Mazatlan Mexico

About 4 miles north of downtown lies the Sábalo traffic circle in the Zona Dorada (Gold Zone) near the Punta Camarón, a rocky outcropping over the water. The Zona Dorada begins where Avenida del Mar intersects avenida Rafael Buelna and becomes avenida Camarón Sábalo, which leads north through the abundant hotels and fast-food restaurants of the tourist zone. From here, the resort hotels, including the huge El Cid Resort complex, spread northward along and beyond Playa Sábalo. The new Marina Mazatlán development has changed the landscape north of the Zona Dorada considerably, as hotels, condo complexes, and private residences rise around the new marina. North of here is Los Cerritos (Little Hills), the northern limit of Mazatlán.




A pulmonia is a taxi that looks like a souped-up golf cart. Hundreds of these roam the streets. They are very popular among locals. 
Tell the driver what are you interested in seeing or simply tell him to drive you around and get familiar with Mazatlan. You can have a Pacifico or Corona beer if you want. 
The name Pulmonía (pneumonia) comes from the idea of old residents that riding an open air car can give you a cold !!

Viejo Mazatlán, or Old Mazatlán, lies at the southern end of the 15-mile Mazatlán peninsula. The Plaza de la Repubica is the central city plaza, and sits in the center of the historic district. Nineteenth century mansions can still be found here, together with the upscale shops and restaurants of Plazuela Machado, the restored opera house, Teatro Angela Peralta, and the twin-spired cathedral, Basilica de la Purisima Concepcion. Across the street from the cathedral is the popular Panamá Restaurant and Pasteleria, home of the best pastries in Mazatlán.

Two blocks north of the cathedral is the Pino Suárez market, the sprawling central market that covers a full city block. The bustling Pino Suárez market is the real heart of old town Mazatlán, a 110-year-old "super" market that is as colorful as it is functional. From the northeast corner of the Pino Suarez market, the shrimp ladies can be found just five blocks north on Aquiles Serdan.

New (to me) Blogs This Week

Travel Quest

The Simple Things - Fishing

I'm linking up at The Simple Things today.

We were in Mazatlan the other day and watched the fishermen along the Malecon. 

This fisherman convinced DH to let the birds grab a piece of fish from a stick.

However on another try the bird dropped the raw fish onto DH's shoulder and DH was less than pleased to have raw fish all over his new LV t-shirt!

Menu Plan Update - Week 8

Sunday - Last day in Las Vegas. Packing and afternoon on Strip
Lunch - wings and fries Blondies Planet Hollywood
Dinner - TGIF steak - we had our first meal here when we moved into the condo and have enjoyed almost weekly dinners since December 16 so it seemed fitting to have a last meal here.

Monday - we leave early morning for LA and spend the evening at the airport Hilton
Lunch - Jack in the Box burger - mediocre but we were in bumper to bumper traffic from Vegas to LA. The trip took six hours instead of four.
Dinner - LAX Hilton. Tuna salad and curry chicken.


Tuesday - we fly to Mazatalan
Lunch - aboard Alaska Air, we shared a delicious cheese platter with fruit.
Dinner - Torres Mazatlan restaurant. Shrimps in garlic butter with rice and vegetables.

Will update once we arrive

Wednesday - took the bus ($1 each) to the grocery store Soriana and a cab back ($10)
Lunch - La Palapa restaurant at Torres Mazatlan. Salads
Dinner - rotisserie chicken and salad 

Thursday - lazy day 
Lunch - chicken sandwiches on crossiants
Dinner - beef patties, gravy, potatoes and corn.

Friday - downtown Mazatlan by bus - market and photos
Lunch - calamari and shrimps at The Shrimp Bucket
Dinner - cheese and crackers

Saturday - pool time
 Lunch - club sandwich from Palapa restaurant by the pool - Palapa on the left below.
Dinner - a take on cabbage and sausage stew with chicken. I have homemade stock from Wednesday's chicken. No diced tomatoes available in condo shop so will use just tomato paste.

Weekend Cooking

February 2013 - Mazatlan Mexico

We are in Mazatlan Mexico this week. Yesterday we took the bus into town, 10 pesos or just under $1 per person. Not sure where we wanted to get off, we got off at the market, mercado.

Mazatlan has twenty miles of ocean stocked full with lots of fresh seafood ready for catching, especially shrimp and oysters.

Las Changueras are iconic, mostly female street vendors in Mazatlán, Mexico, renowned for selling fresh shrimp from barrels in a dedicated area of the city. Located primarily near the Pino Suárez market, they are integral to the city's identity as the "shrimp capital of the world," offering fresh,, head-on shrimp that can be cooked by nearby restaurants. 

The term changueras refers specifically to these shrimp traders who have operated in the city for decades, often in a male-dominated, patriarchal fishery industry.

Many travel daily, starting work at 4:00 AM, working long hours, and navigating intense competition while dealing with challenges like lack of government support, as reported in studies highlighted in.

We wanted to see the shrimp ladies or changueras. We lucked out and happened to turn down Aquiles Serdán and saw the ladies lining the street under colourful umbrellas. Plastic tubs are filled with brown shrimp, blue shrimp, white shrimp, fresh water, deep-ocean and farmed shrimp piled high upon floating ice. We didn't spend a long time there yesterday, but will be making a longer visit which will include lunch during the week and I'll provide an update next week.

