Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Black Friday Deals ✈️, Thanksgiving Recipe 🦃 and Holiday Escapes 🌴

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Hello friends,

We're just back from exploring the Mexican Caribbean 🌴 and can't wait to share our latest travel guides and recipes with you -- just in time for holidays and Black Friday deals!

Speaking of deals, we've curated our top Black Friday finds featuring everything from sunny Caribbean escapes to food-fuelled adventures in Europe.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we want to wish all our U.S. readers a joyful holiday filled with gratitude, delicious meals, and time with loved ones.

And when the turkey leftovers start piling up, we've got you covered with an easy, refreshing recipe for salpicón—it's the perfect way to lighten up after the holiday feast!

Plus, don't miss our roundup of the latest news, happenings and deals.

Let's dive in!

Michele of A Taste for Travel

Travel Tips and Planning

Discover Bacalar, Mexico

We loved Bacalar, Mexico for its unspoiled charm, still-wild lagoon and the sense of discovery it offers.

With change (namely high-speed Tren Maya) on the horizon, now's the moment to experience its serene beauty before the secret fully gets out.

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Float the day away in magical Bacalar, Mexico.

Timely Travel

Black Friday Deals!

Ready to score some Black Friday (Nov. 29) and Travel Tuesday (Dec. 3) savings?

Whether it's a dreamy beach stay or sleek luggage, we've curated the best for you!

These deals really are too good to miss!

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Save up to 55% off a stay at Barcelo Maya Caribe.

Tropical Table

Salpicón de Pavo (Shredded Turkey Tostadas)

Turn your Thanksgiving turkey leftovers into something light, fresh and delicious!

Salpicón, a refreshing shredded salad featuring turkey (or chicken), radish and mint, brings a taste of Latin America to your holiday leftovers.

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Beach & City Buzz

Notable news, updates, and happenings

Escondida Brunch and Seafood, one of our favourite restaurants in Puerto Escondido has just launched morning cooking classes! Hop over to their Facebook page to grab your spot.
Cochinita Pibil Tacos anyone? Join the Supper Club on Tuesday nights 6pm-9pm for fun dishes that aren't on the regular menu at Cafe Juanita, Huatulco.
Tickets are on sale now for the Oaxaca Food and Wine Festival! Taking place in Oaxaca City from Feb 20-23, 2025 it promises to be the foodie event of the year!

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Thursday, 21 November 2024

The Friends Who Rejected Us: Thank You

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The Friends Who Rejected Us: Thank You

And gratitude for the friends we left behind.

Nina Badzin

Nov 22

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This is one of the most heartfelt and earnest letters about a friendship breakup I have ever received. And that is saying a lot considering I’ve been reading anonymous friendship dilemmas since 2014. I hope this question helps many of you.

Dear Nina,

Within the last year, I had a friendship breakup with someone I considered one of my dearest friends for eight years. Our families regularly spent holidays together, and our husbands were also friends. It was an emotionally confusing breakdown, coming after years of feeling so much affection, connection and feeling compelled to be friends with this person, mixed in with lots of red flag moments of “is this friendship even a good idea?”

The friendship often felt one-sided to me, and after being on the receiving end of a lot of hurt and some wildly mixed messaging, I decided to let the intensity of the friendship lessen if it had to. Of course, as soon as I made some boundaries to protect myself, it fell apart. The two of us have different attachment styles, different friendship values and goals and both of us have some relationship damage in our pasts from families that were not accepting.

I can honestly say I wanted this friendship to work, was willing to do the work to bridge our differences, and was ready to talk things out until the end. My friend was not. The friendship was definitely over after she ghosted me when I tried to have a conversation about what was happening. After six months in limbo, I decided that I am not ok with ghosting, texted her to let her know I would always wish her well, and she responded briefly (and coldly) that she had made peace with the end of our friendship.

It’s been about a year since the incident, which was the final straw for me, but I’m still struggling with the pain I felt over this probably inevitable breakup and sometimes feel like I need a friendship-specific therapist. What can I do, for example, with the sad feeling that my husband and I will never have another couples friendship like this one? Although we have plenty of other friendships, none of them are at this level and perhaps they never will be.

I feel like I have learned so much about myself, what I value in friendships and even have dealt with some old personal damage in the course of trying to heal from this relationship. It’s good to be the kind of person who thinks deeply about my relationships, analyzes and hopefully learns from them.

The problem is, I can’t seem to STOP thinking about it and move on. It intrudes into my daily life regularly, and impacts my self esteem. It still hurts that I’m thinking about all of this, still missing what once was and I really think she probably isn’t doing that at all. When you end a close friendship in a messy, unclear way, is this normal? I’m just so TIRED of feeling bad about all of this.

I’m reaching out to renew/form new friendships and doing all the things I think I should be doing to recover, but how can I do better at just letting this go? Feels like I was born without the ability to write people off, even when it’s obviously time to do that. I even wrote a friendship pre-quiz to help new friends identify possible areas of trouble from my experience! Know of any friendship-specific therapy groups? Can we all please start one?

On A Friendship Journey