I love that even though the Yucatan has very few roads, and I’ve been down there more than a dozen times, there are still some roads I haven’t been on. Such as the road between Valladolid and Izamal, which passes through the village of Uayma. Where there’s this: I also had time to poke around [...]
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Fellow Queens-dwellers: I have room in my home office here in Astoria. I’d like to share it with you. So I’m instituting The 2011 Queens Writers Fellowship. That sounds so much grander than “come hang out at my house and write,” right? Seriously, here’s the deal: I love my home office. It’s sunny and has [...]
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OK, time for less narrative, more pretty pictures. Bees swarm the displays of sweets in every market. I always thought people must bring the bees with them, and put them out to show off how sweet their treats are. I mean, where the hell are the bees coming from in the middle of the city? [...]
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In Tizimin, I was driving around the main square, and I noticed there was an awful lot of horse shit in the street. “What happened here?” I wondered out loud. “Did we just miss a parade?” That was a little bit of a joke for my mom, who was in the passenger seat. See, she [...]
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I'm Zora O'Neill. I travel and eat. I'm a:
*Guidebook author for Lonely Planet, Moon and Rough Guides
*Co-author of cookbook Forking Fantastic! Put the Party back in Dinner Party
*Expert on Amsterdam, Egypt, New Mexico and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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