{"id":39958,"date":"2020-03-13T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=39958"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:58:44","slug":"thursday-morning-in-oaxaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/thursday-morning-in-oaxaca\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Morning in Oaxaca"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Post 11 of 189. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

I walked over 11KM my first day in Oaxaca, but unfortunately, I did not sleep well my first night, a combination of a horrible typical Mexican mattress and my not having slept in a bed in a full year. The awful bed was a shame because, otherwise, the room was quite dark and quiet.<\/p>\n

I had coffee and breakfast at the apartment and put in several hours of work before heading out for a ramble. I made the decision to keep Thursday and Friday very unstructured, with no museums or organized activities as I had quite a bit of work (proofreading) to do and I didn’t want to go into “vacation mode” just yet.<\/p>\n

My first stop Thursday morning was the Alcal\u00e1, Oaxaca\u2019s pedestrian street.<\/p>\n

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I thought a raspado (shaved iced) with pineapple and chamoy would be lovely, but it was sadly too sweet for my new tastebuds and I was unable to finish it (I call them new, but I’ve had them six years now…).<\/p>\n

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Temple de Santo Domingo<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oaxaca is really interesting from an architectural point of view in that sometimes, I feel like I\u2019m in Europe and other times, I feel like I\u2019m in Arizona.<\/p>\n

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These remind me of something I saw in Europe, maybe Veliko T\u0103rnovo, Bulgaria?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lots of stray dogs around time, but they mostly look well kept.<\/p>\n

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This is the famous Boulenc bakery, at which I bought my first real croissant in years.<\/p>\n

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My apartment is close enough to everything that I can go in and out. I headed home to put away the baked goods and to do more work.<\/p>\n

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Then, I set off in search of lunch by the Z\u00f3calo. On the way there, I cut across a courtyard with a lovely stone pattern.<\/p>\n

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The gate was lovely as well.<\/p>\n

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The plan had been to have my first comida corrida\/menu del dia at a more upscale restaurant on the Zocalo… but the special of the day was… Yucatecan cochinita. You can\u2019t make this stuff up! I ended up wandering around and found a more average meal, which is the subject of the next post!<\/p>\n

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(Post 11 of 189. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr!) I walked over 11KM my first day in Oaxaca, but unfortunately, I did not sleep well my first night, a combination of a horrible typical Mexican mattress and my not having slept in a bed in a full year. The awful bed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40007,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958\/revisions\/40007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}