After a simple lunch we got into the car and started to find our way to San Miguel de Allende. The main goal of this ride was 1) avoid Mexico City at all cost
2) arrive at San Miguel in one piece, but both proved to be rather difficult. The first was my fault as I made Chris take one wrong turn, despite the advice of our magic box and we almost ended up in the city again. Yuck! The second was rather hard to achive since the Mexican drivers do not seem to follow any exact driving rules or use blinkers.... or anything else that we may be used to. Thanks to Chris' fantastic driving skills we were able to make it all the way to San Miguel after all.
We got here only to find out that we arrived right in the middle of one of the biggest celebrations this town has to offer - The Festival of Our Lord of the Conquest (kind of sad & ironic). It took us a bit to find the way to our hotel as the whole downtown was blocked off - so Chris let me out of the car, I ran to the hotel through the crowds and parades and asked the receptionist for the best way to navigate to our hotel. Needless, to say that Chris was very relieved once he parked in the underground garage in our hotel and got out of the car for the next two days! We were very pleased with our hotel - Posada Carmina. It is a very cute colonial villa with a beatiful courtyard garden...and the rooms, so nice and comfy with the old colonial charm.
We spent the evening just walking around Jardin (the main square) watching all the colorful Aztec dancers. We have never really seen anything quite like it! The celebrations finished with a beatufil fireworks display after which we headed to La Posadita - this chraming restaurant on top of one of the negihboring villas with views of the surrounding churches - spectacular! I believe it is safe to say that we fell in love with this charming town!!! Oh did I mention that Chris tried to kill all of his taste butts by eating load of cayenne pepper in his soup... oops!
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