12 View from our window. Somebody creative lives on the other side of the street.
13 View from our window towards the main square
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16 French bakery in Campeche.
17 Croissants were really good and the place was very cozy and designed with taste. The owner was very nice and personable. Fotunatelly when we came the place was empty, becuase dealing with more one order at a time turned out to be a challenge. When we asked for milk for our coffee, she took one cup at a time, walked with it to the fridge, and added milk. I really hope she can get that detail down a make this great place a success.
18 The market in Campeche
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23 We never figured out what is the difference between the yellow birds and the white birds.
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30 Campeche Malecón
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34 We walked on the malecón when I decided to look for a bathroom at a shopping center across the main road. Just like any mall in presperous parts of the US.
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37 Seafood restaurants at the end of the Malecón. Return visit not necessary. We ended up stopping for lunch in a restaurant full of red shirt wearing members of the PRI who were definitively getting preferential treatment.
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60 Bastion. This is the restaurant on the main square where we had all our dinners in Campeche.
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62 Zókalo in the daylight. Not quite the same.
63 Larry was fascinated by electrical safety standards (mostly the lack of)
64 The morning before we left for Mérida. Malacón at a low tide. Early morning, already very hot.
65 The old walls built to protect the city from pirates.
66 The French caffee place wasn't open at 8, 9 or 10, so we finally gave up and stopped in the mall for Starbucks breakfast on the way out of the town. After drinking Mexican coffee for couple weeks, this one drink kept me hyper for the rest of the day.
67 This is one of a line of plastic blooming trees. Families were taking pictures with them.
