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30 days San Miguel de Allende
Question: How is it, staying in the same place for a month? -ya, besides my house.
Accommodations: Casa Corazon, 1 month rental pre-booked
Transport: International Flight and Airport pick up pre-booked
3 Friends came to visit
My Experiences:
Fun Meter: The meeting of the skirts. I met Karen on the street, which led to Thanksgiving Dinner for 10, prepared in an over the top villa. Mind you, we traipsed around to 3 markets and 9 stores to get the ingredients for the dinner. National Geographic, guest speakers with photo slideshows at Theatre Bellas Artes, Instituto Allende, Academia de Fotografia for workshops, House Tours, got picked to dance with the band ( it was the skirt again), Latin Guitar, Day of the Dead, cemetary decorations and celebrations. . . . the wetlands and barrel cactus carpet at the Botanical Gardens and La Gruta's 4 pools and a cave swimming, thermal hot springs. Local wine shop full of great international wine. For upmarket art, interior,antique galleriers, shop at Fabrica La Aurora. Or worked my way from the in town food market stalls through the textiles and accessories for a mile. Excursions to Guanajuato, "place of frogs" a city of great architecture, art and artist Diego Riveria, Frida Kahlo, mummies, silver and Don Quixote museum.
$$ Money Debits- oil paints and supplies scarce and expensive. International wine
$$- Money Credits- Local Market offerings keep the food budget intact. It helped to have two visiting organic chefs too! And the locals restaurants for authentic abound.
Bottomline- 30 days in the same place is great, when it's San Miguel de Allende.
Note to self- When the town, tantalizes all 5 of my senses, then 30 days is worth a house, villa, or chateau rental. take off- senses wide open.
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