided on were now sold out.
It was wearing on my feet and patience! These days I just search the internet using price comparison engines to hunt dow the best deals for me. It doesn't matter what I'm looking for, even if it is
lawn mower for example. It's there. And the best price is there with it. Bless the internet!
Tuesday, 22. December 2009, 16:34:46
Christmas means friends, family, food, fun and films. The five f's if you like! I have got to be honest, the movies part is my favourite 'f', although it's all the better if there are some family and food there too to share in the fun! Every year I seem to watch the same olf movies, but they are just so Christmassy that they never seem to get old. The Wizard of Oz for example....it's hard to believe that film is rapidly getting on to be a 100 years old!
I prefer horror movies at this time of year though. Especially the old one. Dracula and other vampire flicks are great, whether it's a modern twist on an old tale, or a classic black and white version with Christopher Lee strutting his stuff. Just for fun, afterwards I might well check out the
free vampire chat rooms on the internet to see who else has their fangs in a horror filled Christmas this year too!
Saturday, 19. December 2009, 07:16:03
Christmas is, of course, my favourite time of year. You've probably gathered that much already. I love the lights, the Christmas songs on the radio, the food, the general cheerful atmosphere everywhere you go. And the parties! Most of all the parties! There will be plenty of them, at work, at home and because I'm travelling to Merida in Mexico's yucatan peninsula for Christmas this year, there will be parties in the streets!
Mexico is a great destination for Christmas, even if the hot and sunny days aren't quite what I'm used to back home. My in-laws have plenty of parties planned, all in the traditional Mexican style. Christmas dinner is prepared on the 24th ready for everyone to start eating at midnight. No one ever waits that long though. If they make it to eleven o'clock it's a miracle.
I do intend to introduce a few
party ideas of my own to the proceedings though, just to make my cultural presence felt! There will be Christmas crackers on the dinner table, and I shall play 'Auld Lang Syne' on New Years Eve. Plus some mince pies and Plum Pudding!
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