Choosing a Spanish school in Mexico
The reasons to learn a foreign language are many. "For those of us traveling or living in Mexico, there is no doubt that learning Spanish enriches our lives," says Ohio native Anne Meyer, a social stud...
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Guadalajara resource page: Jalisco's capital of culture and festivals
Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco and the "Pearl of the West." Founded in 1542, Mexico's second largest city is a bustling metropolis with a colonial heart and a provincial soul. Guadalara is a cen...
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San Juan de Los Lagos: The Virgin, her basilica, her pilgrims, and their exvotos
Exvotos are both very public and extremely personal -- like "thank you notes to God."
read moreZuno House Is Doubly "Historic" - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
It's an historic house in its own right but was designed to teach Mexican history. So it's doubly "historic."
The person who said modern artists try to hide their meanings was wrong. This house was...
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Prodeur - Preserving The Heritage
Visitors - even those who come regularly - will always find something they haven't seen before by taking long strolls in Guadalajara's mansion area. Hungry? That's where the best restaurants are.
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Roustabouts For Hire
It was like following three battleships. The shoppers rolled away like bow waves before the three
"cargadores" who churned toward them with two hundred pounds of produce on each of their hand ca...
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Guadalajara Street Scene
Right behind Hospicio Cabañas, at the south-east corner of that building, you abruptly run into a rabbit warren of narrow streets, dilapidated
adobe buildings, lots of old cars and poorly dress...
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Golfing in the Guadalajara and Lake Chapala area
Guadalajara
Guadalajara Country Club
Atlas Country Club
Club de Golf Santa Anita
Lake Chapala Area
Chapala Country Club
Chula Vista Country Club S.C
Guadalajara C...
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Did You Know? Three thousand people died in 1833 Guadalajara cholera epidemic
When Mexico braced herself for the imminent arrival of cholera from South America fifteen years ago, many people believed that the disease had never previously been known here. During the nineteenth ce...
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Murals come to life in the Florence of Mexico: Guadalajara
In Guadalajara with a short time to spare after a business meeting or a long wait between flight? Even an hour or two will suffice to see something of the artistic heritage that Mexico's second city, G...
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Railroads in western Mexico: the next train to arrive....
Many of the things we take for granted today didn't exist in the last century. A case in point is the railroad from Manzanillo to Guadalajara.
The grand celebrations for the inauguration of this line,...
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The Horse Show and How to Shoot Straight
Jaime sprayed the dark, empty cobblestone street from left to right with a few quick rounds, mostly for effect. To his surprise he heard the explosion of glass.
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An artistic evolution: Three modern Mexican muralists
For these three young men, art is not just an integral part of their lives, but a vital force in society as a whole.
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Famed Singer Bankrolls State-of-the-art Arena For Charreria Championship
Motorists traveling recently along the Guadalajara-Chapala highway may have been puzzled by what looks like the structural foundations of a mighty cathedral rising up near the roadway between the airpo...
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The museums of Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque
Guadalajara is the second largest city in Mexico. Many of the galleries of Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque can be considered museums in their own right.
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Guadalajara links
GUADALAJARA
Local websites reveal that Guadalajara
is a lot more than just tequila and mariachis.
Guadalajara has always been a popular destination thanks to its lively music, beau...
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Walking the walk, talking the talk - ¿Mucho macho, eh?
“Watch out, Mom!” yelled Rose as the metal hulk of a city bus bore down upon the busy street corner. Hopping instantly back onto the curb, I choked on gasoline fumes while litter swirled in the bus...
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Walking the walk, talking the talk - letting go in Mexico
Josh, fourteen, and Rose, twelve, were keen to discover Mexico in their own way in San Patricio/ Melaque. As they were six and eight when last they frolicked in the waves, they now felt mature and open...
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To the charreada with stars in her eyes
"There is a sensitive filament in our beings, which responds to Mexican music….
To the sight of a horse well ridden, to the spectacle of a bull skillfully lassoed….
All of us, a...
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Cantinflas, the castillo and ponche in the plaza
Introduction to the Series
Part 1 - Part 2 Part 3
As the evening mass ended, the huge colonial doors of Santa Maria Magdalena swung open. People swarmed down the church sta...
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Charreada in Guadalajara
Introduction to the Series
Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
In rural Canada, I live close to the land and to a farming lifestyle that was once traditional. Therefore, when I’m in Mexico th...
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Cockfighting - Chicken Soup For The Soul
The Sunday Mexican
fiesta at Guadalajara's Camino Real promised cockfighting. I should have expected the "cockfight" would amount to a quick display of two cheerfully bored roosters who could have...
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Ojo Del Lago - A Trip to See the Monarchs
May 1997 Guadalajara-Lakeside Volume 13, Number 9
A TRIP TO SEE THE MONARCHS
Author: Thurman Alexander
The Monarch butterfly is a familiar sight to most people in the United States...
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Living memories: photographs by Mexico's Miguel Angel Martinez
"Contact with nature has always been my primary inspiration. The energy that you receive is powerful, and at the same time, peaceful."
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Judy's amazing adventure
By mid-October, everything was done, I was packed and ready to leave. I placed the cat carrier on the front seat, hugged my friends as they warned me again that I would surely be raped and pillaged, cl...
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