Is this really how Diego Rivera saw himself?
A stark, imposing facade in the historic centre of Cuernavaca, the Palace of Cortes is a pretty clear testament to the brooding mind of its original lord. Hernán Cortés, a […]
Tag Archives: Morelos
Morelos Journal 3: searching for Malcolm Lowry’s Quauhnahuac
Cuernavaca has always been an escape. First from the madness of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, later from the greater madness of Mexico City. In the twentieth century it became an […]
Morelos Journal 2: Wise Travellers come to Xochicalco
There was a time when the wise men of ancient Mexico came to Xochicalco. They came from Teotihuacan to the northish, from the Mayan lands to the southish eastish, and […]
Morelos Journal 1: Surprise Pilgrimage to the Mysterious Mountain Pyramid of Pulque
The wonders of Couchsurfing. With precious little time in Cuernavaca, I’d planned to arrive in the city and start rooting around for Malcolm Lowry relics. Instead I found myself heading […]
Javier Sicilia, Subcomandante Marcos and the Slow Road to Hope
Travelling Mexico, meeting people, staying in their homes, sitting down at their tables. The same question always insinuates itself into the conversation. Asked in a hundred different ways, the voices […]
