Hotel Progreso San Luis Potosí

And what a lovely room it is - extra comfortable double bed, side tables, reading lamp, dressing table with mirror, wardrobe, full length mirror on the door, desk and bookshelf, a big bright window and a little space heater. The walls are generously decorated with pictures of angels, Mary, a big flower painting, and a street scene of a town in Europe (I think). It really is a great room. The only slight annoyances - and I do mean slight in view of all the good ...

... interest all the commercial establishments along the way. We also stopped at a sales office for new houses being constructed not here but beside an industrial park on the edge of the city. The price is right - about $35,000 U.S. They have about 800 square feet of living space that includes two small bedrooms. The units are attached on all sides except the front with an outdoor place to park a car. It is high-density living but it ...

... pieces produced a decidedly unsatisfying crunching sound that tended to induce a reflux reaction, which is not conducive to Christmas Dinner or any other dinner for that matter. Barbara soldiered on to the bitter end but I could not finish my bowl. This left me munching on the ubiquitous tortillas. Like I said it was a totally unsatisfying Christmas Dinner that I will never forget. Just another word on Mexico being "one of the world's great ...

... et d'activités de groupe qui laissent peu de temps pour rechercher des sites Internet convenables pour le transfert de fichiers. Le chef de la caravane nous donne accès à son système d'Internet par satellite, mais on est limité à de simples courriels quand son système fonctionne. Voici donc le début de cette deuxième partie de notre périple de 8 mois ; nous serons au Mexique du 6 janvier au 25 mars environ. Parlons un peu de notre retour du Québec qui s'est passé tel que prévu ...

... part of the history. I had hoped to visit a museum of Mexican masks but found that it was closed for renovations. We stopped for coffee in a cafe with big, over-stuffed chairs where it was nice to linger and people-watch for awhile. We went back to the hotel briefly before setting out for the Church of St. Francis. I had earlier peeked into the Church of St. Carmen, where there is a tremendous amount of gilding on the main altar ...

... that was playing and jumping over each other. We picked out the Hotel Panorama based on Lonely Planet, a splurge at $860 per night. It definitely has the feel of a chain hotel, but it also has all the amenities (after all these weeks of carrying our luggage up and down stairs, an elevator is a luxury!). Our room is very large, on the seventh floor, with huge windows and an excellent view of the city. It is fully ...

... people and it looked really really homely. He then drove us all around the major sights of his town like the Wal Mart etc and then asked us if we were gonna hitch at night? He then offered us a flat that he wasn't using in the next town My god we couldn't believe our luck! We got there -his mums house and he opened this little door to the side and gave us his old bed and TV and offered us anything we wanted in his fridge and turned on his fans and air-conditioning just incase we were ...

A short day trip. Delores Hidalgo is the home of the church from which on September 16, 1810 padre Miguel Hedalgo y Costilla issued the Grito de la Independencia spawning the Mexican Independence movement. Subsequently excommunicated and eventually beheaded, Hidalgo is a national hero for whom countless streets & plazas are named throughout the country. Despite its' historical significance, the town ...

Q`vo gente, I write to you from my birthplace: Zacatecas, Mexico. This is something that my family and I do every year, if we can. This is already the sixth time I have been fortunate enough to do so. There is a cyber cafe next to my grandmother`s house and so every day that passes by I am tempted to come and send out my next travel log about my three week backpacking trip to the northern ...

... is the cheapest. Queretaro also boasts a Costco, Sams Club and major shopping centers, etc. so it is a favorite destination for middle class SMA residents and ex pats for major shopping but that requires a car. If your Spanish is not that strong, you will probably get more out of an organized tour that often includes stops at Bernal or Atotonilco as well. The local tours once you are there are all in Spanish but there are a couple of nice small museums as well.