Joseph Toone

Recently I took a new to San Miguel de Allende pal out to San Miguel Viejo (where the town originally started) for…

Coming home from a party in a car full of Mexican women we drove through Comonfort just as a thunder storm hit…

My pal volunteers for a countryside agrarian charity and one day received an offer to buy some land there at a very reasonable price…

On a recent tour I had a young, intelligent pharmacist that was asking me questions about the use of chemical and botanical medicine here…

Yesterday the world’s largest and most successful bakery, Mexico-based Bimbo, announce first quarter sales for 2021 reaching almost 4 billion dollars marking…

Back in 1963 Mexican comedian and movie star, Cantinflas, came to town to film a movie.  Like many folks before and since,…

Much like the cloistered nuns’ tamale business and my neighbor’s chair rental company, the piñata industry, equally dependent on social gatherings, has seen sales plummet.…

by Joseph Toone It is great fun to explore the ancient haciendas around town, from our oldest, Tirado, to the horror-movie-featured ruins of…

by Joseph Toone In the last few weeks social media has been bombarded with viciousness from foreigners.  Granted, ex-pats are not known…

As a child, I adored putting on marionette shows but anytime the strings got tangled I had to go to my Mom to have…