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Now this is an Easter Celebration
How do Mexicans and Expat US citizens celebrate Easter Sunday? They burn a bunch of effigies of undesirables and Judas figures…. and for the finale they exploded this figure in a blue suit with bouffant hair. The sign says: DONALD, pero no el pato (but not the duck). There was no doubt and the many…
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Up close and Personal…
Up close and personal with some very weird sh*t! In the town of San Luis Potosi on Good Friday, the thing to do is to get yourself a ticket to the Procession in Silence. And so we did. We purchased two of ‘el mejor locacion que es posible… por favor” (the best location possible… please)…
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Architecture and Proposals
Whilst Ms Pacifica gets out her trusty camera (remember them) Lola meets a very drunk American Restauranteur, who proposes to her. Not marriage you understand… as he didn’t divorce the last wife… as an insurance policy so that he cannot marry again. Propped up at a bar table of a not-yet-opened restaurant we somehow manage…
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San Luis Potosí: reminiscent of Buenos Aires
We have arrived in the city of San Luis Potosí (SLP), Mexico after an uneventful trip on AirNZ to Houston, the usual horrific airport transit (avoiding the dunkin donuts shops) and a short two hour trip along the Mexican gulf on a tiny 60 seater plane. After some recent bad publicity our only United Airlines…
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Day of the Dead parade Morelia, Mexico
We even found the shop where you can buy the meringues!
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The Plan
Bon voyage! These are the locations for the 2017 Plan. We are flying directly into San Luis Potosi from Houston which is 2 hours north of our first apartment in San Miguel de Allende – and we spend 3 nights there enjoying the pre- Easter celebrations before catching the bus to San Miguel where we…
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Travel Preparation – the intrepid duo prepares for a mighty trip…
Lola and Ms Pacifica are about to embark on an epic trip back to Mexico two and a half years since their last tour together, although Lola has ‘snuck back’ on her own to the archeological museum in Mexico City to keep exploring. This time, LIFE is being put on hold, properties rented, work…
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Nothing better… than waking up in a new town
And what a town this is. The benefit of walking up all those stairs to the “Brownie” (Chocolate Hotel, Brownie Room… get it?) become obvious in the morning. We can look out over the most marvellous kaleidoscope of colour and hue with a bit of cool morning light enlivening the blues and greens. We have…
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Mexico City to Guanajuato – highs and lows
On Mondays most museums in Mexico City are closed and so Lola decided that this was a great shopping day. We headed to Palanco to a department store called Liverpool and spent a few hours. They even had a good upmarket foodcourt where we ate tapas and a glass of wine at the bar. It…
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