Lo De Marcos, Mexico West Coast

Dear all, been some time since I last blogged due to poor connections. We are now on our last leg of Mexico trip and in a small resort on the West Coast, 50 miles from Puerto Vallarta. From Pie De La Cuesta we stayed a couple of nights at Ixtapa and then went inland to Lake Chapala, biggest lake in Mexico. On the way, hit a roadblock, burnt out cars and armed men which was our scariest moment so far driving. We turned around sharpish and found another route. Before leaving Pie De La Cuesta we went to the Paella Festival in Acapulco, we were on the British Consulate table, most couples were Brits with Mexican wifes who now have South Welsh accents and the like. It was great fun and toasted the Queen and the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, no singing of the National anthem though..... After we went to Kathy's place, what a magnificent home, overlooking the Acapulco bay, we rounded off a great day with champers in the pool with the best veiw.
We have just spent 3 nights in Guadalajara, old colonial city, very impressive and clean. The big city's here have been a very pleasant surprise. Then on the way to the coast we visited Tequila, well you have to..."when in Rome"!! There are agave plants everywhere and had a try at getting to the pineapple like "fruit" which they steam for the juices to create tequila. Everywhere you can taste different tequilas and we did a few, learnt the process and have started to gain some appreciation of the different tequilas. For the drink to be called tequila the agave plant has to be grown in the state of Jalisco. You never know pub quizers, that could be some useless information for you.