The Best of San Miguel de Allende, Bilingual Edition

By Joseph Harmes

"The Best of San Miguel de Allende/Lo Mejor de San Miguel de Allende" is an up-to-date, all-inclusive guide which talks to its curious readers with a blend of humor, integrity and insight, vididly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9687846720
• ISBN13: 9789687846729
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Joseph Harmes
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.3" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

GReat book; great advice

Good book! Everyone, please, eat food in the street and drink water straight from the tap. Then you might get sick and puke in the Jardin and run all the GWB loving Republican Texas idiots back to where they came from and they can quit playing the adventurers and take their 50k SUV's and their traffic back from whence they came.

Ready to go!

This book exceeded my expectations. I have visited San Miguel in the past and loved it. Now I am even more excited to return - am going for a week on Tuesday. This guide gave me such interesting tips and chuckles to boot.

Great resource book that's right on the mark!

We've been to SMA many times, and have just bought a house there. This is a great, and very accurate, book about all sorts of very useful info for the vacationer, seasonal visitor, or resident. Kudos to the author and many thanks!

Don't leave home without this one

Alan Cogan, MexConnect.com, March 2005. Here's a guidebook with a significant difference - it's fun to read. Harmes gives us several hundred Bests from what is now his home town. Thus we get the items we'd expect, such as Best T-shirt shop, Best seafood, Best colonial buildings, Best day trips, Best bars, Best views, etc.. They're all there - 126 pages of them. And 26 of those are devoted to restaurants and dining. But he also gives us - tongue firmly in cheek - items like Best place to dump a body, Best bathrooms for a quickie, Best grafitti, Best haunted house, Best bargain booze and lots more. Harmes, a former Time, Newsweek and People Magazine writer, has managed to include some informative sections on history and culture and all the many events that take place in any Mexican community throughout the year. He claims to have personally visited all the listings in his book and that it's up-to-date to November 2004. And a couple more features enhance its value. One is that it's quite handsomely illustrated. The other is it's completely bilingual - English and Spanish. If you have any thought of going to San Miguel - one of Mexico's most visited communities - make sure that a copy of "The Best of San Miguel" is prominent in your travel kit.