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Sparkling Wineries in Querétaro: Viva Freixenet!
Blog: Midwesterner in Mexico - 29 August 2011
I’ve shared before how I’m a sucker for well-branded tourism, so Querétaro’s efforts to promote their wine & cheese “route” certainly did not fall on deaf ears during my time in México. Even before we made our trip to Finca Vai for some cheese tasting, we drove from Mexico City to the same area in [...]
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Cheese Tourism in Mexico: a visit to Finca Vai
Blog: Midwesterner in Mexico - 15 August 2011
Cheese and dairy products in general are one of my favorite things to eat. So when I learned via Querétaro’s robust tourism board of a nearby farm that combined cheese-making with a barnyard animal petting zoo, it seemed like a no-brainer. The fact that it was basically a simulated visit to the Midwest was just [...]
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Tequisquiapan, Geographic Center of Mexico?
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 25 May 2010
On my quest to see a little more of the tiny but fascinating State of Queretaro, I boarded a confusing combination of buses in Bernal and Ezekiel Montes to travel to Tequisquiapan, Mexico. This tiny town’s claim to fame is that it is the geographic center of the country, a fact seemingly confirmed by a [...]
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Magical, Mystical Bernal de la Pena, Mexico
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 21 May 2010
As I sat at the foot of La Pena, waiting for the light and sound show to begin, I concentrated on what I felt. Exceeded in height only by Gibraltar and Sugarloaf Mountain in Brazil, this third tallest monolithic rock in the world is believed to have mystical powers. Some say it exudes a magnetic [...]
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Queretaro, Mexico – Both City and State Filled with Scenic Wonders
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 19 May 2010
The City of Santiago de Queretaro surprised me. Of the 32 Mexican States, only five are smaller than the State of Queretaro, thus I had expected its capital city to be small and compact, but my bus drove through miles of suburbs sprawled across rolling hills before pulling into the outlying bus terminal. My taxi [...]
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La Peña De Bernal
Blog: Abrhil's Travel Blog - 18 July 2009
Thursday night, in a very typical Abrhil manner (spur of the moment, “lets do it” style of traveling), we decided that we would take the day Friday and drive to La Peña De Bernal. It's not a long drive, only about 1:45min from SMA, so on Friday morning we had breakfast, got our walking shoes, put on sunblock and set off on our adventure.
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Monolithic! – Bernal, Querétaro, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 22 June 2009
For a tiny town, Bernal–less than an hour from Querétaro–has a lot going for it, including Peña de Bernal (Bernal’s Boulder or Bernal Peak) which is, according to some estimates, the second largest monolith in the world after Mt. Augustus in Western Australia. At 350 meters (1150 ft) tall it’s also the fourth tallest (or third tallest, again, depending on who you ask) monolith in the world after Mount Augustus, the Rock of Gilbraltar and Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio. As you can imagine, a pedigree like that attracts a lot of rock climbers.
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Wonderful Wine Ice – Querétaro, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 18 June 2009
You’ve probably heard of ice wine–a dessert wine made from grapes that have been frozen on the vine which concentrates their sugars. But Wine Ice? It was news to us too but anything that has wine in it is worth a try and a few pesos so when we were tipped off to a local concoction of homemade lemon ice drowned in red wine at an ice-cream shop called Nieveria Italy in Querétaro, Mexico we went full steam ahead. Nieveria Italy in Querétaro, Mexico has been in business since 1940 and is the home of Nieve de Limon con Vino Tino. We were skeptical.
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Move Here Now – Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 18 June 2009
The cradle of Mexican Independence is now the country’s hottest place to live.
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Impressions of Mexico
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 11 June 2009
When I wrote about my ten (pre-trip) favourite countries at the end of last year, Mexico was the winner. After spending six weeks there, I’m even more in love with the country than I was before. Here are some of the reasons why: The colours One of the first things that struck me about Mexico was how [...]
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Where three streets have one name
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 5 April 2009
I should have started to worry when the taxi driver asked me three times which street my hostel was on. First of all he stopped outside number 109, when I’d quite clearly said (and showed him) that the address was 99. ‘No esta’ I said. ’si, esta aqui’ he replied. I then pointed out the hotel we [...]
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Photo highlights from Querétaro State
Blog: Midwesterner in Mexico - 13 January 2009
A post with the relevant details of our trip to Querétaro, Tequisquiapan, & the Freixenet Winery will be forthcoming, but for now the behind-in-her-readings MBA student can only be bothered to post a few of the random photo highlights of our 3 day trip to the state of Querétaro….
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We are one with Street Food Vendors of Querétaro
Blog: Midwesterner in Mexico - 5 January 2009
We felt obligated to take advantage of both of us having New Year’s Day 2009 off from work, and so parlayed it into a 2-night stay in Querétaro, a town of ~1.6 million people located two hours northwest of Mexico City. Our recent string of luck continued, as we happened upon yet another holiday festival– the town [...]
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