My friend Barbara and I traveled to Guanajuato to visit our friend Lucy. Guanajuato is situated in a bowl of lovely high steep hills. With its silver mining history they have an abundance of tunnels that are used to access the city. It’s a rabbit warren maze of tunnels connecting one to another and another. To me it would be a driving nightmare.
Also it is the steepest city I have ever seen, and one of the most charming. The streets are very narrow one lane cobblestone, and steep. Lucy’s lovely home is at the upper end of a series of twisty, turney streets. Her street is so steep I could not walk up or down it. It truly terrified me. Cab and uber drivers have to take two and three running starts to get up it. One can smell the tires burning as they attempt to gain traction. Fortunately hers is a short street and we always got home safely.
One afternoon we had a great meal at a tiny 6 seat restaurant where you sit and eat family style right in the kitchen. You get to visit with the cook while she prepares the meal of the day. On our day it was cauliflower soup and veggie lasagna.
While taking a break from shopping we stopped at a French bakery for lunch. As it had become quite warm I needed to shed a layer of clothing. Later that afternoon it was raining so hard we all bought umbrellas to manage the two “pedestrian only” blocks to where we could catch a cab.
Still we were pretty wet, so we headed to La Clave Azul. It’s an iconic cave like bar where the tapas of the day arrive with your drinks. It is several rooms on several levels, but with no railings on the rough stone stairs I was unable to explore all the rooms.
An evening at the 1903 Teatro Juarez to watching the Ballet Folkloric tracing the roots Mexican culture was definitely a highlight of the trip.
Signing off KO
Zihuatanejo 