Our Merida Piscina
We stayed at the Hotel Trinidad Galeria in Merida. The "Galeria" part refers to the greatest hodge podge collection of sculpture, paintings, dolls, cement gargoyles, inflated superheroes,etc. arguably in Mexico. The pool was a godsend in the late afternoon as well as in the early morning. The pool "opened" at 9am, but the cleaners came in at that point, hence a bit of a scheduling issue. We took our morning coffee, brewed in our rooms, which was another no no, and went to the pool at 7am or so before the cleaners awoke. It was sweet, just beginning the day quietly floating in the early morning.
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more 
