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Just to make this hostel we have checked in to even better...there is a lady selling cakes from a table right at the entrance!! Everything, literally everything is right on our doorstep here. We choose wisely and go for two little cinnamon rolls costing the whole 6 peso each, they were good but could've eaten about 50, save the bigger cakes for tomorrow.
The Puebla main square is just down the road from us which has made things really easy, just a 2 minute walk past restaurants, street sellers, taco vendors, cake shops (they love the cake in Puebla) and a tiny bright yellow church. The square itself is really lively all the time, with a cathedral centre piece with street musicians and posh restaurants; surrounding it is a really vibrant and lively. We felt completely safe in Puebla.
Our consumption of tacos seems to be forever on-going, being that we have no idea what anything else is on the menu! I decided to make a little list of conversions which we can refer too when checking out a menu but really we look like numpties doing it but it helps a bit. Oh!!! and I actually managed to string a Spanish sentence together, I practised a few on the bus and I got the chance to chuck one in! and boy, was I proud of myself too! Admittedly my sentence was asking if they spoke in English, but they understood and answered me :)
Our hostel has been brilliant with kind, helpful staff and the free breakfast was pretty good too! We could have whatever we fancied from toast, papaya, cereal and a tea or coffee and fresh orange juice. It seems in Mexico that a Friday night is a bit of a knees up, get to together night, the family who run the hostel -and there are a fair few of them- had their 'knees up' right in the courtyard outside our door which made it hard to sleep, but it looked good. They sat there for hours and hours round a large table with tonnes of their traditional Mexican food, drinks and they had a guy who sang and played the guitar, serenading them the whole evening. Living here looks pretty chilled out, we've loved Puebla.
Its time for us to crack on, Oaxaca is calling. A bit further this time, Oaxaca is roughly a 4.5 hour drive on the ADO bus, again, heading East. We needed to get back to the bus station so we gave Uber taxi service ago today after our rip off experience and they were... AMAZING! So efficient, we need them in the UK. As soon as you book the taxi you are told the drivers name Alexandro, plate number and time on arrival. He was early, lifted our bags in, went directly there and wouldn't even except our tip!!! SHOCKED! Also had a very broken conversation about Man United, he was nice, wish all the taxi drivers were like Alexandro. 5/5 stars!!
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