Things I miss about Mexico

1. The music everywhere
2. Speaking Spanish
3. Mexican soup
4. How you always get a bowl of halved limes with everything
5. The beautiful colonial buildings
6. The bright colours. If the house next to you is painted orange, paint your house purple. If the upstairs is green, why not paint the outside of the bottom half pink?
7. The tropical plants and luscious vegetation
8. The smell of coffee
9. The cafes and bars of Xalapa
10. The hilly cobbled streets of Xalapa (impossible to walk in heels)
11. The friendliness of the people
12. Comida corrida
13. UV campus
14. Street food. I crave a torta de tamale con salsa roja
15. Having a maid clean for us everyday
16. Mexican long distance, first class buses
17. Chilaquiles
18. Our friends in Xalapa
19. The snow capped volcano that you could see from our apartment
20. Someone did my washing for me and I didn't iron at all
21. Cafe con leche at El Peroquia
22. Freshly squeezed orange juice
23. The pharmacies where you can buy everything - including beer!
24. The relaxedness (I know this isn't a real word but you know what I mean)
25. People really say the "mi casa / tu casa" thing and mean it!
26. Empanadas
27. Cowboy hats
28. Fields of edible cacti
29. People riding horses and donkeys in small towns
30. The incredible Totanaca ruins that are rarely visited. It's like they are a secret.
40. Beaches
41. Cheap cinemas
42. Chili seco sauce
43. The sound of corn tortillas being shaped (slap, slap, slap)
44. The smell of corn tortillas being cooked
45. Easy access to wireless Internet

Anything I wasn't so excited about? Not much. I loved Mexico, but here goes:

1. My usual tea complaint. I'm like a broken record. Not Mexico's fault.
2. Xalapa weather
3. Traffic

This concludes my Mexico blog. I might try and keep up with my Japan one this year.... http://jomynard.blogspot.com/