Our trusty travel tablet has gone blank today --- Sunday off? ready to go home?? So this (hopefully) is being posted from PV's last dusty backroad internet cafe. Remember those?
The new rental is a huge improvement, even though it's only a few levels lower than the GoatPath Inn. It's behind the black-and-white-striped structure in the photo from the street below --- find it? Not much from the rocky road entrance, but a quiet green oasis inside. Top floor of three, usable kitchen, pool and open air balcony. Oh --- and panoramic views of town and bay.
Free SkyShows daily. Sunsets are fiery spectacles, moon rises are dramatic/ominous. And every night at 9:30pm the Pirate Ship assaults shoreline walls with fireworks that boom and echo like blowouts on an 18-wheeler.
Out to the movie house, the choices of transit range from 3,800-passenger cruise ship to 1-passenger oat-eater. We settled on a creaky bus to see The Post. A history lesson from the '60's with powerful pushback to what's happening in the States these days. (Will it win an Oscar tonight?)
Vallarta is a cultural capital whether you want galleries, restaurants, festivals, public statuary, or ---like us --- live music. Huge choice of shows every night at intimate venues nearby. "Well Strung"is 4 guys on string instruments (duh!) who turn out to be as witty as they are superb musicians. (I think they get a lot more campy in the gayiety of the late-night shows..)
BohemiaViva hail from Italy via Argentina and are also jaw-dropping in playing, singing, and fun patter. Too much to describe --- watch their YouTubes.
But the trio Duende ("mischievious spirit creating heightened emotions") blew us away. Funny, creative, ancient Armenian instruments thrown in, and just stupefying in playing and dance. A blur of fingers, a whirl of feet, a ton of standing ovation. Check them out!
Meanwhile the next generation of musicians is out in the streets paying their dues. Isn't that how Springsteen, Midler, and Bieber started?
Back at the apartment, we have been shocked and challenged to see the waves of colourful and exotic (to us) birds in the African Tulip tree just 20 feet from our rail! They all drink out of the cup formed by the blossoms, like this Orchard Oriole...
Or this combo of vireo and warbler...
Or these male and female Bullock Orioles...
And last but not least my fave, this Golden Cheek Woodpecker. (That name just demands a joke, doesn't it??)
The new rental is a huge improvement, even though it's only a few levels lower than the GoatPath Inn. It's behind the black-and-white-striped structure in the photo from the street below --- find it? Not much from the rocky road entrance, but a quiet green oasis inside. Top floor of three, usable kitchen, pool and open air balcony. Oh --- and panoramic views of town and bay.
Free SkyShows daily. Sunsets are fiery spectacles, moon rises are dramatic/ominous. And every night at 9:30pm the Pirate Ship assaults shoreline walls with fireworks that boom and echo like blowouts on an 18-wheeler.
Out to the movie house, the choices of transit range from 3,800-passenger cruise ship to 1-passenger oat-eater. We settled on a creaky bus to see The Post. A history lesson from the '60's with powerful pushback to what's happening in the States these days. (Will it win an Oscar tonight?)
Vallarta is a cultural capital whether you want galleries, restaurants, festivals, public statuary, or ---like us --- live music. Huge choice of shows every night at intimate venues nearby. "Well Strung"is 4 guys on string instruments (duh!) who turn out to be as witty as they are superb musicians. (I think they get a lot more campy in the gayiety of the late-night shows..)
BohemiaViva hail from Italy via Argentina and are also jaw-dropping in playing, singing, and fun patter. Too much to describe --- watch their YouTubes.
But the trio Duende ("mischievious spirit creating heightened emotions") blew us away. Funny, creative, ancient Armenian instruments thrown in, and just stupefying in playing and dance. A blur of fingers, a whirl of feet, a ton of standing ovation. Check them out!
Meanwhile the next generation of musicians is out in the streets paying their dues. Isn't that how Springsteen, Midler, and Bieber started?
Back at the apartment, we have been shocked and challenged to see the waves of colourful and exotic (to us) birds in the African Tulip tree just 20 feet from our rail! They all drink out of the cup formed by the blossoms, like this Orchard Oriole...
Or this combo of vireo and warbler...
Or these male and female Bullock Orioles...
And last but not least my fave, this Golden Cheek Woodpecker. (That name just demands a joke, doesn't it??)
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