We don't need anything but tacos and amigos

... and we hadn't had our dosis in two years! It was about time we went to Mexico, and what we did was mainly being with friends, and eating tacos for two weeks!

Barbacoa tacos for breakfast

And that, kids, is how you eat a taco...

Delicious lunch at El Granero

Coconut ice-cream in El Porvenir, Tampico

Flan con cajeta

Playing like kids in a Lego corner in Liverpool department store

Richard's construction (note the slightly disproportionate watch tower!) 

Ferris wheel in Monterrey

My beloved Cerro de la Silla in the background

Parque Fundidora

La víbora del mar: traditional dance at Mexican wedding, very dangerous to perform in high heels and long dress...)

Ballet de Monterrey

Carne asada (Mexican BBQ: bigger, better, not faster but more delicious!)

I mean look at that melting cheese on nopal... *sigh*

And that, kids, is a proper clamato...

"So those cotton wool things in the sky are called clouds, you said? That's just beautiful" (you need to have lived years in the Middle East to understand that...)

Tostadas de ceviche, los Arcos, Monterrey

Typical view around Monterrey, nothing fancy but I love it

Stayin' alive

In case you wondered, we are still alive still my last post (I won't remind us when it was, we both know it was way too long ago...). I won't even try to find excuses, because I don't have any, except the lack of inspiration / desire to write anything... But we've done a couple of cool things in this first half of the year, and one of them was a trip to Dubai at the end of February (please don't count of many months ago that was, that's shameful enough...!). We had a great time, Richard fulfilled his dream of skydiving (above the Palm, a great spot!), we attended a great Santana concert, and we had a great dining experience at Al Mahara restaurant in Burj-al-Arab.

Dubai skyline from afar (Burj Khalifa on the left)

Upside down Heineken bar at the concert venue

Carlos Santana

Burj al Arab lobby

Aquarium at the Al Mahara restaurant

Probably the fanciest dessert I've ever had

The aquarium's star, a humphead wrasse

The entrance to Al Mahara

Burj al Arab lobby

Looking up the tip of the sail

The Lion King - live!

Please forgive my ignorance... my only African reference thus far was Disney's The Lion King. And a great reference indeed! I found the South African land just as I had expected!

The setting

Thorny bush and dry savanna

Antilopes

An impala

A kudu (until a week ago, I had thought that was a cheap, tasteless fast-food chain from KSA)

Zebras

A beautiful elephant

Look at the baby elephant, it was only a couple of days old and still struggled to walk

And baby elephant is up on its feet again!

A giraffe

White rhinos

A beautiful, big cat (also called a cheetah!)

A cheetah female with her three cubs

The Pride Rock...

... and the pride! 

Mustafa/Scar (he's actually scarred on the face, and blind on the right eye)

Grooming as any other cat would...

Isn't he sweet?

Sarabi (Simba's mum)

Sweet lionesses...

... and their darker side! Eating off a zebra kill

The deadly buffaloes

Shanzi and Banzai, waiting for a dinner opportunity

Zazu!

Rafiki

the vultures

the Elephant Graveyard

Pumba!

A beautiful place on the Indian Ocean coast, near Mozambique

I enjoyed each of my first steps on the African continent and can only look forward to going again!