We set off early Sunday Morning for the largest outdoor Market in the Americas, Chichicastanago.
A short 2 hour drive brings us to the huge outdoor market with thousands of vendors from all over the highlands. Today the start of Santa Semana is the busiest I have ever seen – jammed packed full of people, rows and rows of vendors selling everything from fresh produce to brightly colour woven textiles, from cheap souvenir items to religious icons and artifacts, from furniture to fresh cut flowers; this massive market has it all. The market is so crowded we cut our visit short in favour in of getting to San Pedro La Laguna a little earlier than planned. It was a good thing as just when we arrived in San Pedro the skies opened of a tropical downpour of epic proportions.
Pueblos Mágicos, what an amazing way to break in the new year with the Travelling Brush. We had a small group of artists for this very unique art trip to of some of my favourite places in Mexico. Our group arrived January 3rd, starting our tour in this amazing Capital, if you have never been to Mexico City, there is a heap of cool things to see and do including some world class museums. Our first day included a visit …
I was attracted to this high vantage point because of the challenging perspective; as I painted I learned about Dubrovnik from the perspective of two locals caught in the daily riggers of mass tourism. Our painting group arrived in Dubrovnik after a beautiful drive down the coast from Split with a short interlude into Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to cross the Neretva River, along the famous 16th-century Ottoman bridge. Stari Most Bridge connects the two parts of the City …
I am lucky to have the opportunity to travel as much as I do and feel very fortunate to be in Croatia at this time, to explore such a beautiful country and discover my heritage. Once my group is on their way, I get the chance to visit the city of Rovijn in the Istria peninsula bordering Italy, and one of the first towns to fall to the Venetian empire in the 11th Century. Attacked several times over the next …
