Here are a few shots of our neighborhood, on our way to the kids' school. They are going to school five days a week, arriving at 7:50, and getting picked up at 1:50, en punto!
There is a little bit of everything in our neighborhood: very very simple homes, empty lots, unfinished homes, very nice small finished homes with yards, and a few large, multi-story homes and hotels.
We live outside of the 'center of the action' in Puerto Escondido (which is just fine with us!). PE is, among other things, a Mexican surf town. The center of all that activity, however, is due east of us 10 minutes in a cab. This area has a considerable number of gringos, nightlife, and I am sure that things are more expensive.
We live above some much quieter beaches, and not far from the more traditional center of town that includes a very few restaurants, but lots of tiny shops selling clothes, balls, paper, shoes, whatever. We don't really see many gringos in our part of town.
In the center of all this is a "mercado", a building the size of a city block, housing scores of small stands - fruit, vegetables, meats, breads, etc. We shop here and we ate in this neighborhood last night. Restaurants are very rare. This one had a 6 ft x 10 ft. kitchen. The eating area was open-air and dirt floor. The stove was a 2 ft in diameter heated surface outside of the kitchen. We all ate and drank our fill for about $15. Eating out is kind of a special occasion. Mostly we cook for ourselves in our rental.
The photos that follow are part of the neighborhood adjacent to this local business district. Mostly (but not all) simple homes, lots of flowers, fruiting trees, like mangoes and coconuts, empty lots, iguanas, noisy and colorful birds, and vw bugs - the people's car…
There is a little bit of everything in our neighborhood: very very simple homes, empty lots, unfinished homes, very nice small finished homes with yards, and a few large, multi-story homes and hotels.
We live outside of the 'center of the action' in Puerto Escondido (which is just fine with us!). PE is, among other things, a Mexican surf town. The center of all that activity, however, is due east of us 10 minutes in a cab. This area has a considerable number of gringos, nightlife, and I am sure that things are more expensive.
We live above some much quieter beaches, and not far from the more traditional center of town that includes a very few restaurants, but lots of tiny shops selling clothes, balls, paper, shoes, whatever. We don't really see many gringos in our part of town.
In the center of all this is a "mercado", a building the size of a city block, housing scores of small stands - fruit, vegetables, meats, breads, etc. We shop here and we ate in this neighborhood last night. Restaurants are very rare. This one had a 6 ft x 10 ft. kitchen. The eating area was open-air and dirt floor. The stove was a 2 ft in diameter heated surface outside of the kitchen. We all ate and drank our fill for about $15. Eating out is kind of a special occasion. Mostly we cook for ourselves in our rental.
The photos that follow are part of the neighborhood adjacent to this local business district. Mostly (but not all) simple homes, lots of flowers, fruiting trees, like mangoes and coconuts, empty lots, iguanas, noisy and colorful birds, and vw bugs - the people's car…
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The volkswagons are everywhere, carrying families, tools, surfboards, whatever.
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| Overgrown empty lots bump up against homes and yards everywhere. |
The following shots: a coconut tree - they are everywhere, and a just a few of the
bougainvilleas. They are also everywhere, and come in many colors: white, yellow, pink, red, purple.
This is the view out of our backyard - a sprawling dirt lot.
Super fun to see your 'hood! Are you all learning to surf? Send some beach shots--so fun to vicariously experience this. Miss you guys!
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