@@SlowpokeTravel Best street vendor food I've ever had was in Tijuana 1987... Hot dogs with everything, how horrifying is that? Margaritas & chips & salsa & tacos, we Gringos know our Mexican.
Funny stuff, that whole drinking water thing on top of a microwave on top of a cupboard ... I guess the cleaner who was preparing that appartment before you arrived simply put that stuff out of the way and forgot to put it back to where it originally stood ... ;-) That said - seems have here almost the same system. Slightly different, our containers do not come with any handle, and the dispenser is made from transparent plastic same as the bottles, but basically exactly the same. The water which we get that way is usually cleaned by reverse osmosis, why that water is also commonly called RO-Water. The water from the faucet is consumeable as well, anyhow, but only after boiling or filtering. We avoid to drink it as it comes out of the faucet - it comes there from the roof tank (which has to be cleaned regularly), to which is is pumped from an underground tank (which also has to be cleaned regularly), which is filled every couple of days with water provided by the town for a couple of hours. This water then comes originally from a river far away by a pipeline to the town. If the town doesn't deliver or you need more than they deliver, you get your underground tank filled with water from water tankers, either lorries or tractors with hangers. Means: you never know what quality that water in your tank has. Once we had even small fishes swimming in our tank, after such a tractor brought us water ... most probably that thing wasn't bringing us ground water but some stuff from some lake nearby, that's at least what I think after doing some research about fishes in ground water ... Well, and that whole story of how our water reaches the faucet, is the reason why we use that RO water for drinking ... In general, the water situation is not really great. Most of the ground water around big cities is polluted with heavy metals and other things which do not really belong into ground water, so even if you pump up the water from deep down, it is not really healthy stuff. Surface water, well, similarly - not really fine. Vegetable grown in the perimeter of any large city and watered by what that city delivers, also not really safe to eat ... But ok, as the air quality also doesn't really comply with WHO standards, who cares ... no risk, no fun ... 🤣 Regards to Mexico, and have a great time there! Robert
Hola!--good to hear from you. Hope you well. Most of the places we've stayed in Mexico have had water tanks on top of the roofs. This accommodation also has an underground tank. There is a home-wide filtration system in our current house sit that makes the water potable from all of the faucets--or so we've been told! I almost prefer the bottled water system, cause I can actually see where the drinking water is coming from...but we're not testing any of the water, so we really can only hope for the best. We've been told by several residents that the arsenic levels in the San Miguel city water is higher than it should be...maybe if we lived here long term we would drink only bottled water, or have it tested. As it is, we are sucking on a lot of bus fumes walking around town, and eating plenty of processed foods, so there's risks every time we take a breath or a bite or a swallow, so we just look at the pretty birds and say, "oh, what a pretty bird!"
@@SlowpokeTravel Hahaha, yeah, the pretty bird escape, especially used when people get victims of the boiling frog syndrome ... we all know it or should at least know when there is something wrong but our senses cannot make out the slow speed and sub lethal dosis of what's going on ... until we are dead. I remember some months back, when a newspaper presented the content of a study according to which more or less all the vegetables purchased on different locations and in different shops and markets in Bangalore contained much more dangerous stuff like heavy metals etc. as permitted. When that was in the newspaper, everybody of us 15 millions or so here in the city scratched the head and told, oh shit, the entirety of our veggies are poisonous? Then we went to our vegetable shop and saw that beautiful cauliflower and this straight carrot and deep red tomato and purchased all of it and washed it (!) under the water from our faucet (!) and then of course we fried and boiled it and so on. And we eat all of it and looked out of the window: wow, what a wonderful Bulbul!
Very interesting. Now I know why businesses here complain about foreigners putting toilet paper in their trash cans! Foreigners don't know its flushable here. Businesses might want to post "flush toilet paper". You learn something every day.😊😊
We've flushed toilet paper most of this trip--I guess 'cause we're in San Miguel de Allende, which is a tourist and expat hotspot, and the city has grown quite a bit in the past few decades. During our 5 month Mexico trip prior to covid, we very rarely flushed toilet paper and encountered "do not flush paper" signs in almost every toilet, but we stayed in more traditional Mexican locales, I think
I have always been cautious when in some countries drinking the water. I have been told to watch out for fresh food in restaurants that it might be washed with tap water. What was your experience?
In our previous Mexico trip, we kind of avoided salads and leafy greens in restaurants, but on this trip we're not worrying about it too much; we eat fresh greens out whenever we can, and hope that they are clean and sanitary; so far so good (fingers crossed). We do have to make an effort to eat salads out, since carb heavy meals are omnipresent, but we do make the effort. We bring lots of fresh veggies home from the market, and we do wash and sanitize those veggies. We met an expat couple living here in San Miguel for 3 years who say that they no longer sanitize their fresh veggies in cleaning solution...they feel they've acclimated to whatever bacteria they might encounter. We've gotten to where we sometimes treat our veggies even when we're back in the USA.
Back when I used to live in California we always drank from those very same water bottles! Once I moved to Oregon I got used to just drinking water out of the sink! And now in our current home it's filtered fridge water only. lol.
everywhere I ever lived in the USA, I've just drank water from the tap; although I'm not sure it was a great idea when I lived in New Orleans...I always lived in older places though, so I figured between the lead paint and the crime, I had other things to worry about in N.O.
Great show fellers!
Gracias!--hope your weekend is going super duper. Happy Cinco de Mayo!--I think it's a bigger holiday in the USA
@@SlowpokeTravel Best street vendor food I've ever had was in Tijuana 1987... Hot dogs with everything, how horrifying is that?
Margaritas & chips & salsa & tacos, we Gringos know our Mexican.
