Blogs from Puebla City, Puebla, Mexico, North America - page 2

Making our return to British Columbia we left Oaxaca RV Park after a lovely 3 day stay and took the Auto pista to Pueblo. A beautiful drive high over the mountain passes with excellent road surfaces, a little pricey on Tolls . Found an empty lot beside a Pemmex behind a restaurant that blocked the freeway noise with even a yard for the dogs to run. The price was right Free and the owners a delight. This is Mexico very friendly. Leaving very early try to get through Guadalajara , on the bypass route and as close to Tepic on the west coast as possible. well did that not change in a hurry when we had such a perfect morning traveled through Puebla with ease , the bypass of Mexico city watching the compass to make ... read more

Deze maandag ben ik verhuisd van hostel. Mijn hostel buiten het centrum was toch te eenzaam en dus heb ik er een gevonden binnen het centrum. Dat bleek een goed besluit, want toen ik daar aankwam kwam ik bijna gelijk iemand tegen die me aansprak omdat ik een buitenlander ben. Hij vroeg waar ik vandaan kom en toen ik zei dat ik uit Nederland kom, zei hij dat hij een Engels leraar is voor Mexicanen en dat hij altijd toeristen aanspreekt om zijn studenten te helpen met Engels. Hij had bovendien een boekje waar alle toeristen wat in schrijven als ze een dag met hem en zijn studenten doorbrengen. Daarin stond een Nederlandse tekst en hij vroeg of ik die wilde vertalen. Nadat ik dat voor hem gedaan had, vroeg hij of ik mee wilde op ... read more

HE SAID... Today we were leaving Mexico City and travelling south east to Puebla. We grabbed our packs from our room in Hotel Metropol, checked out and jumped into a minibus, which took us to Terminal Oriente (TAPO), the bus terminal next to San Lazaro. We walked through the terminal, picked up our tickets, had our hand luggage searched, loaded our packs into the under carriage and settled in our comfortable ATO bus to Puebla. We left Mexico City at 11:30am and arrived at Puebla’s bus station at 1:30pm. We jumped into a taxi and sped towards the city’s historic centre. The taxi trip was eye opening and unexpected, as I didn’t realise Puebla was Mexico’s fourth largest city with a population of four million. The outer suburbs were sprawling, crowded and gritty, and as we ... read more

Today was our last day in Tlaxcala! It was a good one, but still very sad. One of the first visits was to the convention center. This center was open to the public; funny thing about the center being 'public' is that it wasn't truly public in the sense that if you looked like you didn't belong -aka a group of white people -the security person would stop you and ask a series of questions. After we were given the run down we were able to walk around the center and check it all out. After some impromptu photo's and learning a little bit about Mexico's health care (can we say cray cray?!) we headed over to see the other side of the center In the 20th century was largely textile factories, as well as storage ... read more

Running a little late to breakfast we didn't have time to eat breakfast at the hotel's restaurant so we ran to the lobby to make sure we didn't miss the bus. Expecting to have to reenact a cliche scene from a movie -the one where the main character runs after the bus and never actually catches it -it was a surprise to see that everyone was hanging out in the front lobby. In addition to seeing the rest of our group, we also saw some suspicious characters; and by suspicious we mean there was a camera (the kind reporters use) and a couple of people talking with our professor, whom we have never seen before. Upon being told that we still had some time before we were heading out we decided to head out and buy ... read more