San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Travel Blogs

Cacti Galore

A travel blog entry by thymeoff

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... for 'fresa y crema' (strawberries and cream)! Our attention was attracted by the description of the small colonial town of San Miguel de Allende in our trusty and well-thumbed copy of the Lonely Planet Guide to Mexico. The town is named after Ignacio ...

Gringo Heaven

A travel blog entry by losbrowns

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A beautiful hillside town that has been overrun by American expatriates making it one of the priciest places we've visited in Central America. The town is pristine and has been refurbished from sidewalk to steeple. A great assortment of restaurants, ...

San Miguel de Allende

A travel blog entry by kjmyers

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San Miguel is a great town! It has lots of Americans living here. There are lots of art and Spanish schools. Very quaint and interesting ...

The trouble with traveling Americans is...

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

... and volunteer or help those people out in anyway? Them: No I thought I'd just throw that into a random discussion on the climate in Mexico to make myself feel superior. Me : Aye, No me digas mamadas! Them: huh???? " I get that in a country where a ...

Guanajuato

A travel blog entry by kjmyers

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Today was a great day in Guanajuato. It was a fascinating, picturesque, crooked, cobblestoned city. The streets are irregular in shape, creating a jumble of walls, balconies and rooftops meeting at anything but right angles- the churches are the ...

Happy Campers-us and our guests and new friends

A travel blog entry by ladydi

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One of the big pleasures of our stay this year was having various friends from el Norte come visit us during our stay. Here are some photos of us and them enjoying San Miguel and our day and over night ...

Dancing Queen

A travel blog entry by a_broad_abroad

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... , is one of the best salseros in town. He pretends to be modest, but he knows he is good. Maybe not ESPN good, but San Miguel good. He has been spending time showing me steps and combinations and am I grateful. I haven�t had the time to dance ...

Independence Day

A travel blog entry by a_broad_abroad

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... leave the Tuesday flea market outside of town. El Tianges. I went there to check it out, see some more of Mexico... I wandered around, almost bought a few things and took a couple of photographs. What a strange assortment of offerings: puppies, ...

Renting a house in Colonia San Antonio, San Miguel

A travel blog entry by ladydi

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... through sixth grade. With a growing second home population, both N. Americans & Canadians, as well as rich Mexicans from Mexico City, San Miguel is one of the richest communities in Mexico and affords visitors a wide array of luxury goods and ...

And then there was one

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

... a gigantic house with fireworks going off above me and I gotta say that it certainly doesn't feel very spectacular to me. I love San Miguel and I love my job and I try to do it well but it still feels as if a part of me is missing. ...

El Bajio

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

... small part to my "stick a finger in a light socket" style of relating to the world. A prime example of this is when I was in Mexico City and I got in a taxi with a dude who had most likely been huffing paint. Or it could have been that he had spent ...

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

A travel blog entry by jesse-ambika

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San Miguel de Allende is our first stop in Mexico, where we have spent the last 2 months visiting Ambika's father and girlfriend. They are both artist's and live on the outskirts of the city. This also gave us the time to settle down and get our trip ...

San Miguel de Allende

A travel blog entry by travellerbruce

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Pre-Lent in San Miguel

A travel blog entry by judyk68

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This is not Mardi Gras, this is not Carnival......this is the celebration for the children of the city. You have to think that the local village people have been saving their egg shells for months in anticipation of selling them at this time. ...

La Corrida

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

... is felt upon entering the ring. Moreover, to me, the fight represents the passion, tension, and violence that is Mexico. For a start everyone has a seat however unequal at the ring. The rich sit in the comfort of the shade while the ...

At home in San Miguel January 2006

A travel blog entry by ladydi

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Now that I'm wired in our little house I can add more pictures so I am infilling entries. These are some shots of the house we are renting this year and have already booked again for next year for January and February. And now that is high speed ...

Mexico is...

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

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... soul to find out what and who I am. A realization that hit me like a homemade firework to the face... Mexico is that mangy, rabid, glassy-eyed, maniacal antidote to the consumeristic, cult of celebrity that got pounded into me daily when I ...

