For those of you contemplating a journey to Mexico, especially those who are planning to learn Spanish through immersion, I’ve put together a list of what we paid for things. Exchange rates vary day to day, so I’m using an average of $14 peso to the U.S. dollar. Most days were a little less than [...]
Entries Tagged as 'El Centro'
What Things Cost on Our Mexican Immersion Trip
February 9th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Aguascalientes · El Centro · Guanajuato · Learning Spanish · Mexico · Oaxaca Mexico · San Miguel de Allende · Spanish · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish · What things cost
There’s a Starbucks in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
February 3rd, 2009 No Comments
There’s a Starbucks in the historic district of San Miguel de Allende. You may be appalled by that or that may be good news to you.
On the one hand, it’s the “HISTORIC DISTRICT”!!!!! What is it about historic district that they don’t understand?
On the other hand, it’s still in a historic building. And it’s [...]
Tags: El Centro · immersion · Immersion school · Immersion Schools · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Mexico · San Miguel de Allende · Spanish · speak Spanish · Starbucks · Travel Spanish
A Little Time Spent in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
February 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Right now it’s late on a Tuesday afternoon. We arrived at about the same time of day on Sunday, and since yesterday was a holiday and there was no school, we had a few hours on Sunday, all day yesterday and a few hours today to explore (school started today). I’ll review the school [...]
Tags: El Centro · Guanajuato · immersion · Immersion school · Immersion Schools · Instituto Allende · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Mexico · Spanish · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish
The Morning of Our Last Full Day in Guanajuato
January 30th, 2009 No Comments
Friday Morning: We leave tomorrow for Aguascalientes. We were obsessing about getting our bus tickets. Monday is a holiday here, so we didn’t want to take a chance on not having tickets early, but we didn’t want to go out to the bus station, 20 minutes away, either. It turns out that there is [...]
Tags: El Centro · Guanajuato · immersion · Immersion school · Immersion Schools · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Mexico · Spanish · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish
Immersion School, Guanajuato: Day 2
January 28th, 2009 No Comments
Bill here:
We’re getting into the routine, now. And today we stayed closer to home base and didn’t go into El Centro to explore. For one thing, we’re pretty busy. Class runs until 1:30, and by then we’re starting to get hungry. Today that led us to Cafe de la Presa Bristro. It was a lovely [...]
Tags: El Centro · Guanajuato · immersion · Immersion school · Immersion Schools · Learning Spanish · Mexico · Spanish · Travel Spanish
Our First Day in Guanajuato Mexico
January 28th, 2009 No Comments
It would have been nice to have a free day after traveling, but with work schedules and all, this is going to be a busy trip. And we are here to study Spanish, so our first morning we get up bright and early and head off for school (which is down the block and across [...]
Tags: El Centro · Flick'r · Guanajuato · immersion · Immersion school · Immersion Schools · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Mexico · Skype · Spanish · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish
Sherry and Bill Explore Buenos Aires
November 7th, 2008 No Comments
This is the Subte, short for subterrainean. 90 centavos per ride, which is about 29 cents. If you Google Buenos Aires, Subte, map, then you can probably find a map of the subway system. We’re on line A, about half a block from the station Acoyte, on Ave Rivedavia. Basically, we just cross the street [...]
Tags: Argentina · Buenos Aires · El Centro · Immersion school · Learn Spanish · Plaza de Mayo. · Spanish · subte · Travel Spanish
