Why Choose Casa Quetzal Hotel? We’ve been asking our guests why they choose Casa Quetzal.   These are some of their answers, and then, some of our own. “Staying at Casa Quetzal was like living in a garden.” “The breakfasts are wonderful and the staff is so great.” “The location was great, only a few [...]

San Miguel de Allende gets a LOT of press – here is a smattering of articles for you to read. Finally finally someone is starting to print something closer to the truth:  USA Today . . . Mexico’s Violence Not Widespread ” Official statistics show disconnectione between reality and perception.”  Read on . . . [...]

San Miguel de Allende and weddings are not the first thing you think of when you begin start planning a destination wedding, but in fact, the little town makes a spectacular place to tie the knot. What at one point was about to become a ghost town has matured into a city rich with art [...]

Semana Santa  – A Time of Visual Splendor. This year – 2011 – Easter falls in late April, so you still have time to book your trip to San Miguel de Allende, where Easter Week -  Semana Santa – is truly a time to experience Faith made Visual.  Witness the color and pageantry, the intriguing [...]

USA: per capita Murders 16,204 [2nd of 49] Mexico: per capita Murders 13,144 [3rd of 49] Total crimes (per capita) by country # 8 USA: 80.0645 per 1,000 …# 39 Mexico: 12.8406 per 1,000 people USA: Murders with firearms 9,369 [1st of 36] Mexico: Murders with firearms 2,606 [3rd of 36] . . . thought [...]

ALMOST EVERYDAY IS A FIESTA IN SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE. You can not pick a bad time to visit because there will Always be something Special going on!  (And these are just the most famous of events!) Here are some Holidays that occur on or around the same date Every Year: JANUARY 1.  NEW YEAR’S [...]

If you were born to shop, San Miguel is the place for you to visit! And I am just the person to take you around and show you all the goodies that are to be found here.  From jewelry to furniture, to crafts, pottery and clothing, San Miguel is a paradise of beautiful merchandise and [...]

Another of  Charles’ dear friends is Miss Christine (no longer a Miss tho – she married Mario a couple of years ago now.)  One evening she showed up at my door, unannounced.  This is also unusual.  When i let her in, she quickly told me that we had an “emergency.”  We had to do something [...]

AARP says Mexico is the #1 place to retire on the globe! This is not news to those of us who have already moved here, and many more Baby Boomers will figure out that their retirement dollars will go a lot further just a little bit south of the border. Where we live, here in [...]

Been DIGGING and STUMBLING and FaceBooking , etc etc, finding good articles about the truth of Mexico’s safety and how fine is San Miguel de Allende specifically : This is a NEW site about some of San Miguel’s many Artists  and Artisans- a place to see and purchase their work. http://artauctionsanmiguel.com/ Right now, on this [...]