When Fraser said he was coming to Mexico for a month I immediatly started thinking about where to take him outside of the city. After making a list of places, looking at activities at each place and wanting all of them, I ended up deciding on San Miguel de Allende. I knew that if we didn't go I'd end up regretting it as it's one of the essential places to visit in Mexico and I finalised the decision by visiting San Miguel a couple of months before and fell completely in love with it again.

 San Miguel is one of the most charming little towns I’ve been to, keeping its historic, pebbled and very mexican charm intact even through all the tourism and americans that have found a home there. It helped that Fraser and I stayed in the loveliest AirBnB; a little villa-like flat where we managed to chill quite a lot when we got tired of walking around.





Walking. One of the wonderful things about the holiday was being able to walk virtually everywhere, which is useful given we found ourselves forgetting things constantly and having to walk back to the flat.

 On to the most interesting thing, what we did there. We quickly settled into a routine; breakfast out in a coffee shop, walk around, chill at the flat, lunch out, chill again, walk, rooftop bar, dinner, home, repeat (little too long for that). I think my favourite part was the rooftop bars. They are all wonderfully charming, atop old buildings or modern hotels that blend into the landscape with beautiful views and chilled atmospheres, be it at the Mama Mia restaurant, the Matilda or the Rosewood hotels (the latter has one of the best views of San Miguel you’ll ever see).


That’s not to say I wasn’t happy with everything else, hidden or not hidden there’s some wonderful food places and little coffee shops; we even found a coffee shop that somehow led into a fashion store, a gallery and the coolest little food market.

 Walking around that place with great company, sipping on cocktails and special beers, eating pizza and mexican food made it one of the best escapes from the city I’ve had in a while. I’d definitely recommend if you live in Mexico or are around some day, it’s not that far from the city and the coaches there are actually pretty good!