Guanajuato 2025

Trip List Calendar

2025-02-08 : Travel to Mexico City
We flew to Mexico City via Toronto today. Before we even got to Toronto I realized that I probably forgot my heart meds at home. They didn’t make it onto my checklist and if it isn’t on my checklist, it doesn’t happen. Eek!

The moment we landed I messaged Shannon and Elissa to see if they could help - Shannon to send my pills to Elissa in Calgary and Elissa to bring them along when she comes to meet us next week. I also called the Cross to ask how big a deal it is if I missed taking them for a couple of weeks, and they seemed to think it could be a pretty big deal but they weren’t willing to say one way or another. I was busy trying to sort all that out while Brent and I used public transit to get to where we’re staying - that part of the day went off without a hitch.

Shannon and I couldn’t find a courier that would get the pills to Calgary on time for Elissa to bring them, but while we were fiddling with that idea, Elissa talked to her pharmacist and got a solution - my pharmacist sent my Rx down to Elissa’s pharmacist in Calgary and Elissa can pick up some replacement pills for me tomorrow, well before she has to leave to come meet us in Guanajuato.

While I was panicking, I also reached out to Nancy and Michel to see if they could help, and while they were both willing, Elissa already had a solution before I had to inconvenience anyone else. Yay!

So Brent and I settled in to our beautiful AirBnB and then walked around Mexico City’s Centro Historico. We stumbled onto both Garibaldi Plaza, which is a riot, and Templo Mayor. We’ll have to go back tomorrow and get another look at Templo Mayor. It’s huge and really cool.


2025-02-09 : Mexico City - Templo, Lucha Libre and Mariachi Central
We had a super-full, super-fun day today.

First we got acquainted with the Mexico City transit system and ended up in Centro Historico where we got a closer look at the archaeological site of Templo Mayor.

We then made our way down to Roma Norte where we met up with our tour group to have some beer and tacos, and attend a Lucha Libre wrestling match, which was delightfully over-the-top.

We then came back to our part of town and had a final beer at Plaza Garibaldi, which is absolutely crawling with mariachi bands. The folks at the next table hired three different mariachi bands to play songs for them while we had our beers.


2025-02-10 : Mexico City
We went out for breakfast this morning at a place that our host recommended and visited a bakery that he recommended. They were both very nice but definitely more upscale than we are.

We then went to do some walking around. Highlights were the Bellas Artes, the Ciudadela artesans market and the purple statue of Justice and The Young Woman of Amajac.

Now we’re taking an afternoon siesta because all of this walking around after almost a year of hardly moving is pooping me out!
After a bit of a recharge, we went back out walking. We visited Catedral Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México, which is enormous, and even has a gift shop right in the cathedral. We then walked down Calle Emiliano Zapata, which I found really interesting - it had raised walkways on either side and (finally) some street art. We walked as far as La Santísima before turning around and having dinner and a beer on our AirBnB terrace.


2025-02-11 : Mexico City, Elissa arrives Guanajuato
Short walkabout this morning to Chinatown, which was very pretty and very small.
After visiting Chinatown, we went out for some more walking. We walked around the northeast end of Centro Historico, which was crazy busy, and then took the metro wayyyyy down to the Coyoacán neighborhood where the Frida Kahlo museum is. Unfortunately the museum was sold out of tickets for today but Coyoacán was really interesting anyway. We had a look at Iglesia de San Juan Bautista, which was very nice.

When we were ready to leave Coyoacán, I suggested to Brent that we go back up to Plaza Garibaldi one last time before we leave Mexico City. I popped the question and asked him if he would Mariachi me, so we went up to the Plaza, got a beer, and in relatively short order a Mariachi band found us and we got Mariachi’d!


2025-02-12 : Travel to Guanajuato
Elissa had a heck of a journey getting down here, but she made it last night, and brought me my missing heart meds.

We left our Airbnb at 7:30 this morning and took the metro to Central del Norte and left Mexico City on a Primera Plus bus, which was crazy clean and comfortable. We had a six hour ride to get to Guanajuato to meet up with Elissa. Our airbnbs are on the same tiny steep alley, and amazingly, our patios face each other! Crazy.


2025-02-13 : Guanajuato
We went for a walk all over Guanajuato today, including walking up to the monument across the valley from us, visiting five Catholic Churches, and walking up Kiss Alley (Callejon de Beso). A special surprise was getting in a quick visit with Uriel and Ana from Queretaro as they were in town with a client.


2025-02-14 : Guanajuato - Mummy Museum
Today we walked over to the mummy museum. I was taking us the long, boring way, but Brent spied a sign for a side route up some colorful stairs to get there instead. Much better!

The mummy museum itself was educational, fascinating, disturbing and grim. The mummies were much more recent than I expected - one died in 1967. They were not mummified deliberately… it just happened as a result of the local conditions. I was disproportionately fascinated by the quality of the shoes (on the mummies who had shoes).

When we were walking down from the mummy museum, Elissa talked to a fellow who warned us that the path we were on had biting dogs on it and he recommended a different way. Of course, we took his advice.

After the museum we took a walk along a ridge visiting a number of look-offs (and look off we did). We then had lunch in the Mercado.


2025-02-15 : Guanajuato
Another day in paradise walking all over Guanajuato. We spent the morning by ourselves while Elissa dealt with some health stuff then we met up, walked back up to the big monument, walked through some of the tunnels, and went for some dinner.


2025-02-16 : Guanajuato
Another great day of walking around Guanajuato. It’s a great city for exploring. It has a zillion callejónes (alleys) that are just narrow paths and staircases between houses.

I’ve been feeling like I’m coming down with something so I decided to stay in this evening. Brent has gone over to Elissa’s rooftop patio for sunset.


2025-02-17 : Guanajuato
Another morning in Guanajuato and guess what we did? That’s right… we walked around! We hadn’t really been in the SW part of the city yet so we covered that this time. On the way back I started to bonk (I’m still sick with some kind of head cold, just not so bad that I’m knocked right down) so we high-tailed it back through one of the tunnels. It was long and dark and noisy, and there was some annoying Canadian woman singing ‘I Am Cow’ all the way… oh wait… that was me.


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