Sepia Saturday

I'm posting at Sepia Saturday today.
This week's challenge is:
165 23 February 2013 : The photograph is called Group Portrait Of An Unknown Family. We all have some unknowns in our collections and this is their special week.

I know that the man on the right (in lighter gray suit) is my paternal grandfather Thomas. I don't know who is standing beside him, but I am guessing it might be his brother as there is a strong resemblance to my Uncle Tommy named after his father, my grandfather. 

I wish I knew where this was taken in Dublin.

Both my grandfathers were named Thomas.

I will have to take the time to restore this photo some day.

Here is my Uncle Tommy as a boy he is on the left. I don't know who is on the right so two photos with unknowns!.

Claremore OK

Claremore OK is considered the home of Will Rogers. Known as Oklahoma's favourite son, the turnpike is named after him.

Rogers was born nearby in a rough log cabin "halfway between Claremore and Oologah on November 4, 1879. He rose from a vaudeville career as a sideshow rope‑tricks artist to become one of the most popular humorists in America.

The New York Times syndicated his weekly newspaper column from 1922-35. Going daily in 1926 his short "Will Rogers Says" reached forty million newspaper readers. He wrote frequently for the mass-circulation upscale magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, where Rogers advised Americans to embrace the frontier values of neighborliness and democracy on the domestic front while remaining clear of foreign entanglements.

Will says "all I know is what I read in the papers".

Rogers was famous for his saying "I never met a man I didn't like".

Rogers even provided an epigram on his most famous epigram:

When I die, my epitaph, or whatever you call those signs on gravestones, is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident [sic] like." I am so proud of that, I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved.


The Will Rogers Hotel was built in 1929 during a period when the discovery of ‘Radium Water’ created a health craze putting several new hotels and ‘health spas’ in the City of Claremore. It is now a senior citizens' home.

All photographs are my property unless otherwise stated.

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I am in transit today so I scheduled my post ahead of time on a book I read a week ago.

My selection this week is from The Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill.

Her bedroom curtains were always left slightly open and she could see lights in the windows of the two houses opposite. People would be awake tonight up making tea, checking windows, hoping there were no slipped tiles on the roof.

Dreaming of France

The rules for this meme are: Please join this weekly meme. Grab a copy of the photo above and link back to An Accidental Blog. Share with the rest of us your passion for France. Did you read a good book set in France? See a movie? Take a photo in France? Have an adventure? Eat a fabulous meal or even just a pastry? Or if you're in France now, go ahead and lord it over the rest of us. We can take it.
Maybe we can all satisfy our yearnings for France, until we get there again.


These were taken in the town of Les Andelys August 2012. We were on a Seine river cruise aboard the MS Avalon Creativity. We had docked and we chose to wander into town on our own with our friends.
This was the view from our cabin window.

The town of Les Andelys lies in a tight bend of the Seine. The valley has been shaped by the river, forming white cliffs. A walk on the riverside offers beautiful views on the ruined castle Chateau-Gaillard, the old houses of Petit-Andely and the Seine valley.

Meal Plan Update - Week 7

We didn't manage a new recipe for this week since it is our last week in the LV condo and we are out and about as well as we need to finish as much of our perishables as possible.

Sunday - relax at "home" and had a great breakfast of grapefruit, juice, bacon, eggs, tomato, potato cakes and mushrooms
Lunch - each to his own
Dinner - Spanish stewed chicken thighs with carrots and turnip added to stew, served with steamed lemon broccoli, pickled beets (homemade) and crusty cheddar cheese bread.


Monday - staying at TI and going to show at Harrah's
Lunch - leftovers
Dinner - appetizers at TI

Tuesday - Donny and Marie Show at Flamingo
Lunch - leftovers
Dinner - leftover chicken stew with broccoli

Wednesday - DH golfing
Lunch -  
Dinner - hamburger stew  with carrots and brussels sprouts and cheesy mashed potatoes.  

Thursday - VALENTINE'S DAY Visit wedding chapels along Old Las Vegas
Lunch - tacos and quesadillas at Mickie Finnz
Dinner - crab legs and lobster tails with salad crusty bread.

Friday - DH Golfing
Lunch -fried mushrooms
Dinner - Fremont St Heart Attack Grill we decided we really didn't need to eat here as it is fast greasy food. We decided to finish the stew and pickled beets with crusty bread.

Saturday - Fremont St
Lunch - burgers at 5 Guys - the worst I've had at that chain
Dinner - fajitas Luna Rossa rigatoni a funghi and spaghetti and meatballs with caesar salad.

Weekend Cooking

Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, quotations, photographs. If your post is even vaguely foodie, feel free to grab the button and link up anytime over the weekend.You do not have to post on the weekend. Please link to your specific post, not your blog's home page.

May 2009 - Beijing China
When we arrived in Beijing after our long flight we were so excited that we headed to Wangfujing St which is a huge shopping area for pedestrians. You name it and you could find it there!

After having a beer we headed to the Night Market for some dinner sampling.

Wow lots of scorpions, sea horses, star fish, snails etc on sticks. We had donuts (delicious) deep fried cabbage rolls and noodles. Back to the hotel to relax and hit bed around 11PM having been up for 30 hours (not a record)!

NY NY

We stayed at New York, New York Hotel and Casino in January 2013 and enjoy the ambiance, the feeling of being in New York.