“It’s the blue house across from Hotel Casa de las Flores, around six,” the text read. I was heading to the home of Jessica Chrastil, an American expat running a small but influential residency for ...

Oaxaca is Mexico's soul city: cobbled streets in painter's colours, the country's deepest food tradition, mezcal at the source, and a walkable centre that makes cars irrelevant. It is smaller and ...