Last weekend, I had a great chance to get a glimpse at true Mexico: a good friend had invited me to join him and his friends for a mariachi serenata. The occasion for this performance was one guy’s girlfriend’s birthday. Here’s how it works: you hire a (probably expensive) mariachi band with eight musicians on [...]

Warning: This post may be politically incorrect. I seem to be a fast learner and am learning some Mexican habits pretty fast. At the beginning, I always arrived on time or even a little early, fearing to miss something important. I then usually waited at least half an hour for the next early-comer to arrive [...]