Calinda Racquet Club Cuernavaca

... They live on the tops of the mountains, there were signs about how the people are trying to protect them. The view from the top of this mountain was one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen. We were so high up, and all around us were cliffs and other mountains. Then in front of and below us you could see the entire city. Rob and Buzz planned routes for flying their parachutes down the mountain. We sat up there for probably 30 minutes just taking in the view.

FLUO EST AU MEXIQUE !!

En ce joli Samedi d'Octobre direction la ville voisine de Cuernavaca (1h de Mexico en autobus), dans l'Etat de Morelos. Beaucoup d'habitants du DF (District Federal = ville de Mexico) possèdent une maison secondaire ici où ils viennent passer les week end et les vacances loin du chaos.

La ville est très colorée, il n'y a pas 2 facades de maison de la même couleur ...

... shocked to see her standing up while having the scooter!!!!
So I complained to one of the clerks who basically told me that it wasn't her problem that my mother was on crutches!!!!!
Men, in my country, that is considered pure discrimination!!!!!
Plus I tried to get the store manager's name and it was denied to me!!!! Like if it was confidential!
So be aware of how are you treated while in Cuernavaca, and whatever happens complain, complain and complain again...

Accommodation

Whilst here I stayed at Hotel America, Aragon y Leon No. 14, Tel: 01 52 (777) 318-6127, Web: www.tourbymexico/hotelamerica. Their current rates were 230 + 280 peso for 2 persons, the latter price rooms come with cable TV; if travelling solo then ask for a bit of discount, as you should get 40 peso ...

... tourists, and went to the Robert Brady Museum, a house which had been occupied by an eccentric US art-collector and which was virtually unchanged since he lived there in the middle of the last century. The place was cluttered with an eclectic range of items, and I snapped a photo of Theodora looking a bit like the Freda Kahlo self-portrait in the background. Afterwards, we went and had lunch in "Los Mananitas ...

... of an outdoor eating crowd a song starts and people just get up in mid wine sip or bit of morsel and start an elegantly simple dance. Seated right back down until the next song and all over again. Of course the music is mostly live.

Cuernavaca was bigger than I expected and the famed spanish student town was short on any gringos at all. Of course there was the man from Boston who asked me "are the bars the same in Mexico as anywhere else ...

... real thing originally started back in the Aztec times hundreds of years ago. This type of ice cream was considered "Food of the Gods", and it really tastes like it! Well, the place looks really nice, it has these decorations that look EXACTLY like real fruits all over the walls and the ceiling! The tables are made of ...

... we placed one at each end of the cafeteria, gave each one a different cut out picture of fruit or vegetable that we colored last night and we had them line up in the middle of the room and run to put their fut or vegetable in the correct blow and run back. They loved it! After doing that for a while, we played Red Light, Green Light and finally Heads-Up, 7-Up on the floor. We played all this from ...

... in the middle of the day for 2 hours). However, the Sunday afternoon Comida is alive and well. Every Sunday, families get together, in numbers of 30 or more to eat and enjoy each other´s company. These Sunday afternoon feasts at Carmen´s are an amazing treat for me, as I try to decipher what is going on, relish the cultural differences, and admire the strength of traditions. Carmen is lovely and her house is lovely. I am learning an enormous amount from her. But, the Priest ...

... Sure the bulls still died, but you have to remember the steaks. Anyway, as we gathered our belongings to leave the next bull entered the arena ran around a bit and JUMPED right over the wall again! Craig and I freaked out! This bull, thankfully, didn't have the same hops as Little Bird and was only able to make it over the first wall into the pit, not the stands. Anyway, he ran around in there and they opened a door to lead him back into the arena, and he JUMPED that ...