Guanajuato 16.11.-26.11.

First of all: I had planned for 3 nights, but ended up staying for 10 because I absolutely loved it here. Guanajuato has the perfect size for me, everything is within walking distance, you can get everything you need, beautiful viewpoints, everything is colorful again, great people. The temperatures during the day are perfect, around 23 degrees, but at night it cools down to about 4 degrees, and often I would warm my feet with my travel hairdryer in the evening.

The first 4 days I mainly spent with Gabriel, whom I had met in Queretaro.

We visited the Mummies Museum, where people are displayed in a natural mummified state. These people died of cholera in 1833 and were buried, but when the relatives could no longer afford to pay for the graves, they were excavated and 119 bodies that happened to be mummified were then displayed.

I also visited the Don Quijote Museum in the hope of finding my name Dulcinea somewhere, but unfortunately I didn't (my second name was chosen because of the role in the book Don Quijote de la Mancha).

Because until that point I hadn't met any Mexicans from the city and wanted to practice Spanish, I arranged a Tinder date for the first time. Edgar is a student in Guanajuato and showed me all his favorite bars. It's always much nicer to get to know the places where locals actually spend time than to blindly go to any bars because you have no idea what's good.

But the next day I had an even more beautiful encounter. During lunch, I met the owner (Alejandro) of a small restaurant and agreed to meet him in the evening for salsa/cumbia dancing. After getting along great that evening, we spent every evening together, and I visited him at his restaurant at least once a day. He was by far the best encounter on my trip so far, but also the saddest goodbye.

One day I went hiking and talked to mom on the mountain, discussing which places I could visit on my trip. A woman (Julia) who had eavesdropped a bit approached me because she had similar plans. In the end, we planned our next two weeks together and will travel to the north together.

One evening, I went out to eat and sat peacefully alone in a restaurant when out of nowhere, a TV presenter with a 7-person camera crew came to my table. After finding out that I wasn't waiting for my boyfriend, she went to the next table. Because her TV show is about couples giving up their phones and allowing all their messages to be read for 14€. A couple in the restaurant agreed to this. The hostess found messages that revealed that the man in the relationship massages people, which his girlfriend knew about. What his girlfriend didn't know was that these massages sometimes included a happy ending. The woman poured a drink in the man's face and ran away, and the man chased after her to stop her. There are people I told this to who doubt that it's real, but it definitely looked real.

On my last evening, Alejandro and I went to a pulque bar (the internet says: it is an alcoholic fermentation drink made from the fermented sap of various agave plants). When I walked into the bar, I saw a familiar face that I know from Esslingen, a friend of Kim's. I didn't realize at all that I would randomly meet someone I know from years ago on the other side of the world.

Next destination: Guadalajara