Funny stuff, that whole drinking water thing on top of a microwave on top of a cupboard ... I guess the cleaner who was preparing that appartment before you arrived simply put that stuff out of the way and forgot to put it back to where it originally stood ... ;-)
That said - seems have here almost the same system. Slightly different, our containers do not come with any handle, and the dispenser is made from transparent plastic same as the bottles, but basically exactly the same. The water which we get that way is usually cleaned by reverse osmosis, why that water is also commonly called RO-Water.
The water from the faucet is consumeable as well, anyhow, but only after boiling or filtering. We avoid to drink it as it comes out of the faucet - it comes there from the roof tank (which has to be cleaned regularly), to which is is pumped from an underground tank (which also has to be cleaned regularly), which is filled every couple of days with water provided by the town for a couple of hours. This water then comes originally from a river far away by a pipeline to the town. If the town doesn't deliver or you need more than they deliver, you get your underground tank filled with water from water tankers, either lorries or tractors with hangers. Means: you never know what quality that water in your tank has. Once we had even small fishes swimming in our tank, after such a tractor brought us water ... most probably that thing wasn't bringing us ground water but some stuff from some lake nearby, that's at least what I think after doing some research about fishes in ground water ...
Well, and that whole story of how our water reaches the faucet, is the reason why we use that RO water for drinking ...
In general, the water situation is not really great. Most of the ground water around big cities is polluted with heavy metals and other things which do not really belong into ground water, so even if you pump up the water from deep down, it is not really healthy stuff. Surface water, well, similarly - not really fine. Vegetable grown in the perimeter of any large city and watered by what that city delivers, also not really safe to eat ...
But ok, as the air quality also doesn't really comply with WHO standards, who cares ... no risk, no fun ... 🤣
Regards to Mexico, and have a great time there! Robert
Hola!--good to hear from you. Hope you well. Most of the places we've stayed in Mexico have had water tanks on top of the roofs. This accommodation also has an underground tank. There is a home-wide filtration system in our current house sit that makes the water potable from all of the faucets--or so we've been told! I almost prefer the bottled water system, cause I can actually see where the drinking water is coming from...but we're not testing any of the water, so we really can only hope for the best. We've been told by several residents that the arsenic levels in the San Miguel city water is higher than it should be...maybe if we lived here long term we would drink only bottled water, or have it tested. As it is, we are sucking on a lot of bus fumes walking around town, and eating plenty of processed foods, so there's risks every time we take a breath or a bite or a swallow, so we just look at the pretty birds and say, "oh, what a pretty bird!"
@@SlowpokeTravel Hahaha, yeah, the pretty bird escape, especially used when people get victims of the boiling frog syndrome ... we all know it or should at least know when there is something wrong but our senses cannot make out the slow speed and sub lethal dosis of what's going on ... until we are dead.
I remember some months back, when a newspaper presented the content of a study according to which more or less all the vegetables purchased on different locations and in different shops and markets in Bangalore contained much more dangerous stuff like heavy metals etc. as permitted. When that was in the newspaper, everybody of us 15 millions or so here in the city scratched the head and told, oh shit, the entirety of our veggies are poisonous? Then we went to our vegetable shop and saw that beautiful cauliflower and this straight carrot and deep red tomato and purchased all of it and washed it (!) under the water from our faucet (!) and then of course we fried and boiled it and so on. And we eat all of it and looked out of the window: wow, what a wonderful Bulbul!
Very interesting. Now I know why businesses here complain about foreigners putting toilet paper in their trash cans! Foreigners don't know its flushable here. Businesses might want to post "flush toilet paper". You learn something every day.😊😊
We've flushed toilet paper most of this trip--I guess 'cause we're in San Miguel de Allende, which is a tourist and expat hotspot, and the city has grown quite a bit in the past few decades. During our 5 month Mexico trip prior to covid, we very rarely flushed toilet paper and encountered "do not flush paper" signs in almost every toilet, but we stayed in more traditional Mexican locales, I think
I have always been cautious when in some countries drinking the water. I have been told to watch out for fresh food in restaurants that it might be washed with tap water. What was your experience?
In our previous Mexico trip, we kind of avoided salads and leafy greens in restaurants, but on this trip we're not worrying about it too much; we eat fresh greens out whenever we can, and hope that they are clean and sanitary; so far so good (fingers crossed). We do have to make an effort to eat salads out, since carb heavy meals are omnipresent, but we do make the effort. We bring lots of fresh veggies home from the market, and we do wash and sanitize those veggies. We met an expat couple living here in San Miguel for 3 years who say that they no longer sanitize their fresh veggies in cleaning solution...they feel they've acclimated to whatever bacteria they might encounter. We've gotten to where we sometimes treat our veggies even when we're back in the USA.
These videos are so relaxing I look forward to watching them everday in my crane at work to help the time pass.
Relaxing in the crane? Crane pose? I'm assuming you work at a yoga studio.
Gimme the clap !
yes, I started off on the wrong footing
Back when I used to live in California we always drank from those very same water bottles! Once I moved to Oregon I got used to just drinking water out of the sink! And now in our current home it's filtered fridge water only. lol.
everywhere I ever lived in the USA, I've just drank water from the tap; although I'm not sure it was a great idea when I lived in New Orleans...I always lived in older places though, so I figured between the lead paint and the crime, I had other things to worry about in N.O.
@@SlowpokeTravel yeah! I'll gladly take N.O. water over some crime-related incident! 😅
Women use toilet paper waaaay more than men! It’s needed every time we go number 1!! Men need only for number 2!😂😂😂
well, as an aging male, I can say that that's not entirely true :^)
@@SlowpokeTravel oh yes. I get it! Forgot about that part of it- the aging part!😅