Posted in Veracruz City on February 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Once it started to cool off, I took the bus downtown to the city center with Debbie and Lisa. Lisa wanted to do some souvenir shopping, since she’s leaving tomorrow. We ended up at the enormous Mercado (market) Hidalgo in El Centro.
Inside there are booths where everything you can imagine is for sale: clothing, [...]
Posted in Veracruz City on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The fort’s crenelated walls can be easily seen in this view from the malecon
Built on a tiny islet in the 15th century, it was first a storehouse to hold the treasure of the New World until it was shipped to Spain. It had to be fortified to ward off pirate attacks. Later it became a [...]
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After several hours of work on past tenses, all of the students (I think there are maybe eight or ten of us) went with several teachers on a field trip to Fort San Juan de Ulua. The fort was built in the 17th century as a storehouse for the treasure from the New World which [...]
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