Ola! Life is good. Mexico is very cool. Lots of culture, architecture, singing, dancing, food. Spannish is coming along slowly, and I bought a guitar for 25 pounds to lug about with me, thats going ok too.

From Mazatlan I headed south to a small island called Mexicalitan in the middle of no where, spent a night there then headed to Guadalajara and stayed in a brothel for 3 nights, everyone was very friendly. Saw a great exhibition there of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a french photographer who specializes in Arial Photography, you may have seen it before, they had loads of his pictures blown up to huge sizes and displayed in the town square, with agiant map of the world showing where the pictures where taken.

From there, I took a bus up to Guanajuato, a beautiful city from Colonial Spain, full of cool little tunnels and streets going up the sides of a valley. UNESCO herritage site. Met some US students studying at University there, and reminded me how nice it was to be a student, also meta french student studying at IberoAmericana, the University in Mexico City that Hull exchanges with, he told me about some cheap accomodation he is in, so I am now looking at Studying again. Im in Mexico city at themoment, which is fantastic, and heading to the University this afternoon to check it out.

Term starts in January so I will have amonth to travel about before I start, thinking of Cuba, Guatamala, Nicaragua, that sort of area. Mexico is cool. www.statravel.co.uk have some good deals to Mexico City, so if you are thinking of visiting me, check it out. so far, appears no moer dangerous than anywhere else, although many more armed guards and police about here than elsewhere, brandishing shot guns and sub machine guns.

Met lots of other backpackers which Id missed for a while, not to many, not too few is good for company.

not coming home for xmas, as too far and too expensive, I will find somewhere nice to spend it. Half way through Genome, book about evolution, tough going, but interesting.

Over and out.