Our last few days in the port were spent shopping, buying last minute souvenirs and saying our goodbyes to all our Mexican friends that were heading home. We all gathered at the Villa Rica restaurant in Boca del Rio, where we first started our amazing stay in Veracruz, toasting our newly-weds one last time, promising to meet again next year. One more chance to wet my feet in the Gulf of Mexico with Amy and then an early 4 am morning taxi cab ride through the dark streets of Veracruz to the airport. It had been a great week and a half and another memorable visit to a new place for us both. So would we go back? If you like cities that are a bit grimy, culturally all mixed up and hot, with strange boxy architecture mixed in with the odd and beautiful colonial building, but friendly, full of traditional restaurants serving delicious food and a carefree spirit that we found in the
zócalo I would say ...si! gws
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| breakfast at the Hotel Gran Diligencias |
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| Centro de Veracruz |
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| dress shopping |
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| too hot to swim! our pool in mid afternoon |
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| district tourista |
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| Veracruz from our hotel |
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| Amy |
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| Marie and Amy |
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| little devil William and Fernanda |
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| Phil, Cesar, Fernando and Minerva |
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| Cesar and Pili, farewell luncheon |
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| Amy, beach Boca del Rio |
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| William and Mom, Villa Rica restaurant |
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| Rosalie waving hasta luego |
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| waiting to fly back to Montreal |
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| back in Texas, waiting, waiting... |
