Taxco - the silver capital of Mexico!

Visited Taxco this weekend which is a beautiful colonial town about 130 km south of the city, set on the mountain side. The area is well known for it's silver mines and with over 300 quaint silver shops, you can imagine how I passed the time!! The weather was superb and the rooftop restaurants are excellent for watching the stars at night. Stayed in a converted monastry called Los Arcos which is a beautiful building with an amaing tree growing up the central courtyard. If you are coming to Mexcico at any time then you must visit Taxco.....defintely my favourite place so far.
The English teaching is going really well at the language school and I now know all the correct grammatical terms and how to explain how we use the 13 different tenses in English. I even managed to squeeze a few Spanish lessons in last week so have also brushed up on my Spanish grammal. The temperatures are set to drop to zero degrees at night here this week in the city so time to get out the wooly jumpers!!!

Views during the journey to Taxco which had the most amazing blue flowers along the way

Typical cobbled streets

The dome (above) of the main church (below)

One of the lovely quaint houses in amongst the silver shops

Typical handcrafted pottery for sale

One of the many silver shops...couldnt' work

out what the connection with Ely was though

The converted monastry with the tree growing up the central courtyard