Thursday, April 12, 2007

We arrived in Guanajuato after an actually delightful bus ride. The hotel arrangements I had made online were a disaster. Even though we had confirmed the reservation, they really didn't have a room for us. We also were dooped by the internet pictures that were probably taken in 1980. So we set out to find other arrangements. Armed with our trusty travel guide "The Lonely Planet", we found another hostel. It was a 300 year old guest house. We dropped the small fib that we were on our honeymoon and the owner gave us the big room at the top of the house. We were so happy with ourselves but the owner disturbed our nap to tell us that there was some sort of mistake with reservations and someone had already paid for this room. So we were sent down to the dungeon. This was literally a cave. You can see the entrance on the slide show. The place was run by a great woman, Pita who made us a delicious breakfast and chatted with us. I was glad to finally practice my Spanish. Guanajuato is a beautiful city that has small streets and alleys and colorfully painted houses. This was the Mexico we were searching for all this time. It was loaded with travelers for Semana Santa(Easter Week). We visited a house that Diego Rivera lived in that also had early paintings and drawings he did. Callejon De Beso is a small alleyway where the balconies were so close that two forbidden lovers were able to kiss across the alley.



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