In Valladolid now - got here yesterday - smaller town and less touristy although yesterday the organized tour buses came through at about 6pm. Hostel here is excellent - good beds, great back yard with outside kitchen, tables, hammocks, and lots of trees and green. Finally feel like I am getting more adjusted to Mexico, though I must admit not to the midday heat. Here there is less a clear definition between indoors and out, stores and homes open out onto the street, all have grilled windows, doors shut with a padlock. Both the streets and sidewalks are narrow. all is a bit chaotic - but good. Vallodolid pretty well shuts down in the afternoon for the siesta and reopens in the evening. I Feel a bit wierd for I definately stand out as a tourist,
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