A TOURIST IN CUERNAVACA

To be a tourist in Cuernavaca means that one concentrates on the centre of the city.  I have been driven all over the place and to me it all looks the same with cemented buildings often opened to divulge a small tienda usually selling junk food, drinks and the like.  These are interspersed with others selling clothes, or cell phones, or handmade items, or fruit.

Then there is the centre.  Around a lovely park are street upon street with stores that sell mainly shoes (I have never seen so many shoe stores). Equal or in second place are stores for cell phones and cell phone stuff.  I could not find a battery for my camera.  There is only one camera store and it didn't have my kind of camera.  EVERYONE has one of the latest cell phones. And yes, they are on it almost constantly.

But let's look at the best part of Cuernavaca...el centro.

This is in the central parque where bands are heard daily.

                        My teacher and I in the park.  He is buying juice from one of the many stalls.

                  These are shots from the gardens outside an art museum and no one was there.

These three churches are situated around a beautiful square with lovely gardens.  The top one offers mass in English, the second in a the local language and the bottom is part of the La Cathedrale which is a 15th century building.

This whole area is beautiful and relaxing, but it is so hard to get to in that it takes me an hour of rough bumpy bus riding to get there.  I did spend a couple of hours in the cafeteria overlooking the gardens. Unfortunately there was a negative side to my pleasure: I spent $12 on a plate of fruit, a brownie and a popsicle.  I had not calculated it until later.  When you see $25 you need to stop and think that this is in pesos and that amounts to our $2.50 or so.

What makes me so dumb these days!! I am learning. But oh, so slowly.