I joined for a long week end (close to a week actually: 6 days) my father and sister in the Yucatan, Mexico. Pictures are here.
It was a wonderful trip and I didn’t expect it to be so nice: I thought it was a very touristic region, and we traveled during the rainy season. We actually had a wonderful weather (wonderful for the region: so still warm and humid, but bearable) and the mass-tourism is concentrated on certain beaches (Cancun, Playa del Carmen) and sites (Cobà, Chichen Itza). Here is a suggested itinerary of what to do for a long week end in the Yucatan ! Continue reading ‘Visit Yucatan, Mexico: Mayan Ruins, Colonial Cities, Turquoise Sea’
Yes, it’s true: I did it. I spent the week end in an all-inclusive resort in Dominican Republic (Iberostar Bavaro).
Me, Laurent Kretz. The backpacker guy who swore he would never do such a thing. The guy who slept in Laos villages on the Chinese border for $0.50 a night watching kids smoke opium with their grandparents (album here). The guy who experienced the 14 centuries old Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, Syria (album, wikipedia). The adventurous backpacker who climbed the cliffs of the Kawah Ijen volcano with the sulfur-carriers on Java, Indonesia (album, wikipedia). To name a few.
Continue reading ‘Yes, it’s true: I did it.’
I eventually finished sorting my pictures from our trip in Guatemala !
The texts are written, photos cropped, flickr slide-shows and youtube videos embedded.
Our trip was a beautiful backpacking adenture that led us from amazing Mayan ruins to raging volcanoes, crossing holy lakes and facing howler monkeys in the jungle. To make it short. ;-)
Continue reading ‘A travel journal from Guatemala’
Rodeo show at madison square garden :-)
Xmas trees cemetery @ Tompkins square. What a shame ……
A Citroen 2CV on St Marks Place, New York. Right in front of my building !
(via laurentkretz)
At the end of november, an accident between a police car and a mini-motorbike left two teenagers on the ground. The same night, as well as the following ones, Villiers-Le-Bel, a suburb 20mn from Paris where the accident happened, became the stage of violent riots between the police and local youths. As always, molotov cocktails were launched at the police, washing machines carcasses and heavy steel balls were falling from the roofs on the firemen, cars were being burnt - the usual.
Continue reading ‘Cop shootings in France’
Somewhere, in the basement or attic of my parents’ house, there must be an old box with “Photos / Laurent” written on it. In this box, there must tens of photo albums and thousands of pictures. One of them must be of my best friend Michael, in Budapest in the mid 90’s, proudly leaning on a beautiful Trabant.
Continue reading ‘My best friend got his dreamcar … A Trabant !’
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