America: The offensive and the offended

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

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... he was too poor for a wheelchair. It was poignant for her because in Denmark that doesn't happen. I've been in Mexico for so long that I guess I've become rather desensitized to the massive crushing poverty that is this country and the huge ...

La taxista casi me mata

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

So that part in my first entry about it being bastante peligro around here I went to dinner with laurie a couple nights back and I started to cross the street when a taxi came out of nowhere and nearly made me gringo roadkill. Seriously his ...

Parade in San Miguel de Allende

A travel blog entry by ladydi

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Celebrations, both civic and religious, are important in the life of San Miguel de Allende as in the rest of Mexico. As one of the key sites in the Mexican Independence movement that began in 1810, San Miguel de Allende takes the birthday of Ignacio de ...

Trucha au Mexique - San Miguel de Allende

A travel blog entry by rayou

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Trucha et Emilie sont au Mexique !!! Pas tr�s loin de Quer�taro se trouve la ville de San Miguel de Allende, autre splendeur coloniale, avec notamment une cath�drale magnifique. Tout comme Quer�taro la ville est pleine de petites ruelles de ...

Destination - The Mexican Santa Barbara

A travel blog entry by susieandisidro

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... of the cities many underground streets. We finally got a cab and made it to the bus station on time and we were in San Miguel de Allende by 8 PM. The best way I can describe this town is to say it was the original Santa Barbara. It's colonial ...

I need a siesta

A travel blog entry by a_broad_abroad

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Last night I went out salsa dancing. After the salsa band stopped playing mi amigo enrique took britney and I to a discotec that is popular amoung locals. The place was packed and britney and I were some of the only gringos around. I ended up on a ...

Concert at Atotonilco

A travel blog entry by riversbeyond

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... " http://www.wmf.org/project/jes%C3%BAs-nazareno-church-atotonilco and HYPERLINK "http://www.experience-san-miguel-de-allende.com/atotonilco.html" http://www.experience-san-miguel-de-allende.com/atotonilco.html. Seated in the magnificent ...

Eating Well in San Miguel

A travel blog entry by judyk68

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... back of a truck, and the horrid but addictive puffed corn things flavored with lime and chili. Paella is rather popular in San Miguel, showing the Spanish, and the seafood influence. A new place had opened in Colonia San Antonio (another sign of ...

The MOST messed up festival EVER

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

So let me set the scene for y'all... Tonight is the culmination of the celebrations dealing with the founding of San Miguel. Evidently, there was four small villages back in the day that grew together to form the town. Therefore, there ...

House + House = Home

A travel blog entry by riversbeyond

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... to the quality of life here. La Biblioteca sponsors at least two lectures and/or concerts each day, weekly films, and other events. Funds raised from this tour and benefit the less fortunate residents of San Miguel de Allende. ...

Flashbacks

A travel blog entry by j0rgeherter

... why but this has brought back a vivid and completely unrelated memory I have about one of the first experiences I ever had in mexico. This has been embossed on the back of my brain in permanent marker and I remember everything about this ...

Third time's a charm

A travel blog entry by roadtrip2010

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... is a town, that despite its popularity with Americans (artists mostly) is sometimes hard to find on a map. It's called San Miguel de Allende (pronounced: Ayenday). This is where we finally got lucky with hot springs! Third time’s a ...

San Miguel de Allende - Finally!

A travel blog entry by a_broad_abroad

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... followed as I handed over my belongings. After crying at PDX and sleeping through two flights, I lamented my lost luggage in Mexico City. While it was quite some time between my arrival and its, I was eventually reuinted with my stuff, thankfully. ...

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La taxista casi me mata

Parade in San Miguel de Allende

Trucha au Mexique - San Miguel de Allende

Destination - The Mexican Santa Barbara

I need a siesta

Concert at Atotonilco

Eating Well in San Miguel

The MOST messed up festival EVER

House + House = Home

Flashbacks

Third time's a charm

San Miguel de Allende - Finally!