Typical Mexican breakfast
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“A la Mexicana” eggs has peppers and onions. Almost everything has onions, it seems, but rarely garlic. I’d rather garlic but never remembered to ask.
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Lunch at a cheap local restaurant we have been to before. Wanted to eat fish tacos at El Rey for the last time but he was closed the whole week we were in town. Saw him again, as he was getting ready to open, on the way to bus station the day we left. I asked if he was closed the whole week, and that I checked every day. He said “yes. I’m open now.” I told him I’d come eat his fish tacos again, maybe next year. The guest house owners confirmed my theory. El Rey opens whenever he feels like it, probably only when he needs money. Whenever he’s open people come. That’s the kind of reputation he/his business has.
At “Mana”, cocina economica. Their printed menu also has English but nobody speaks it. Just point to order, or learn some Spanish.
Part of the set lunch. Meat and bone broth but the soup contains no actual meat.
I ate all the corn. It’s a type of corn that is white and the kernels are very big.
We could only manage to finish 1 piece of meat. Not used to eating so much meat anymore.
Brought another big piece of yellowtail we caught to a restaurant. The guest house owners joined us again.
Half the fish was cooked “Veracruz” style. Looks soupy here.
Aguachile really does this fish justice.
Borrowed this 4 pint “growler” from the guest house owners. Drank so much beer every day. “Cryohop” IPA in the big bottle.
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Thanks, GretchenS! Really do hope them/you can make the trip!
I’ve been to both ends***** of this amazing planet and about 40 countries between them, and the first Mexico trip is probably the most incredible thus far. Nothing can top the whale encounters . So glad I didn’t go to NZ or Australia. Probably never will after having done this trip because I think Mexico has a lot of potential to enrich my life.
I still need to make a trip to see my other Number One favourite animal but not sure yet when that will happen. Then I’ll know, when I die I will die happy.
(*****) As close to the poles as I possibly could go by boat and commercial flights: Spitzbergen, Norwegian high arctic and Antarctica.
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