I do love Christmas in Zihua (and I am an atheist who does not celebrate Christmas at all other than a good meal: Catalina was fabulous a few years back; alas Coconuts went for turkey etc and a huge table of 'mericans insisted on bellowing along to the two entertainers' version of "Sweet Caroline" -- ba ba baaaa. Don't those people learn not to sing at the dinner table in a restaurant? ) Pinata (sorry, no accent) Alley is fabulous.

Of course Semana Santa is my favourite time of year there as it often coincides with my birthday. Like this year.

Must be heck of change from Banff!

Oddly, our city government seem to completely ignore or not care about the fact that the Sociedad Protectora de Animales de Zihuatanejo (SPAZ) is located on our main plaza where they plan to launch fireworks from again this year. Really cruel for the animals to have to suffer so much.

Bummer. Oh well, I won't be able to head into Ixtapa unfortunately so I'll just consider New Years a night off and enjoy the festivities.

Oh, we'll have them in Zihuatanejo and I'm sure they'll look fantastic from any hillside vantage point, but being pet owners either someone in our family has to stay home to look after them or we take our chihuahua with us and let the cats fend for themselves, but we always seem to lose one or two, at least for a few days until their nerves calm down. It's a real bummer for the pets.

Playa Palmar at midnight on New years eve. Spectacular!

I agree. Playa El Palmar offers numerous fireworks. If you are up high enough you can see them as far away as the Club Med and even Pantla. In Zihuatanejo it's simply a scare-fest for animals and I haven't even bothered watching for over a decade. I was at the Catalina one year for New Years with the family when the city fireworks caught one of their building's palapas on fire.