Category Archives: OAXACA

By the time we get back from the spring, we’re starving. The problem is that even though there are some small restaurants nearby, they only take cash, and I don’t have any. We have to drive a little way before we find a place that takes credit cards. Even though the restaurant is clean and…

That evening, in the main Oaxaca square, there's a "posada". “Posada” is Spanish for shelter or inn; a lot of hotels in Mexico have a name that includes the word “posada.” But in this case, a posada is a procession that children perform to reenact Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem to be counted in…