Author Archives: Rogelio
Agnes Olive
Originally from Canada, Agnes Olive is one of many gifted artists living and working in San Miguel. She has spent many years putting together some extraordinary pieces constructed mainly from found objects, forming them into sculptural works featuring powerfully-featured mystical … Continue reading
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More Mojigangas
A new crop of Mojigangas have appeared this year in San Miguel, this one wandering the Jardin in San Miguel on the Constitution Day weekend holiday.
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Street Food
Most gringos avoid street food like the plague, in our opinion it is most often the best meal you can get in San Miguel, and at a very reasonable price. Every evening this group sets up a table at the … Continue reading
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Hole in the Wall
San Miguel is full of holes-in-the-walls, selling anything from Gorditas to underwear. This another kind of hole-in-the-wall, as always, painted rather than repaired.
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Castillo
Fireworks are a constant feature of Mexican life (there are some banging away overhead as I write), and the pieces de resistance are always the Castillos, giant towers thirty or so meters high, covered with spinning wheels and crowned with … Continue reading
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Winter Colors
It’s time to pack up and head south again. We were hit by our first spell of snow and below-freezing temperatures in New York this week, not that that seems to slow down New Yorkers any and not nearly as … Continue reading
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Fall Colors
Taken from the Wallkill Valley Railroad Bridge, the hillside houses of Rosendale, an old cement mining town on the southern fringe of the Catskills, are still partly hidden by the fall leaves.
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World’s Number One Best City?
Today, CNN Travel announced the results of Condé Nast Traveler’s 26th annual Readers’ Choice Awards World’s Number One City poll. And guess who is number one. Yes, ahead of Florence (No 3), Vienna (7), Rome (No 8), Paris (No 22) and Venice … Continue reading
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They Have a Plan
There are always hundreds of street dogs in San Miguel quietly and politely making their way around town obviously with an important plan in mind. During parades, as here with the blessing of the horses as part of the Festival … Continue reading
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All Night Long
We are so used to fireworks in San Miguel that we can usually sleep through them, but at the Feast of San Miguel at the end of September each year they go on all night, climaxing in this show at … Continue reading
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