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Mexico Travel Tips: When My Friends Visit Mexico

Published: Mar 4, 2014 · Modified: Feb 6, 2017 by Maura Wall Hernandez · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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When you write a blog about Mexican food and travel within Mexico, you're bound to be asked for recommendations by... well, EVERYONE. I'm talking family, friends, coworkers, friends of friends, blog readers, complete strangers—it really runs the gamut. But it's a true source of joy when you share Mexico travel tips with people, and they send you thanks in the form of a video, a photo, a tweet (or whatever else) to let you know they're thinking of you and appreciate a recommendation that has improved their experience while visiting Mexico.

In the last week, I've received two such messages that I wanted to share.

Several years ago, I mentioned to my friend Ramon and his wife how much I love El Globo, a bakery chain that makes one of my favorite kinds of pan dulce—garibaldi. They're a little upside-down poundcake-like treat that's bathed in (usually) apricot jam and rolled in white nonpareils. You can even make garibaldi at home with my recipe. A few days ago, while they were in León, Guanajuato, they sent this video while visiting an El Globo location there.

A few weeks ago, another friend told me she'd be traveling to Mexico City on business and needed some recommendations for places to go for breakfast and dinners when she was able to go out on her own. I sent her a list of some of my favorite places near where she was staying and she shared this photo when she visited Churrería El Moro.

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