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CENT Day 7
OMG what a terrific day. We toured downtown Santa Fe winding our way through art galleries and stores displaying a wealth of local artists’ crafts. We stopped at one in particular, Manitou, a definite must see if you’re in the city. Little did we know we’d end up spending the night with the proprietor.
We ate tapas all day long, starting with breakfast at The Sleeping Dog, then meandered to a café where the owner served us Turkish coffee and we discovered that he had moved to Santa Fe from South Florida.
After exploring the beautiful St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral and several of the small parks interspersed between the adobe buildings, we ate Zarzuela, a shrimp and mussel stew at La Boca, and around 7 p.m., we walked to our last stop, El Meson, intending to have an early night and rest up for the Grand Canyon trip. Hah! Talk about the best laid plans…
Attached is a pic of our charming server, Andrea at El Meson.
I decided to set the second book in The Hades Squad series, Lucifer’s Choice, in El Meson and asked permission to take a few pics. While I was doing that, the DH (and for those of you who asked, mostly it refers to the dahling husband, sometimes to the danged husband, oftentimes to the devil of a husband) struck up a conversation with two men eating at a neighboring table.
One was the proprietor of Manitou, the other an amazing singer, David Clayton. Somehow we moved onto Vanessie’s, a nightclub featuring the talented Al Rogers. And guess what? Al lived in Holland for 20 years and spoke Friesian - the dialect of the area where the DH was born. Quite the coincidence, eh?
We met two other artists, one a retired B-movie star who had just turned 82 and his lady friend of 93, who both got up and belted out 60s classics like My Way, Moon River, and Amore. Here’s shots of them singing.
BTW, he’s been married 8 times!
All in all, a wonderful day and the perfect ending for our stay in Santa Fe.
Cheers,
JC