For a Mexico beach vacation, try Manzanillo
My friend and I just returned from a special four-day getaway. At the recommendation of friends, we stayed in the Dolphin Cove Inn, known to locals and people giving directions as Playasol Las Hadas. T...
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Pistacho-ing Around
There’s a guy on the road to Tequila that sells the best pistachios I have ever tasted. He sells them from a cart alongside the road near a train crossing. His pistachios are low in moisture and well...
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Take me out to the tianguis
We rented our first house in San Miguel on a Wednesday. The street, Indio Triste, was like many in San Miguel--cobbled, narrow, and the walls that surround the houses and gardens are built right up to ...
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La Revolución
Last month Mary and I joined the American Society, a group of English speaking expatriates. We joined in order to meet other expats and so that I could attend Spanish classes there. At only $4 per meet...
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Oceano Pacifico
Last Monday Mary and I decided to take a vacation in the Mexican coastal town of Puerto Vallarta. Two years ago, shortly after Mary and I first met, Mary had flown to Vallarta to vacation with her long...
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Mexican pigeons do not fly in a straight line!
It all started when I took Molly to one of the downtown parks here in Morelia, a park crammed with pretty flowers, spraying fountains and Jacarandas in full bloom. We soon found ourselves enjoying a qu...
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Merida: the white city of the Yucatan
MERIDA'S HISTORY
SIGHTS TO SEE
SHOPPING
DINING
The early inhabitants of Merida "discovered" a plant that had ...
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The Wonder Of Living In Mexico
By Janet Stanley © 2001
"At the moment you are most in awe of all there is
about life that you don't understand, you are closer
to understanding it all than at any o...
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Trotsky's Ghost
I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party (although I did subscribe to the Daily World during the wild and woolly Sixties), but a visit to Leon Trotsky´s house in Coyoacán ha...
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Investigating Aguascalientes
Harry and company are moving to Aguascalientes. They are fed up with Guadalajara, with the high rents, the traffic congestion, and the noise (car horns, stereos, drunks, parties, dogs, and church bells...
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Circling Lake Chapala
Today Mary and I set out to drive completely around Lake Chapala, Mexico’s biggest lake. It’s quite an undertaking, about a 180-mile drive.
Before hitting the road, we went to “Sanborns” fo...
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The Glorieta From Hell
This morning Mary and I were driving around doing errands. As we negotiated our way through the "Glorieta From Hell" it suddenly occurred to me that a picture of the GFH would be worth a thousand words...
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Machiavelli, Eat Your Heart Out
I woke up knowing I wanted to do something and that, of course, meant a road trip. I sat down with a map and realized that Mary and I had covered an awful lot of the area around Guadalajara. I remember...
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Where The Periferico Ends
Mary and I had cabin fever yesterday from sitting around the house, so we decided to check out a lake near the airport that someone had told us about. The idea was to check it out as a possible investm...
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The Word
This morning Mary and I set out to do some shopping.
We were approaching a glorieta, the one we affectionately call the “Glorieta From Hell”. This glorieta is a circle, of course, but in additi...
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Biscuits On My Computer
Harry and Simon are two friends Mary and I met through my Spanish class. Harry hails from South Carolina and has a very faint trace of a southern accent. Simon is originally from England, but he became...
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Thanksgiving in Puerto Vallarta
I just returned from an all-inclusive five-day trip to Puerto Vallarta. Many of us expats leave at this time of year. First, because it's Thanksgiving and our families are elsewhere; and second, becaus...
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Shopping At The Stoplight
On the last day of the year 2000, Mary and I decided to take a road trip. We studied the map and decided to drive entirely around Lake Chapala. The plan was to take highway 54 south to highway 35 and t...
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Third World Debt
I read, this morning, that Britain is going to forgive some debts owed to it by third world countries. Agitators (code named “activists”) in the US are arguing that the US should do the same. The a...
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Medical and safety
What is the level of health care and medicine in Mexico? (¿Cómo es la calidad de tratamiento médico en México?) What about prescripti...
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Living in Mexico: new discoveries in and around Ajijic
A friend told me a grand old flea market in Guadalajara. She didn't know the street names, but had paid only 35 pesos for an incredible black flapper dress with expensive beading and black fringe work ...
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The Yellow Beetle
After returning from Mexico, I sold my house and almost all of my personal possessions. Most of my remaining stuff was stored in a four by eight foot trailer that was parked next to Mary’s house (Mar...
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A journey to Leon, Guanajuato
Three friends and I headed out of Ajijic for a three-day getaway. Our ultimate destination was León, but we traveled the back roads and visited some delightful villages and cities. The area northeast ...
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Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche
"It's this heat... this heat... that scorches every cell of my body that kills me about this place," the Texan says while sipping his drink. "I'm going to be a linguistic genius with that phrase ...
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The Virgin of Zapopan: Her visit to Lake Chapala
Well, She came out to the lake again last Sunday. Driving in a specialized open car, The Virgin of Zapopan and the Bishop came from Her home, the Basilica of Zapopan to spend the day at the lake, bring...
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