We have moved into a fairly spacious apartment. The kitchen, living room and bedroom are pictured above. There is a dining room also, not pictured. Great to have it done and know we have some stability for the duration of our Oaxaca stay. The apartment is quiet and cool. Best of all is it is across the street from the best, and maybe only, fish market in Oaxaca from what I have been told. We finished a dinner of salmon and vegetables a bit ago. The salmon was great even by Pacific Northwest standards. Smothered everything in a mole sauce we expanded from a mole negro paste. We would have been elated to get a meal this good in a restaurant and we spent a total of under $15 for 2 pounds of salmon and a bunch of fruits and vegetables. That is one of the major advantages of Mexico, if you prefer to cook, which we do.
A unique feature of the apartment is security. There is an outer door that turns right to a staircase to some attorney offices, or continues straight ahead to a second door, both strong metal. The second door has a locking system I had never before seen. Turn the key to the left and a deadbolt slides into a cavity, and then turn left again and a second deadbolt enters a second cavity. That door leads into a small ground floor courtyard with steep metal stairs going up to the landlord’s part time apartment which has stucco walls continuing up about ten feet on each side through the middle of the building. Back in our courtyard the metal front door opens by key once it receives a firm tug, a key turn to the left, then a firm knee to the door.
Tomorrow I have to deal with what I think is a uniquely foreign predicament. Eight days ago someone used a credit card of mine illicitly. I informed Chase Bank the next day and they canceled the card and rushed a new one to Mexico. It was received at UPS in Oaxaca on Tuesday. Great so far, but UPS has failed to deliver the card. Tomorrow I hope to be able to go to the UPS station where the card is being held and retrieve it. This might take a bit of good fortune as a man in my Spanish class in San Miguel de Allende had the same thing happen and they never did allow him to have the card. Poor Dan also never got a suitable explanation.
Anecdotes like those above I share because travel abroad can be very different than travel in the U.S. Maybe these stories will help someone. The ability to drop preconceptions and expectations can be very helpful. Often travel ends up being an exercise in adaptability. And, though I sometimes have a difficult time staying calm and cool, doing so is definitely helpful. UPS tomorrow will likely be an interesting experience.
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What does ‘murguia’ mean?
Glad you found such a lovely place!
I think I did not send the reply I wrote. Murguia is simply the name of our street, which is from a mexican surname.
A home, settle in and enjoy, good you are close to a fish shop, we have fish guy that comes around once a week in a van, and sells fish. We get some delicious salmon but it’s costly. Now that you are in a place you can explore the area, have fun