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There is an area a bit north of the centro district in San Miguel de Allende known as Colonia Guadalupe. In Mexico neighborhoods are called colonias. This blog entry is a pictorial walk through Guadalupe. Not all the pictures were gifted with great light, but I hope you still can …
[Read more...] about All About the Art: Guadalupe and its Murals
We started today by staying in bed, in spite of a flurry of M-80 firecrackers, closer to us than ever before, (firecrackers are not an unusual event here) at 6:30am. They are loud and woke us out of sound sleep. Okay, we already had enough sleep but with no obligations on our calendar we chose to …
[Read more...] about Da Vinci, the Rosewood and Another Great Hot Chocolate: A day of exploration.
My life in San Miguel de Allende is undergoing change. A major objective for starting our adventures in Mexico was to enable me to became a much better Spanish speaker. I have been taking a class 5 days a week for the past two and a half weeks. Class lasted for 4 hours a day and I spent another hour …
[Read more...] about The End of Classes and Opening Our Eyes a Little More
San Miguel, and much of Mexico, takes Christmas very seriously. For the last couple weeks there have been crews working on the streets around the center of town stringing lights between the buildings on either side. There are lights running for up to eight blocks in either direction at times. The …
[Read more...] about A Christmas Season City at Night: And one more thing we left behind
A lot happened since I last wrote. A couple of things about the people in Mexico, they love parties/fiestas and they love firecrackers; sometimes thrown together. December 6th was Sheila's birthday. We celebrated by going to a movie at Cinebacco, a very small theater with comfortable seats. It is …
[Read more...] about A Thunderstorm, a Blackout and an All Night Fiesta: Now I know I am in Mexico
