Holiday Inn Express Torreon, Mexico

Accommodation <br><br>Hotel La Siesta, Acuna No. 9, Tel: (01 842) 422-0374. Their current rates were 300 + 400 peso for 1 or 2 persons. The small, en-suite rooms come with cable TV but are a little overpriced for what's on offer.

... in the states for many years then helped put her husband through school in Mexico City. He is an Architect. For supper (cena), Salvador, Reymond and myslef went to Señora Juanitas. Six of them live in a small house with three canarys and a turtle. Reymond told his testimony and his days in the navy. He has been in the work in Mexico for 51 years ...

Staying up chating with the twins till the wee hous of the morning, didnt bode too well with the 5:45am wake-up call. Back over to Jaimes for breaky and then into the van for the 5 hours drive to Torreon. There were 9 workers and myself. Good times. Torreon is only 100 years old. Known for its Silver mine (largest in latin america) and the Corona plant. it ...

WEATHER: clear, pleasant. TOTAL MILEAGE: 232.2 miles. All currency is in pesos. Best laid plans....I had hoped to do laundry at the hotel this morning (last night, the clerk told us that this was possible), but when I talked to the desk clerk this morning, she said that it would have to be given to a laundry service which we couldn't do because we had to check out shortly! Through some error, we had ...

I meet 2 English guys on the bus and we arrive in Zacatecas at 6am after a 13hr bus ride. We hop on the local bus to take us to the city centre. I have organised to met a girl named Ale through Couchsurfing.com here in Zacatecas. I meet her for coffee the following day and she shows me around her city. Zacatecas is an elegant colonial city in central Mexico. In addition to it's fine colonial buildings, constructed of pink sandstone, it maintains a great partying ...

... left, and then returned with royal like music playing. Everyone had changed into a costume representing one of the three kings. They danced to many more songs in these outfits. The night was ended with a gigantic pole set up in the middle of the square. It was loaded with spinning apparatus that shot off fireworks. Jack and I laughed that all of this excitement in one night in San Miguel equaled more than what happens back home in Nanaimo all year! The great thing about being in a ...

I guess I´m not much of a writer. We´ve been in Guanajuato a month now! This is my 5th week of classes in Spanish. I´m learning a lot but realize how much there is to know to speak another language. Comprehension comes long before the ability of the tongue. And being able to understand these rapid spaking people is another matter all together! One on one isn´t too bad. Guanajuato is a ...

... México now. we really like them both and are going to have a Xmas dinner with them on the 24th. They want to fix everything for us! The weather here is not what some of you think. It get´s pretty cold at night and none of the houses have heat.(We have thick blankets)During the days it sometimes warms up to t shirt weather if it´s sunny otherwise it can stay cool. But compared with winter in the nw who could complain?

... envious of the french girl who looked like she was taking lots of great photos without any problem feeling awkward - and she could speak spanish - pah!). The time for the superman bit. The train apparently regularly runs about 2-3 hours late (don´t ask me why they don´t change the timetable?!) and I don´t know the reason? Scenery on the line? Anyway, we pulled into Creel at 5, I literally crossed the tracks (and felt naughty after ...

... the entrance of the 'Mina El Eden' (the old mine for which Zacatecas is famed). I'm not sure if it was an effect of the high altitude (approx 2,500m) or simply the result of too much beer and junk food over the last few months, but both Dan and I struggled more than usual as we negotiated the steep inclines! Glad to have made it to the entrance, we took a guided tour of the mine, where up until the 1950s gold, silver, copper, zinc and iron were ...