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| Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada | AirBnB | $1,180.03 | Host: Sophie is in WhatsApp Check-in via door combination to be provided. One combination for front door, one for room door. Paid half 2023/01/25. Other half due scheduled for Dec 21, 2023 Free cancellation before 2:00 p.m. on Dec. 29. Cancel before check-in at 2:00 p.m. on Jan. 3 for a partial refund. Laundry on-site Luggage drop | |||
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| Type | Name | Description | Service Provider | Cost | Notes | ||
| General Info | Convento de la Cruz | $0.00 | |||||
| Blog Entries | ||
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| Today is going to be another errand day, but to start things off we walked down the street to the bakery. The one we planned on was not baking… all they had was day-old stuff so we walked to a different bakery. We took a chance on their croissants and they’re actually great! Real croissants (not just the crescent-shaped bread we get almost everywhere out of Europe). The weather was nice enough for us to eat on the roof, and the neighbor’s peacocks came up on their roof to look around while we ate. All around a fantastic morning. We had a great errand morning today, including getting our bus passes (Tarjetas). There is an enormous Mercado near us that we somehow missed when we were here before. We had a good long look at that. Walking home, we stopped for an impromptu look at Templo de Teresitas, then bought some groceries and Brent made salsa for lunch. This evening we went for a walk around the centro historico. I plotted us a route that took us past several of the local churches. \n\n\n\n We first went east and saw our nearby cathedral that we see all the time, Templo La Cruz, and its companion, Capilla del Calvarito. Continuing east, we saw the modern and unusual Templo Expiatorio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús de la Misericordia. We then saw the much more traditional San Isidro. \n\n\n\n We then headed west and saw Templo de la Merced, Templo de la Congregacion de Guadalupe, Parroquia de Santiago, Templo de San Antonio, San Francisco cathedral, and Teresitas. \n\n\n\n We also had a nice walk through a number of parks and shopping corridors, and, in a most delightfully random way, made a new friend. We wandered through Plaza del Corregidora, which is a small park lined with restaurants that we visited a number of times in 2022 (including the infamous cricket incident). While we were walking through we were approached by one of the restaurant hostesses (because they all try to call you in). We brushed her off and then she asked Brent if he speaks German. Well isn’t that unusual. So I started talking with her in German. She lived in Germany for three years and has a son there in Köln. We exchanged phone numbers and are going to meet for a German conversation on Sunday morning.
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