A trip into town

We needed to do some more grocery shopping, plus we hadn't yet wandered around town. So we hopped into a collectivo taxi that runs by the roadway out front to take us into the center of Valle de Bravo. 

The cost is 25 pesos ($1.75 CAD, $1.25 USD) per person one way.

Besides groceries and generally wandering around, Ruth was also looking for some shoes. She only has a pair of sandals and her hiking boots, and really needed some sneakers.

The municipal marina.

Those larger boats are actually floating restaurants.

The local "home depot" (hardware store).

Pinatas for sale!

Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

Looks like Herbie has some competition!

Lots of street decorations.

I took the photo above just as Ruth was making a deal for her new shoes, after probably being in a dozen different stores and trying on a dozen different pairs. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but it felt like it! She walked away with a pair of sneakers for 320 pesos ($22.50 CAD, $15.85 USD).

This guy has a nice view!

Ruth, standing at the base of the big Christmas tree in the plaza by the marina.

Valle de Bravo is close to several of the monarch butterfly wintering grounds.

Odd statue at the marina.

They sure are good at building houses on hills.

We were surprised to find this gluten free bakery. 

The stuff was really expensive though. 200 pesos ($14 CAD, $10 USD) for a loaf of bread. It's hard to justify when corn tortillas are so cheap.

This is what we call "5th Avenue" here in Valle de Bravo.

Lots of expensive shops.

The church in the main plaza.

More Christmas decorations.

Odd decorations at this guys place!

We stopped into the big Chedraui super store to do groceries. They've expanded it since we were last here in January 2020, and it's a huge store now. 

It's still very common in Mexico to get fresh ground beef at the butcher shop, and it's no different in the big commercial stores. You simply tell the butcher how much you want, and they cut it fresh and put it through the grinder and package it up for you.

The butcher cutting our meat before putting it into the grinder.

My favorite cheap Scotch!

However it's not as cheap as it once was, and it's now difficult to find. I think everybody else must have figured out how good it was! It's now 225 pesos, which by Canadian standards is still really cheap. But five years ago it was maybe 135 pesos! I didn't buy any, but I might when we return from Playa del Carmen.

Because we had our groceries, we then took a regular private taxi from the Chedraui, which cost 100 pesos ($7 CAD, $5 USD) back to the marina.

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