Hello,

I am planning a trip to San Miguel de Allende for my daughter and myself. We are planning to study Spanish for two weeks and will be staying in an apartment. I am now trying to figure out how long to stay. Three weeks is sounding good at this point.

I am hoping to figure out what the rhythm of our days will be like when we are not in school to determine how long to stay. Any suggestions of what to do with our days? Places that are fun for a child of ten? What is the main food market like? Is there a nice play ground? Any suggestions would be welcome.

Also, I am headed to the bookstore this morning- what is the best guide book for San Miguel?

Thank You!
Gem

Hola Gem,
I would check www.portalsanmiguel.com
www.fallinginlovewithsanmiguel.com FAQs
www.atencionsanmiguel.org
Books: The Best of San Miguel by Joseph Harmes and The Insider's Guide to SM by Archie Dean.
www.buy.com has mostly best book prices; free shipping >$25. and no sales taxes.
Parque Juarez has good areas for children.
The covered mercados at San Juan de Dios (west of El Jardin) and Ignacio Ramirez just NE are good and there are many carnicerias, etc. near the latter. The Mercado Artisanias is adjacent as well.
Check the www.tripadvisor.com forum for San Miguel for lots of opinions.
M

Thank you, Mikemo.

The books seemed hard to track down but I did find a copy of the Insider's Guide and ordered it. I had already been researching two of the websites that you suggested (I found your reference to them on another post) and am re-researching them.

I have been working on our dates and trying to figure out how long to stay. I think that we will arrive on a Friday. Take the walking tour on Saturday and start our classes on Monday. That would put us at the end of two weeks on a Friday. I was thinking that maybe we should go some where for a night or two to give ourselves the chance to experience something else. Guanajuato seems like an easy choice since it is closer to the airport. Would that be a fun thing to do? Worthy of packing and unpacking? Is there somewhere else that would be amazing and not too difficult to get to?

Thank you for your help. I really, really appreciate your expertise and taking the time to answer my many questions.

Very Best,
Gem

San Miguel is magical. No amount of time is too long

The walking tour is MWF.
www.patronatoproninos.org
Colonial Guanajuato and Queretaro are def worth visiting.
M (de el pueblo magico)

Thank You! Thank You!

Gem,

Keep up the questions this is sounding like a great trip! I'll keep peeking in to find out more about it.

Suzie