{"id":39,"date":"2017-10-16T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/?p=39"},"modified":"2017-10-16T20:40:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:40:43","slug":"to-the-sierra-madre-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/2017\/10\/16\/to-the-sierra-madre-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Sierra Madre Mountains !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/files\/2017\/10\/SZDIMG_2390-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/files\/2017\/10\/SZDIMG_2390-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/files\/2017\/10\/SZDIMG_2390-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/files\/2017\/10\/SZDIMG_2390-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Travelling to Pachuca then on to Real Del Monte very high up &#8211; at 10,000 feet reputed to be the highest town in Mexico. Its less than 2 hours by bus from Mexico City, but a different world. Real Del Monte has an alpine feel &#8211; surrounded by forest and high peaks and houses with sloping roofs (unusual for Mexico and a legacy of the Cornish.) I\u2019m delighted to see lots of corrugated iron-one of my favourite materials-everywhere, and used in sections, almost like tiling.The topography is really interesting &#8211; buildings perched on the edge of precipitous drops, a very raw, very rich and visual place with brightly coloured houses everywhere. I\u2019ve spotted several mines sticking out of the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Today I have been all day with the Redruth Delegation at the opening ceremonies of the Paste (Pasty) Festival, a huge cultural and culinary event with lots of speeches -a very solemn and dignified event. I presented prints I have made as gifts to the Mexican partners, based on the work I\u2019ve created working with Cornish mining sites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Travelling to Pachuca then on to Real Del Monte very high up &#8211; at 10,000 feet reputed to be the highest town in Mexico. Its less than 2 hours by bus from Mexico City, but a different world. Real Del Monte has an alpine feel &#8211; surrounded by forest and high peaks and houses <a href=\"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/2017\/10\/16\/to-the-sierra-madre-mountains\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/mexico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}