Aranzazu Plaza Kristal Aguascalientes

Sun off to Aguascalientes, my 3rd feria or festival or in this case, much more of a fiesta, in a row. A big city but with a pleasant colonial centre (I'm on the route of the Camino Real so it's all like that round here!) but with a large area close to the centre permanaently set up for the Feria de San Marcos - huge pedestrianised plazas & streets lined with bars, clubs, restaurants & shops stretching for at least 2k - really packed Sunday night, 1st weekend of Feria, and yet half the ...

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Accommodation <br><br>Whilst here I stayed at Hotel San Antonia, Zaragoza No. 305, Tel: 01 (449) 9159341. This was the best of the budget options in town. The en-suite rooms with cable TV are standard but do vary, so look at a few until you find one you like. Avoid the rooms on the ground level around the parking area. Rooms 35 - 38 are your best bet as they are the nicer rooms and also set back ...

... and people are forced to drive due to lack of public transport, or the fact that most taxi drivers (in Mexico City anyway) have the deserved reputation for being knife wielding muggers? Mexicans justify their alcohol fuelled races by saying they still drive carefully, and it's true that amongst the ones I know tales of crashes after a night on the sauce are practically non-existent. Completely the opposite to home where even driving home from the pub after 2 pints is ...

Finished our work at the company. I rode with one of the employees in a little 1.6L car. I was shocked at his musical taste, 80's American rock. He had two CD's, Depeche Mode and U2. He said that he and his friends really enjoy this genre of music. The next time that I visit I am going to take a few CD's to give away, I know that at the very least I can get them cheaper. We were taken to dinner ...

Arrived at Aguascalientes. We were picked up by a van with a broken windshield and taken to the Fiesta Americana hotel. The hotel is nice, almost resort quality. A bellhop took my bags to the room for me and explained the layout of the hotel, most importantly he told me where to buy cerveza! Spent some time ...

I'm leaving Ajijic on Tuesday, April 18, for a trip to Morocco, followed by some time in Paris. If you'd rather not received my Reports From the Road for whatever reason: you're going to be traveling yourself, you hate listening to other people's travel stories almost as much as you hate looking at their snapshots, you're kinda busy, you just don't care ... all you have to do is let me know. I promise I won't be offended or take it personally. Honest. Here ...

Ah, little piece of heaven (henceforth known as LPH) number 2. Neat, attractive, small, fresh. At 2,500 metres it gets rather chilly at night. It is a UNESCO heritage town (the pink sandstone one) so building/renovating/advertising in the city centre is very limited. Hostel Villa Colonial has a really nice roof top area and generally very good facilities and extremely friendly staff. $190 (pesos) for a double in a good sized room ...

Since I have finally gotten internet access, I have been going back and adding entries and pictures, but will leave most of this initial posting intact. I had visions of constant updates but my battery on my computer is on the blink and it is hard to find a place to use it to upload text and pictures and typing on a plank board at the internet cafes is hard. Anyway, we arrived Jan. 1 and had three weeks of glorious weather until the rain hit ...

The Tuesday market, called La Placita, is now located next to the big grocery store, the Gigante, on the outskirts of town. We made two trips, one right after we arrived and another just to sight see with our friends, the F's. You can get there and back by one of the local buses or taxi. But the first time we went, we made the mistake of getting there mid afternoon and then ...