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Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Monterrey

A travel blog entry by tudorbenga

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... to Mazatlan. But then time and money and backtracking changed the plan. So I started out in Monterrey and plan a route closer to Mexico’s eastern shores instead. This is Mexico’s third largest city and apparently its economic champion. ...

Intro or so, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Intro or so

A travel blog entry by tudorbenga

... going to take me a few days to actually start feeling it J. Bizarrely enough as I’m writing this in the hostel in Monterrey, some Austrian guy plays loudly on his cell phone Bregovic’s Mesecina in the common area. Not the music I expected my ...

Monterrey - City of Mountains, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Monterrey - City of Mountains

A travel blog entry by tstewy

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... nbsp;Elias and Myrna Valdez also were here to meet us. Jon had just arrived from Houston. Monterrey is a sprawling city of 3.5 million. third largest in Mexico, but by far th most advanced. A 45 minute drive takes us to the home and convention ...

We love Monterrey!, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

We love Monterrey!

A travel blog entry by colleen.gibson

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... because our laptops do not work with their network. I hope that you are all enjoying a great break! We are loving Monterrey! It is soo americanized, that sometimes you forget that you are in Mexico! Everything is American! WalMart, Chileīs, Samīs Club, ...

Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Monterrey

A travel blog entry by kimandjohn

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... , after another nice long bus ride (made longer by the many-hour delay at the border, for no apparent reason), we arrived in Monterrey.  Our main goal here was simply to break the bus ride from Houston to Mexico City into two more managable parts, by ...

Aprendo espanol, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Aprendo espanol

A travel blog entry by sheppard

After my two weeks volunteering, I then spent a week doing spanish lessons in the morning and time with baudelio and eva in the afternoon. My lessons were 9am to 1pm at the offices used by Oswaldo. Getting there entailed a bus journey, a metro journey ...

Volunteer week two, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Volunteer week two

A travel blog entry by sheppard

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So - back from the country to week two. A similar week - fruit collection, distribution and helping to clean the store. The store had been deserted for a long time and then someone had donated to Baudelio for a couple of years. He needs somewhere to ...

Random volunteer bits, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Random volunteer bits

A travel blog entry by sheppard

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... So - no weight lost at all and stomach holding up fine. 2) I was on the radio the wednesday of the second week. It's a Monterrey only station, and AMMAC have a half hour slot every wednesday where they talk about social issues. It was in a radio studio ...

Letzter Stop vor USA, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Letzter Stop vor USA

A travel blog entry by toroamarillo

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3rd largest city in Mexico. Surrounded by a great scenery of mountains. The city itself is like any other big Mexican City. We did not get to do the canoeing with 27 drops with the larges exceeding 30 feet because we both did not feel well and wanted to ...

love affair with everywhere-monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

love affair with everywhere-monterrey

A travel blog entry by lifeasanomad

... about specific topics for future posts, let me know....if you just wanna write something, do that too....enjoy :) Post #2 Monterrey--Located in Northeast Mexico, the capital of Nueva Leon, is the 2nd largest city in the country. Was only here a day and ...

In Transit, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

In Transit

A travel blog entry by tstewy

Flying from Saskatoon - Calgary - Chicago - Monterrey. Not too direct but still getting into Monterrey early afternoon. Jon is arriving half hour ahead of me (from Houston), so timing is impeccable. All I know so far is that we are booked into two ...

First week of volunteer project, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

First week of volunteer project

A travel blog entry by sheppard

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... Other highlights of my first week included driving the little white van (B has a little white van and four bigger vans) through Monterrey, following B in one of the bigger trucks. I also later drove the people carrier and shot a red light - luckily no ...

Into Mexico, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Into Mexico

A travel blog entry by mikeandmary

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... shipped to a garage in Guadalajara and we will make our way there to get them fitted. We are eventually leaving the garage in Monterrey today, 27 September; the people could not have been more helpful and friendly. One of them lent his car so we could go ...

Week 2 of classes, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Week 2 of classes

A travel blog entry by btb387

... Spanish. It's really forcing me to think in Spanish almost all of the time.  I also am in a group with a guy from Mexico and a guy from France.  The Mexican speaks Spanish and a little bit of English.  The French guy speaks French and a ...

TEC Orientation, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

TEC Orientation

A travel blog entry by btb387

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This week has been an orientation for all of the international students.  I signed up for classes, a process that was very confusing and unorganized.  It took me two days, but I eventually got the classes I wanted.  We have also had many ...

An Eventful Weekend, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

An Eventful Weekend

A travel blog entry by btb387

... , as is most of the food here. The drink situation was confusing though.  I asked for water, which is fine for drinking in Monterrey.  They charged me the same price as the soft drinks.  It turns out that they don't have water there, so I ...

Starting Classes, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Starting Classes

A travel blog entry by btb387

... looks today than I have in my entire life.  I'm relatively tall (6'4") and stick out like a sore thumb here in Mexico.  Before the Mexicans arrived, a lot of the international students spoke English to one another.  That's not really an ...

1st Exams, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

1st Exams

A travel blog entry by btb387

... weekend.  Saturday I am going to Cola de Caballo (a waterfall) where you can also bungee.  Its the highest bungee platform in Mexico, so it should be pretty cool.  I've never done it before, so I hoping I have the nerve to try ...

Getting Situated, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Getting Situated

A travel blog entry by btb387

I arrived in Monterrey yesterday at about 11 in the morning. I didn't have any problems getting there, and there were people at the airport waiting for me. We took a bus from the airport to the campus, which was about 20 minutes away.  Once on ...

Mexican Christmas, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Mexican Christmas

A travel blog entry by gary_eva

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Final days in Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Final days in Monterrey

A travel blog entry by gary_eva

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Madness in Monterrey!, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Madness in Monterrey!

A travel blog entry by dixieannie

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We spent a great 5 days in Monterrey.  A really lovely city, different to what we expected.  Its an industrial town so we expected factories etc but they are all in the suburbs.  The city is suurounded by a beautiful backdrop of ...

First day out in Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

First day out in Monterrey

A travel blog entry by gary_eva

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Time to don our sombreros, amigos., Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Time to don our sombreros, amigos.

A travel blog entry by chris.curtis

... walking across the bridge and into a country where english is not an option. After minor border confusions we eventually boarded a bus to Monterrey where we met our young Mexican host who turned out to be quite a good guitar hero and FIFA '08 player on ...

Waterfall and Lake tour, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Waterfall and Lake tour

A travel blog entry by gary_eva

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McAllen, US and Reynosa and Monterrey Mexico ***, McAllen, Reynosa and Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

McAllen, US and Reynosa and Monterrey Mexico ***

A travel blog entry by roro

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... , we declined such a practice, being Irish and all! Saturday night, we went out in the cosmopolitan social nucleus of Monterrey and it was unbelievable the amount of well-dressed people there...most of the peeps were way better-dressed than most ...

How to make a tamale, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

How to make a tamale

A travel blog entry by gary_eva

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La Huasteca, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

La Huasteca

A travel blog entry by gary_eva

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Monterrey at last, Monterrey, Mexico travel blog

Monterrey at last

A travel blog entry by gary_eva

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A 12 hour journey later and we arrived at a little bus station somewhere in Monterrey. We were thankful of the Executive-styled bus (well worth the extra) but unfortunately there was a mix-up with the rellies and no-one knew where were were.... apparently ...

Look see of Saltillo and Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico travel blog

Look see of Saltillo and Monterrey

A travel blog entry by radsolv

Impressed with Saltillo and ...

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