Weekend Roundup

Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

ABC Wednesday

1. Starts with "R"
2. A Favorite
3. RED

Starts with R

ROCKING chair - Concordia Mexico

FAVOURITE


Royal Canadian Mountie dressed in red with our red and white flag.

RED

Costumes available for rent for photo ops in Madird's Parque Retiro.

She Sells Cells Fish and Chips

Six Word Saturday

December 2018 - Concordia Mexico

Or chips and chips side by side?

2014 Mexico

We spent 10 weeks in Mexico using Mazatlan as our base. We went to Concordia, El Quelite, Durango.

JANUARY

We started 2014 in Mazatlan Mexico with friends. 

 SHRIMPS!

FEBRUARY

We were lucky to stay there until the end of February.

So we enjoyed Super Bowl - Mexican style.

Valentine's Day

Art Walks - January and February

Sightseeing with blogger friends.

Hobnobbing with local politician.

Helping the local bricklayers in El Quelite.

Festival in Concordia

Mazatlan

Durango

Carnevale

And it wouldn't be Mazatlan without its wonderful sunsets!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday - Jan 26

I'm joining the Scavenger Hunt Sunday sponsored by Ashley.

The rules are simple:

1. Anyone can participate.
2. You’re encouraged to take five new photos this week for the challenge. Creativity is also encouraged!
3. If you get stumped, you may use one photo from your archive (although I’m not too strict about it – I do my best to take fresh shots).
4. Link up here on Sunday (or Tuesday at the latest) – you can use the button above.
5. Leave comments for at least five entries around yours (with so many new participants each week, it’s the only way I know to be inclusive
6. Have fun

1. Ribbon
2. Writing or Letters
3. Notice
4. Silhouette
5. On Water

January 2014 - Mazatlan Mexico

RIBBON - lovely young child in the small town of El Quemado which I wrote about here

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WRITING OR LETTERS - taken in small town or pueblo Malpica.

NOTICE - parking instructions at the marina.

SILHOUETTE - I had some other ideas but as I was having breakfast on Tuesday this mourning dove appeared and was strutting his stuff across the railing.

ON WATER - I used this photo earlier this week for a challenge called My Reflection. This was taken by John when we stopped to visit the hot springs in Concordia.

Mazatlan - la semana pasada (Week 4)

Here's a recap of week 1 and 2.
Week 3


WEATHER
Sunday dawned as our first overcast morning but that had burned off by noon. Temperature continues in high 70s. A little more cloud cover but not much.
Rained overnight on Tuesday and brought back the sunny days.

Lots of pool time.

MAZATLAN MEANDERINGS
Marina - decided to take a pulmonia to check this out for breakfast. Glad we only came for that as it is not very interesting, other than the boats. The area is full of Canadian and American gringos who seem to hang out here near their boats.

 Market - this is where we usually get off the bus and always stop in to check out the food and clothing for sale.

Weddings - Saturday was a busy day for weddings.
Click here for more wedding photos from this week.

Plazuela Machado is very different during the day when the street is open to traffic.

At night sitting in Pedro y Lola

Gran Plaza is an amazing shopping mall.

Got my hair cut for $50 pesos, you pay and then someone comes to cut your hair.Girl with pink hair is cutting mine.

Went on a day trip to the town of Malpica and Concordia which was celebrating the feast of San Sebastian.



Malpica is a charming little town.  The Golden Years post on our visit to Malpica.

Concordia - more photos.

FOOD

Breakfast at Gus Gus at the marina.

Lunch at the Palapa prior to Sunday football.


Lunch at the Art and Soup Tour.

Lunch at Mary's - American style burgers.

Friends in for a roast chicken dinner.

Steaks with fried onions and green peppers.

After two attempts to get into restaurants and being turned away because we didn't have reservations we went back to Pedro y Lola.

Spanish spicy chicken thighs for football and also served as leftovers on Monday.

Breakfast in Malpica.

RANDOMNESS

Sunday football - Torres Mazatlan staff prepping for game.

Unusual jobs - removing the coconuts for quests' safety. This man was clearing the coconuts and the palm leaves around the resort the other day. He was bare footed and carried his machete up a rope.

Really, ladies? Can you not see the yellow tape???

Buses are always fun and the drivers seem to be allowed to decorate them with their favourite football or baseball team stickers and holy pictures. Or even out of country license plates!

Check this bus out!

Fruit and vegetable delivery

Mazatlan Life provides daily details on what's on for tourists and ex-pats.

More bathroom humour - the washrooms at the public market are upstairs and "manned" by a man. It cost $3 pesos and he will give you a small amount of toilet paper. The cubicle doesn't have a toilet seat, the door won't lock and it is smaller than a telephone booth. I leave the managing to your imagination.

MUSIC

To listen to some of the music around town click here.

This week's song is  Cucuruccu Paloma. On our first trip together to Mexico (Cancun) in 1979 we first heard this song.

SUNSET
Is getting later every day almost 6PM at the end of this week.