Monterrey
Travel Blogs from Monterrey, Mexico
Monterrey
... 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
... 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
... 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!
... 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
... , 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
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
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
... 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
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
... 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
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
... 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
... 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
... 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
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
... , 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
... 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
... 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
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 ...
Madness in Monterrey!
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 ...
Time to don our sombreros, amigos.
... 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 ...
McAllen, US and Reynosa and Monterrey Mexico ***
... , 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 ...
Monterrey at last
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 ...


