The Stuff Movies Are Made Of!
Forts and walled cities and cannons and swords and swashbucklers and pirate ships and treasures…
Entrance to Fort San Miguel
Entrance to Fort San Jose
View from Fort San Jose
View looking out of a bastion
The courtyard inside Fort San Jose
Part of the wall around the old city of Campeche
Cannon on the wall surrounding Campeche
Look who I found next to a bastion on the old city wall!
More of the old city wall
Looking down the pedestrian mall from the old city wall
Entrance through the old city wall to the pedestrian mall
Put it together with beautiful buildings and street cafes and good food and fireworks and romance and warm evenings…
Business buildings
Buildings are often referred to as 'rainbow' buildings
More rainbow buildings
Cobblestone streets
Campeche Cathedral lit up!
Calle 59, pedestrian mall
Calle 59
Businesses & Restaurants on main square
Stunning!
Lunch at Chocol' Ha
I can’t wait to go back and be part of the movie!
But I can’t imagine what it was really like to live during colonial times when the romance was missing. The evenings were hot and Spain was trying to protect what it had stolen from the Mayans from being taken by the Brits and the French. Then there were the pirates, those not so movie like guys who only wanted to pillage the town. Cannons booming, ships sinking, and innocent people dying because the powers of that era thought conquering lands was more important than those crazy people living there that just wanted warm evenings and romance and laughter.
Like I said, I’m so glad we get to experience the movie now!
Just getting caught up with the site today - LOVING the videos and pics of Campeche. You guys know how to pic the good places!
Did you join in the dancing? I hope I get a moment to share that video with our neighbor, Adela, who grew up in New Mexico. I could see her out on that dance floor! As I could see both of you, so… did you dance some of the night away?
:) :) T