Tagged With "Mercado Benito Juarez"

Love me a good market! I would have loved wandering those aisles with you -- sampling as we go.

Escaping from winter in Mexico, PortMoresby finds yet another market and realizes no two are ever the same.

PortMoresby finds figs and goat cheese at a weekly market in the heart of her favorite Mexican city.

DrFumblefinger visits the Central Market in the Costa Rican capital. It's a large market, covering a square block, with lots of things to buy.

  I believe I mentioned, or alluded to, the fact that roaming the earth alone has lost its glow. If there’s an English language library in a foreign place, it’s a magnet for me, just to visit and admire, if not to officially...

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  A great number of things in Mexico are named for the country’s most beloved historical leader, Benito Juarez, born in a Zapotec village in the State of Oaxaca.  It’s fitting, then, that the original market in the city is named...

  Oaxaca de Juarez is a beautiful city, no question, but what impressed me most were the people I met, Mexican and expat, in all walks of life.  I’ve never visited a place where the warmth and kindness of the residents stood out as it...

  Street Food   While I didn’t partake this trip, vendors selling food from carts on street corners definitely have a following.  Sitting down at a table seems easier to me but if I return to Oaxaca I plan to seek out adventures...

  A tip of the Gumbo hat to all the guessers who took a shot at this puzzle, and for all the clues you used for your interesting guesses...but Lynn Millar takes the laurels this time, identifying the scene in Mexico City's very central park, the...

Pol Gomà Deàs shares many useful tips and suggestions for visitors to Mexico City

During the months of preparation for my trip to Oaxaca, I wrote " It remains to be seen if archeological sites are in my future but, as an activity of which I've never partaken, I really should give it a go."

Not just any market, Mercado de Abastos on a Saturday morning, numbers swelled by sellers and buyers from the countryside, is said to be the largest in Mexico. Intimidated, PortMoresby reports on a Tuesday.

WWII concentration camp to become a luxury resort.

DrFumblefinger shares some views of Milan's busy Central train station, an example of "Fascist Architecture".

Great market! Did you try any of that cream cheese by any chance?

No, I didn't try that one. I don't believe it's cream cheese, but another form of queso fresco, a fresh un-aged cheese (like the one at top here ) that's used a lot for toppings and that I do buy there. More body and flavor than cream cheese.

DrFumblefinger loves visiting markets. Today he shares a recent visit to the Municipal market in the beach town of Nazare, on the Atlantic coast.

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Marilyn finds a great place for a three-generation family cruise

Market hall at Frankfurt's Terminal 3, now under construction.   There seems to be a wave of airport building and airport expansion across the globe these days.

A short off-season stay in Rhodes Old Town gave PHeymont a chance to visit several layers of history.