Antiguo Meson de Aspeytia Queretaro

... sentence or two together when I need to. I'll no doubt have more to report at the end of the week.

Oh - I'm not sure how the photos work - some of them have captions but I don't know if the captions come up when you view the photos as a slide show. It might be necessary to just look at them without the slide show if you're interested in the captions. If anyone can figure it out - ie how to watch the slide show with captions, please let me know.

Salud!

I woke up early this morning and made myself a cup of coffee before heading to the Queretaro Language School which was a couple of blocks away. I had noticed the night before that there was a market two blocks north of the guest house, so I decided to swing by there on my way to the school. I'm glad I did because out front I saw a handful of vendors selling tamales and warm atole. I listened in as people ordered and then I myself ordered a ...

... tickets to the luggage man. When I pointed to my bag, the luggage man asked for my ticket and when I couldn't produce it he shook his head. After all the bags were taken, he wheeled my suitcase past me and into the terminal! A kind traveler who spoke English offered to take me to the bus counter and was able to convince the Primera Plus attendant that the lonely suitcase was mine.

I bought a ticket to ...

... coté du resto "Los compadres"), les concerts en plein air du dimanche sur les nombreuses places de la ville...

Très peu de touristes étrangers car elle n'apparait pas tellement dans les guides touristiques (très injustement mais tant mieux pour nous finalement)

Une excelente journée sous un ciel on ne peut plus bleu et une chaleur accablante...

... br>Nous passons donc toute la journée à nous ballader dans les ruelles et les nombreuses places, tout en dégustant les spécialités locales. Le soir nous avons la chance d'assister à une "estudiantina", des groupes folkloriques qui se promènent dans la rue en chantant des airs typiques et en dansant. (regardez les vidéos).

Nous terminons par une soirée arrosée à la tequila...

... rates were 220, 315, 365, + 490 Peso for one, two, three or four persons.

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This morning it is just a short hop to just outside the town of Queretaro. There is a campsite here we will use for the next couple of days. On arrival it is just a lazy day. This morning onto the moped for the 15 km's into town which is a Unesco World Heritage Site mainly because of the buildings from the 17th and 18 th centuries. Our first stop was at the City Museum and the Museum of the restoration of the Republic; both of these are housed in a former ...

... some beautiful silver, which I also saw all over in Oaxaca. I did not buy anything...yet!! I do have my eye on a beautiful necklace though. :) Well, this is all for now. I will post some pics when I get a chance. On Sunday, we will be heading to Quanajuato. We had to bypass it a couple days ago, as we were unable to find anywhere to stay due to a huge festival they have for three weeks every year. It ends this Sunday.

... but we haven't formed a group. I like to mix into all the groups if I can. I actually changed houses last weekend because my house was so quiet and I wanted a roommate and a bigger family. It was sad for me to leave my host mom because she was so nice and I did not want her to take it personally. She was sad at first, but I think she understood. There is a girl here (Michelle) from Nebraska that I met and there was an extra room at her host family's house. I ...

... following no particular route, we came across tiny little streets and alleyways, some looking as if their vistas belonged on postcards, others a little grotty and infinitely less desirable. On our travels, we even managed to find a bookshop selling English language novels - an absolute godsend for the long journeys, since we had exhausted all other literary material. Finding ourselves near to the funicular, we took the short trip uphill to the 'El Pipila' monument, where we climbed ...