The next morning as we left we had the GPS on (hoping it would work out what we were doing) but were going with the Google directions (so many new roads in Mexico our GPS can't keep up!) and after a really short detour we finally got on the road we wanted.
The highlight of the trip for Dylan was the hotel pool. I think he now thinks that whenever we go away for the weekend there will be a pool. Hopefully he will not be too disappointed when he finds out this is not the case.
Queretaro is about two and a half hours drive from Mexico City (it was longer on the return trip). It is a really pretty colonial city with lots of squares with fountains and beautiful old buildings. Dylan liked to zoom his car or tractor around the edge of the fountains.
We got to Queretaro just in time for the start of lunch. We were the first people in the restaurant I chose, people were really starting to arrive as we were leaving (about an hour later). I was a little skeptical about my choice initially, the decor was pretty loud (and I found it in the guidebook), but the food was really good. After lunch we had a wander around part of the center of the city before heading back to the hotel for a swim and a nap.
The plaza de la constitution was packed with people on Saturday night for a rock concert. It made for interesting viewing while we waited for our Trolley Bus. The trolley bus tour was narrated in Spanish but it got us out to the Aqueduct and back to town without us having to navigate the one way streets ourselves. We enjoyed dinner at a restaurant on a smaller quieter square. We spent Sunday morning wandering around the streets before joining the crowd at a restaurant on Plaza de la Independencia for brunch. After brunch we wandered through the market stalls looking at the arts and crafts before hitting the road and heading back to the D.F.
~Walking into the City center from our hotel.
~Plaza de la Independencia. You could smell the lavender in the air in this square. It was amazing.
~The aqueduct
No comments:
Post a Comment