Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board - Codo

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Canadian Rainbirds — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 02:34:45 +0000

Thanks for adding to our vocabulary! Verbal and gestural!

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ZihuaRob — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:48:30 +0000

Last night we asked a friend who sells trinkets along the Paseo del Pescador how business was, and she replied with that gesture of cupping her elbow. We think she misses the cruise ships.

The word for tightwad in Spanish is also the word for elbow: codo.

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HolyMole — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 20:48:33 +0000

I've heard that most of the Mexican visitors spend very little on restaurants & taxis -- is that right?

You have heard wrong my friend. All week long there have been lines at every restaurant downtown for breakfast. The beach restaurants are packed late afternoons with everyone eating big platters of fish, and the cenadurias are packed late night.

Last night we asked a friend who sells trinkets along the Paseo del Pescador how business was, and she replied with that gesture of cupping her elbow. We think she misses the cruise ships.

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Choyera13 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 20:43:13 +0000

Guanajuato is SUPER packed right now. Can't even get into a restaurant. I have to admit I never look forward to Semana Santa.

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JeffMN — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:56:25 +0000

Glad to hear that I'm wrong!

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OlsenMN — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 18:41:44 +0000

I've heard that most of the Mexican visitors spend very little on restaurants & taxis -- is that right?

You have heard wrong my friend. All week long there have been lines at every restaurant downtown for breakfast. The beach restaurants are packed late afternoons with everyone eating big platters of fish, and the cenadurias are packed late night.

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JeffMN — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:27:53 +0000

We're happy for whatever benefit there is to the local economy. Obviously, all these folks have to stay somewhere, so that's good, but I've heard that most of the Mexican visitors spend very little on restaurants & taxis -- is that right?

Nonetheless, we're looking forward to one more day of tranquility before, sadly, we have to head back to our arguably-too-tranquil real world.

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ZihuaRob — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:17:03 +0000

While Zihuatanejo is currently saturated with carloads and busloads and airplane loads of families for Semana Santa, the crowded streets and beaches can be a little intimidating for some folks. So here's a photo from three weeks ago on a normal weekday morning. Hopefully it'll help soothe anxieties and make the wait easier until things get back to "normal". Whatever "normal" may be in a tropical resort paradise on the sunny southern coast of Mexico.

Be a pelican!