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by ZihuaRob 
, Zihuatanejo, México, Friday, March 25, 2016, 10:17 (3886 days ago)
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!
![[image]](http://www.zihuatanejo.net/images/temp/2016-03-03-morning-lamadera-pelicans.jpg)
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by JeffMN , Minneapolis MN USA, Friday, March 25, 2016, 11:27 (3886 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
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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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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by JeffMN , Minneapolis MN USA, Friday, March 25, 2016, 13:56 (3886 days ago) @ OlsenMN
Glad to hear that I'm wrong!
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by Choyera13 , Friday, March 25, 2016, 14:43 (3886 days ago) @ JeffMN
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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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.
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.
Codo
by Canadian Rainbirds , Victoria BC and Zihuatanejo, Friday, March 25, 2016, 20:34 (3886 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Thanks for adding to our vocabulary! Verbal and gestural!
