{"id":5238,"date":"2016-02-26T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2016-09-08T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:00:26","slug":"a-down-day-in-merida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-down-day-in-merida\/","title":{"rendered":"A Down Day in M\u00e9rida"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t sleep well last night and didn’t feel well at all upon getting up. Too much booze and rich food! That’ll teach me to go on vacation! I stayed in until the early afternoon, working on my project. I was supposed to have three days like these this week so I didn’t mind at all and was rather glad that I had something productive to do.<\/p>\n

Around 2:00, I headed out with one express goal and one vague goal. The express goal was to visit the shop Uxmal de Taxco<\/a> of Miguel who just might be the best silversmith in Mexico, or at least in M\u00e9rida. I was hoping to find a replacement pendant and was delighted that the shop was so near my apartment. I really love how the streets in M\u00e9rida are numbered as it makes it really easy to get around and to know how you’re situated in relation to an address!<\/p>\n

I passed an Ontario-plated car on the way.<\/p>\n

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The shop is in the Barrio de Santa Ana, and this is the Santa Ana church in the square anchoring this neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the shop across from the square.<\/p>\n

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I don’t “know” jewelry, but I could recognise that the treasures in the shop were special. Miguel spent some time with me as I stumbled along and tried to explain what I was looking for. We came close, with him offering to convert a brooch into a pendant for me, and I almost went for it until I came to my senses and realised that I was looking for something for daily wear and would be gutted to lose something with that sort of monetary value (400CAD). But I did buy the exquisite handmade brooch and will keep in mind the option of having it converted at a later date. I really don’t buy a lot of jewelry, but I had actually been looking for something like this to secure one of my cardigans, as well as my scarves. So while it was more than I expected to spend on such an item, it wasn’t an impulse buy at all.<\/p>\n

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I then headed down to the Plaza Grande (main square) not to be confused with the Gran Plaza (shopping mall) to ask a question at the tourist info kiosk. I thought a good way to spend my last day in M\u00e9rida would be to take a guided bus tour of the city. I was sent back up to Calle 55 between 60 and 62 to a tour operator that does 1h45 minute bilingual tours of the most popular sites in M\u00e9rida. I thought of taking the 4PM one, but still didn’t feel well and just wanted to get home. So I booked for 10AM tomorrow.<\/p>\n

One day left in M\u00e9rida. Where did the week go?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t sleep well last night and didn’t feel well at all upon getting up. Too much booze and rich food! That’ll teach me to go on vacation! I stayed in until the early afternoon, working on my project. I was supposed to have three days like these this week so I didn’t mind at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895,14,635,11,3,894],"tags":[796,45,792],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-personal","category-travel","category-yucatan","tag-city-tours","tag-moving-to-mexico","tag-religious-sitescemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","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=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}