Not long after I started my blog in 2013, I started reading a blog called "The Mexile". It is written by an Englishman by the name of Gary Denness. Gary began his blog in 2003 when he took his first trip to Mexico. Subsequently he lived in Mexico City for several years where he taught English. During that time he fell in love a Mexican lady, and they married. Before I had started reading his blog, he returned to England. He and his wife now live in Bournemouth.
Although we had never met face to face, over the years we got to know each other in a way through reading and commenting on each others blogs. He and his wife have traveled extensively. Although there are a few countries that I have visited, such as Switzerland and Norway, that they have not seen, the list of nations that he has visited far surpasses mine. When they traveled back to Mexico a while ago, we hoped that we would be able to get together and finally meet. However, it didn't happen. When he learned that I was traveling to England, and that my cousin lives just down the road from Bournemouth, we decided that this time we had to meet!
That meeting occurred last Wednesday, and ironically, he suggested that we meet at The Cat and the Fiddle, the historic pub where we had dined the night before. We had really liked the place so we had no objections at all. He and his wife drove to my cousin's house and picked us up. We had drinks and snacks at the pub, and what was supposed to be a short get together stretched into several hours. We literally closed the pub. Gary is just as interesting a chap as I had imagined from his blog, and his wife is equally charming. We talked and talked, and they were sorry that we were not staying longer in England so that we could get together again. It was truly a pleasure to meet them.
I guess that we now have two reasons to return to that corner of England... to visit my cousin and his family, and to see Gary and his wife again.
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