This handy little video gives a beginner’s guide to RSS. Anyroad, I was struck by a photo of the Panteon from a couple of days ago and how much it looked like the RSS icon, I swivelled it a bit and hey presto, subscribe with this artesanal feed icon:

Edit 1: D’oh, just when I’m publicising it my permalinks are down, probably to do with having 3 blogs on the site. Our technicians are working on it…

Edit 2: Our technicians fixed the problem at 09.56 hours Mexican time. Despite not having a clue how to manage the .htaccess file.

Edit 3: Have a load of other one click links to add this nonsense to your favourite feed reader:

(but stop using bloody America On Line, please)

have already got their heads round how to do this…

Sita, Monica and I nipped over to Tequila again this afternoon. We planned to look up the Columpio folks and give them some photos from last time and some UK coins but I left them on the table when we left, so that’ll have to be next time. We’ll probably be back within a week though as there’s some new archives that Sita’s just discovered. Luckily I remembered me camera. Have an eyeful here of the set. And again, here’s me 3 faves:

Just for the record, the tequila museum’ll set you back 15 pesos, unless you’re a student or over 60, and Mundo Cuervo (a state of the art tequila manufacturing theme park) is MX$100 including a tiny little margarita at the end of the tour and a few samples. It’s a good introduction to all things agave but was a bit too slick and corporate for my tastes, it lacks the enthusiastic-newcomer feel of La Cofradia and olde worlde charm of Columpio. And there’s the whole Hair Net Issue…

PS… 6,066 photos / 27,657 views …

… but here’s a video I found via VivirGuadalara.com for people who want to see the cows, but suffer from attention deficit disorder: Cow Parade #1 and shorter but equally frenetic Cow Parade #2 de Guanatos, Mex. Just because you have the tools to edit videos like this doesn’t necessarily mean you should use it. Or you risk it looking like a Kenny Everett sketch from 1983

Now I’m definitely off to Tequila. With my camera. And no dog. Might reach the 6,000 photos uploaded on Flickr benchmark today…

It went brilliantly. Obviously it took a while for everyone to turn up, gringos first (myself included) then Mexicans, which meant I’d had 3 beers before we headed off… But I was well impressed with the turn out- 12 Flickreros. El Charro Negro beat me to the T-shirt idea and was already wearing his self-designed Flickrwear. Once we got chatting, everyone seemed to have at least one friend in common (in the real world), and they were all a lovely bunch of people. And generally all sporting fearsome looking expensive cameras (I want one…). Don Charro also had a pinhole camera mind (today’s international pinhole photography day, folks). So the Panteón was looking its usual faded best, we just timed it right because on Tuesday it’s shutting down for repairs for as long as it takes. I hope it opens in time for the Day of the Dead (though this year, I fancy going to Michoacán for that)…

After a couple of hours in the Panteon, we ambled to a gothic church then back to the market, then the cantina La Cava again then back home to feed the dog and have him pull me round the block a few times. Sita and co of course weren’t around when I got home since they were off in Chapala at some high class country club, paddling, sunning themselves and barbecuing with Hugo y familia. I’m sure Monica’ll blog something about it in the near future.

So I started a thread in the VivirGuadalajara forum for everyone on the tour to put links to their photos from yesterday. Here’s the link to my FotoTour Set in the meantime, and here are some of my faves:

Today, another trip to Tequila… I’m considering forgoing the Jose Cuervo tour and just taking Atticus to see the Agave fields. He’s very big on UNESCO World Heritage Sites…

…for tomorrow, we photograph.

If this takes off, I’m going to get T-shirts printed…