Pierre & Vacances Omaha Beach Le Green Beach San Luis Potosí

... We seem to have the idea that if meat or poultry is not in a state of constant refrigeration the "salmonella monster" will surely strike us down. In the local markets meat and poultry are lying around for hours with no evidence of refrigeration. From my travels in Chile in 1999 I still remember the words of a traveler from Uruguay to this day when he said, "in our country no part of the cow goes to waste". Considering my own ...

Mexico: 23 Destinations to Spend the Winter Months --------------------------------------- ------------------------------- San Luis Potosi No. 4 of 23 Destinations (this is not a ranking) --------------------------------------- ------------------------------- San Luis Potosi - A Different Kind of Christmas Part 1 of 2 --------------------------------------- ------------ Location: 222 miles or 357 kilometers north-west of Mexico City (6 hour drive ...

... les quatre voyageurs, mais un peu moins bien pour les valises. Notre transfert à Toronto impliquait qu'on y passait les douanes après avoir récupérer nos bagages ; suite à un retard au départ de Montréal, nous avons rempli toutes les formalités de douane à Toronto, mais sommes arrivés à une minute près pour l'embarquement dans l'avion. Nous avons pris l'avion, mais pas les bagages ; on s'en est rendu compte à notre arrivée à San Antonio le jeudi soir. Débute alors les procédures de r ...

... where a side altar dedicated to Mary seems entirely made of gold. The altar at St. Francis was less flashy but very beautiful, with Mary at the center of the altar in a starburst of deep blue. There was also a crystal ship hanging in the front of the church. This church also displayed glass coffins of saints. We went in search of another museum (about the revolution) but it too was closed. That was an enjoyable walk, as it ...

... and the hotel has at least one restaurant and an unusually emerald green pool. Of course, there is A/C, cable and good drinking water. There is an interior parking garage. In the early evening, we took a walk and ate at a cafe a few blocks away. Some of this area is blocked off to traffic, which makes walking a pleasure. I enjoyed strolling the plazas around us- and we saw a beautiful rainbow from our room!

... they said YES! The conversation started off a bit stale but as the journey went on they opened up and told us all about the hippies living in a crazy sight a few hours from Mexico city and ancient creation myths and then we got to there town and they showed us around explaining all the religious myths and the conversion of the local natives to Christianity - the chiefs saw a vision of San Tiago in the sky and decided to convert (San Tiago is Saint James The Saint of compostella a ...

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 ...

... floor in a grocery store in Mexico, the nearest person (or maybe the nearest gringo) is charged for it! It doesn't matter if you touched the pasta, or shelf, or really came anywhere near it. It's a very amicable sort of extortion though, much better than that $200 Jack Daniels & coke I bought in Paris a few years ago (another story). They didn't say anything, they just charged me for it and put it in my bag at checkout. They were nice enough ...

Note: As most of you know, Paul has written most of the travel logs, with Laura acting only as the editor. This next entry is strictly a Laura entry. Monday morning, as we were eating our huevos revueltos (a rather violent name for scrambled eggs if you ask me...) I started getting homesick. It is hard to have to think every time you open your mouth. (Since I'm the one who "speaks" Spanish, and I use that term loosely, I've been doing most of the talking. Paul is actually doing ...

... to be a small mansion, with antiques, chandeliers, wide screen TV and lovely bedrooms - it was great being in a house! Zacatecas is famous for its street performers. On weekends musicians gather on street corners. Once there is a bit of a crowd they start to walk around the town, the crowd follows and is served drinks as they go...lots of fun!