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For years my neighbors in the little community of Pinar de la Venta – located eight kilometers west of Guadalajara – have enjoyed a series of events called Jazz in the Woods: good music, good company, good food and drink, all organized by a friend named Michael Boudey, who was born in France.

El Nevado de Colima is the sixth highest mountain in Mexico. Its peak is 4,260 meters above sea level.

A few days ago, a quiet but feisty Australian named Caroline Durston passed away in Ajijic, and with her ended the story of Rancho Rio Caliente, for many years one of Mexico’s most famous spas, the favorite of cognoscenti from New York to Paris.

Skateboarding was invented in Santa Monica California in the 1950s, when surfers – frustrated on days without good waves – came up with the idea of putting wheels on a board so they could “surf the streets.”

Having explored wild caves in such far-flung places as Jamaica, France and Saudi Arabia I naturally wanted to keep up the tradition when I moved to Mexico in 1985.

This article was originally going to be a list of delightful hot springs and rivers where you might soak away your troubles and forget the pandemic for a while. However, most of those relaxing sites are temporarily closed to the public. So what to do and where to go in times of Covid-19?