Mexico Christmas 2017 – MariaTravels.info

December 18, 2017

Mexico for Christmas

Why go to Mexico for Christmas? 2017 was the first time since we had the kids (1988) that we didn’t spend the holidays with our family. Brian and Eleni had to work over Christmas and George only had a day and a half off. We had our family time the week before Thanksgiving when Eleni...

December 19, 2017

Exploring Coyoacan

December 18th We had great connections and flights from Pensacola to Mexico City where we had planned to meet Lea and Max at the airport, all of us scheduled to arrive around 3pm. But things didn’t work out as planned. Their flight didn’t arrive until 11:30pm. We hung around in the quiet lobby of the...

December 20, 2017

Ancient Pyramids and Modern Downtown

December 20th Alberto loaned us his car for the day so we could explore the city further. We started out with a visit to the famous Tectihoucan archeological site to see the pyramids. It was a gritty 2 hour drive through miles of urban sprawl. The population of Mexico City exploded since World War II...

December 22, 2017

Road Trip to Oaxaca

December 22, 2017 Today is a travel day. Bill and I had purchased one way tickets from Mexico City to Oaxaca since we really didn’t know what size car the others would be traveling in when we first made the plans. Alberto ended up with a work van because he was hauling 10 tires to...

December 23, 2017

Oaxaca City

December 23 A beautiful sunny day. Winter weather is cold at night and warm in the afternoons. Morning started with a bit of stress with one of my rentals. When I checked my email at breakfast I saw a message from a guest who had checked in two nights earlier. She had a housekeeping problem...

December 25, 2017

Marathon Christmas Eve Day

December 24 It’s Christmas Eve day and we have a big day planned. Bill and I woke early and walked to the Zocalo to find coffee and breakfast. All the exhibits from the radish Festival had already been pulled down. Christmas Eve (Nocha Bueno) is the big day of celebrations for the Christmas season, much...

December 26, 2017

Touring on Christmas

We still had our rental car in the morning so I asked Max to drive us around Oaxaca to get a feel for the neighborhoods in case we want to come back with the kids for a family vacation. There wasn’t much open for breakfast on Christmas morning but Max spotted a lovely hotel that...