Forts and walled cities and cannons and swords and swashbucklers and pirate ships and treasures… Put it together with beautiful buildings and street cafes and good food and fireworks and romance and warm evenings… I can’t wait to go back and be part of the movie! But I can’t imagine what it was really like …

And romantic it was! Campeche is a city of a quarter million people on the Southwest coast of the Yucatan. Founded in 1540, it was later walled in to protect it from pirates. Much of the central portion still has the wall in place. We spent four days there and loved it. The city is …