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This blog explores issues of living and working in Mexico in relation to the writers' activities of: 1. Teaching at the University of Guadalajara. 2. Supporting and setting up social and environmental projects in the South of Jalisco. 3. Consulting to organizations in Mexico and the rest of the world in leadership, team-work, organization development and sustainable development. 4. Travelling throughout Mexico. 5. Enjoying Mexican food and life in Mexico in general 6. Living in a small city, Ciudad Guzmán, in the South of the State of Jalisco
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Living and Working in Mexico · 1Y ago

Fiesta in Atemajac de Brizuela

Ciudad Guzmán, where I live, is a small city of around 100,000 people and the main commercial centre for the predominantly rural region of the south of Jalisco. It is surrounded by small towns, each of which – as I have come to appreciate more over the years I have lived here – has its [...]
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Living and Working in Mexico · 1Y ago

Huautla de Jiménez: in the footsteps of María Sabina and John Lennon

A couple of weeks ago, after a pleasant overnight stop in Tehuacán in the state of Puebla, I set off for Huautla de Jiménez, a small town high in the Mazatec sierra in the Northern corner of the state of Oaxaca, close to the border with the state of Puebla. Huautla is famous – or [...]
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Living and Working in Mexico · 1Y ago

Cuernavaca to Tehuacán

As part of the two week road trip I made in central Mexico in August, in one day I drove from Cuernavaca, in the state of Morelos, to Tehuacán in the state of Puebla, a distance of about 450 kms. It is possible to do this journey in a more direct manner going mostly on [...]
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Living and Working in Mexico · 1Y ago

Paragliding in Valle de Bravo: “¿Quieres chiflar o cantar?”

On my last morning in Valle de Bravo, I decided to go paragliding. After all, this was meant to be one of the prime spots in the world to do it, and I had already done it once before on the Isla de Juventud in Cuba, and if I had not then conquered my fear [...]
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Living and Working in Mexico · 1Y ago

Valle de Bravo

One of Mexico’s many charms is its endless capacity to surprise. I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting when I decided to visit Valle de Bravo as part of a two week road trip though the states of Estado de México, Morelos, DF and Oaxaca but Valle de Bravo has not been quite as [...]
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Living and Working in Mexico · 1Y ago

Return to Guanajuato

Of all the colonial cities in the center of Mexico – San Miguel de Allende, Morelia, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, each of which has its distinctive charms, and all of which, part from San Luis Potosí are UNESCO world heritage sites - my favourite, at least for the moment, is Gu
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Living and Working in Mexico · 2Y ago

A Good Laugh: Cultural Differences

There are obvious, clearly visible ways in which cultures differ from one another. They have different language, architecture, food, customs and behaviours. At this level, cultural differences are easy to recognise and relatively easy to negotiate and assimilate. But there are deeper levels in which
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Living and Working in Mexico · 2Y ago

Talpa

I first became aware of Talpa as a pilgrimage destination when I read Juan Rulfo’s bleak, acerbic short story called ‘Talpa’ in his brilliant collection of short stories set in the South of Jalisco “Llana en Llamas”. The mother of a friend here has invited me to make the pilgrimage with the local gr
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Living and Working in Mexico · 2Y ago

7 Reasons to live in Ciudad Guzmán

In a recent article I read about writing for the internet, which  claims it is different than other kinds of writing, the advice is to write lists. It seems people like lists. I have read this advice before on another specialist site for blog-writing. Yet I notice that on all the English language bl
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Living and Working in Mexico · 2Y ago

Take Care – Short Update on La Costa Michoacana.

Exactly one year ago, I wrote a post on the Michoacán coast. In this post, I extolled the wild beauty of the coast, its pristine beaches and lack of conventional tourist development. The coast has always had a reputation for danger – and it is still advisable not to travel at night – as there [...]
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