Thursday, November 11, 2010

Puerto Vallarta’s Calle Zaragoza

After several days of doing amazing things, eating unbelievable food and drinking in the round-the-clock action in Puerto Vallarta, the morning may dawn when you feel like you need something real. There is a neighborhood, probably a short walk from your Mexico vacation villa rental, that may be just the thing to bring a bit of sanity back to your holiday.
The Zaragoza neighborhood is genuine, home-town
Puerto Vallarta. Families live there, real families with dogs and kids and roosters. People spend long evenings outdoors on their patios and balconies enjoying the cool night air and the congenial atmosphere (very much as you do at your Mexico vacation villa rental).
The area is a bit different today than it was, say, in the 1960s, when Elizabeth Taylor lived there. Yes, this is Gringo Gulch, so named for the fashionable crowds from north of the border who built stylish homes on the cobblestoned Calle Zaragoza. Many of them were designed by the same person who created sets for the film, Night of the Iguana.
The light comes on . . . Night of the Iguana featured the actor Richard Burton who fell in love with the actress Elizabeth Taylor and bought for her the Casa Kimberly on . . . Calle Zaragoza. It’s a small world, isn’t it?

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