Mexico - Winter 23/24 : 2023-12-31 : NYE in San Miguel de Allende

Trip Log Trip List Calendar

< Previous Day
Next Day >
Accommodation
Type Name Service Provider Confirmation Location Cost Notes Actions
Bed and Breakfast Departamento maria loreto AirBnB $415.21 Paid $207.61 2023/01/27. Balance due Dec 15.
Free cancelation before Dec 23.
Host: Maria. Please reach out to the Host for how to check-in. See Host guidebook for suggestions. Maria says it's ok that we'll arrive so late (due to the flight change)
Luggage drop
Laundromat nearby. Back yard with furniture. Luggage drop. Awesome rooftop terrace. Great location. Close to centro. Check-in: 15:00, out: 12:00


Trip Log

Notes Actions
When we were walking in town the other day I noticed a restaurant had a ‘breakfast buffet’ sign outside. I tagged it in Maps.Me without making note of the name.

Today we went past for breakfast. They were late opening so we had a coffee in the foyer coffee shop (something you wouldn’t find in Canada). Finally they opened and Brent chose us a table to sit at. He thought he recognized the restaurant and we figured we had visited it in 2022 with Elissa. Well, yeah we did… and we sat in the same chairs at the same table. Check the photo from 2022 (holding beers) for comparison. The restaurant is La Pamplonada and the breakfast was amazing - well worth the wait (they opened 90-minutes late). They also had the special spiced coffee that we had at Simon’s hole in the wall lunch spot in Querétaro in 2022.
Today we did a walk around three interesting neighborhoods (Guadalupe, Independencia and San Rafael) and Mercado San Juan de Dios.

The Mercado was unique in a number of ways but two that stuck out for me were (1) the random shrines everywhere and (2) the itty bitty arcade in it. I was an arcade junkie when I was a teenager. I would have loved the itty bitty arcade.

Brent and I decided that if we stay in SMA again we’ll try to get a place in Barrio Guadalupe. It is beautiful and interesting, with lots of amenities, and it’s close… but not TOO close to the e main square.
Our AirBnB is very close to the main square, and we have a great rooftop patio, so we figured that would be the best place to watch the New Years fireworks.

We took a late siesta and got up at 10:30. The view from our rooftop is essentially 360•, which is good because it seemed that every neighborhood in the city was setting off fireworks and we could see almost all of them.


Photos

< Previous Day
Next Day >