slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Mexico
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Our real wedding anniversary – we were married 36 years ago on this day. This was our last day in Mexico, so we made the most of it by walking around the Centro Historico and shopping. First we had lunch at Cafe de la Parroquia. Then, as we sat people watching in the Jardin Allende,…
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On Monday, many places were closed, and we spent a lot of time just hanging out and reading and watching a long Mexican farce on Netflix. Sandy decided to get on a city bus and just ride around to see wherever it took him. I found a little art supply store just around the corner…
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When I checked to see what our possibilities were for Sunday, I saw that a large art complex, Fabrica La Aurora, that had been converted from an old mill was open that afternoon. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g151932-d1439804-Reviews-Fabrica_La_Aurora-San_Miguel_de_Allende_Central_Mexico_and_Gulf_Coast.html We slept very late and lolled about, then called an Uber to take us there, where we ate a pasta lunch…
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We began Saturday with a slow walk uphill on this street. So many shops and galleries were open now. One of the shops we visited was a print shop with many fine relief prints and artist books for sale. We talked to the employee there and her brother for a long time, and I laid…
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Finally, the streets came alive for the weekend. Suddenly there were lots of doors opened into sweet little shops and cafes. We began to get more familiar with our surroundings. I loved taking photos of doors. I may have to weave some doors soon, and I’ll do a post with only door photos. We walked…
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We decided to begin using Uber rides to get uphill to the center of town and walking back down to the hotel. This worked really well in Mexico, as compared to our Uber tribulations in Portugal last year. We never had a problem. First we found lunch at a pretty little courtyard cafe named Marluz.…
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On Wednesday, we began by exploring the nearest streets. This ended up being a real foodie vacation. Our first stop was at the little coffee shop on the corner, and then we found lunch at Cafe Jess. After talking to the young woman we thought was a waitress for a while, we discovered that she…
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^This is the beautiful Templo de la Merced that we could see from the roof of our hotel. I wish that we had gone in when we heard the mass on Sunday as we walked by, because from the photos I’ve seen, the interior is gorgeous. I started to crop the electric lines from the…
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^I think there is a garden behind these doors. We would find that there were often beautiful surprises within plain outside facades. The sign translates to “The Snails” but I don’t know what C.S.O.A means. I knew that there would not be much open on Monday, so I ordered breakfast at our hotel, which our…
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First off, it’s pronounced kay-REE-tah-roh. I had to practice this a lot after weeks of saying qwair-ee-TAH-roh. It’s a big modern city with a Spanish colonial heart that is a UNESCO World Heritage site. We flew there on Saturday, May 6. I found a flight that our miles mostly covered that got us there in…
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