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October 23, 2002
Guanajuato this city is filling
Guanajuato
this city is filling up, we managed to get here right before the last weekend of the cervantino festival, this huge festival with cultural stuff from all over the world. we got here last night and were wandering around looking for the hostels, and these guys came up to us. they convinced us to get in their car and took us to a casa de huespedes, pascual and i both had our hands on our knives but it turned out to be lucky, we dumped our stuff there and went back down into the city to find that the hostels were all full or charging more then the 8 bucks each we negotiated for. from there we wandered the city, the layout is really cool, they crammed guanajuato between two steep mountains, so its long narrow and winding. half of the streets run underneath the city, they zigzag and come up and down, its confusing but really cool, tons of tunnels and steep staircases. i found some tamales dulces, sweet tamales with pasas (raisins) and nuts and pinapple, for a buck i got two, man o man so damn good. anyways, we wandered the city, watching people play drums in the street to crowds dancing, it reminded me a bit of carnival in tolosa, spain, when aaron erich and i followed a group of drunken minstrals through the street. pascual and i found a good bar, the bartender played a bunch of musica ranchera for us, including some famous song about this town, called life in guanajuato isnt worth anything. pascual apparently likes to drink, we had some beers and some tequila, he a bit more then i, then we left and stumbled back towards our hostel room. this year the festival has invited canada as the invited country, pascual liked that, he knows of some of the canadian acts performing, we are gonna go try and hang out with them, who knows how that will go.
had a long busride here yesterday, staring out the window as the countryside changed, the next time i come to mexico i wanna have a car. it was a good busride though, got some good alone time to think about stuff. i realized that i should get an official teaching certificate to teach english when i get back, and more importantly, i realized that as soon as i can i need to get to a beach where i can sit back and read and do nothing for a good amount of time. looks like that will be on the oaxaca coast, far from here and i have to cross mexico city to get there, but thats my new destination. anyways, gotta get out of here, back to the city, also, they have a good veggie restaurant here, i had a vegan soyburger for lunch, how cool is that?
Posted by bendan at October 23, 2002 10:12 AM
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