Mexico City > Puebla

This morning Jen and I parted ways with Ruben and Tati: they're on their way back home to Cuernavaca, while Jen and I are now in Puebla. We checked into the Hotel Colonial mid-afternoon, and have settled here nicely. It's a lovely hotel, the architecture of which makes obvious that this was at one point either a monastery or convent.

Here's the restaurant inside the hotel. It's wonderful:

Our rooms are nice: two single beds, two balconies (the hotel's on a corner, so we have a balcony on each of the cross-streets), and a small bathroom. The room hsa a safe, and a tv with cable. Here's the view from each of our balconies. First, hers:

Then mine (photo taken late afternoon):

We'll be stationed here for the next 5 nights. Tomorrow I want to do a tour of the city. My focus will be mainly churches. Puebla is known for having many and beautiful churches! I'm in the right place...

On Wednesday Jen and I want to do a day trip to Tlaxcala.

Thursday is 5 de mayo, a big celebratory day here. I think it commemorates the defeat by the Mexicans of the Spanish army, or something along those lines. We will watch the army parade throughout the city, and then in the afternoon we want to head to Cholula.

Friday we will rent a car and go for a drive. We're not sure yet what our destination will be, but my preference would be to get as close to the Popocatépetl as we can and do some hiking.

And finally, on Saturday we will take a late morning bus to Cuernavaca, where the emphasis of our time here in Mexico will be not so much sightseeing (although that too) but meeting up with Juanjo and catching up with Ruben and Tati.