La Texana goes Fashion

Last Saturday it was all about fashion, lifestyle and culture:

we visited the 7th edition of El Mercadito Bazar - a fashion and lifestyle event with numerous young Mexican designers showing their work.

Welcome to Mercadito Bazar

It varied from fashion, graphic, industrial, illustrational and music works. Our favourites were the individual designed iPhone cases, handbags of all kind of materials (Frida Kahlo printed), jewelry (especially the bracelets and necklaces from Citrina) and the fancy t-shirts from Hipster Glam which were all on affordable prices. The bazar was located at Tequila, one of the most famous clubs in Merida.

Exhibition of designers 

Another highlight this day was La Noche Blanca which is held twice a year in the historic centre of Merida. That night the centre of Merida turns into a big hub of locations and events like concerts, circus artists, cinema and theatre and many more.

La Noche Balnca - Cathedral de Yucatán

Our first stop was the fashion show of David Salomon - a Mexican designers, originally from Merida who dressed american actresses like Kate Walsh, Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria and many more. He presented his collection "Fortuna" in front of the Cathedral de Yucatan in the heart of Merida.

David Salomon fashion show

La Texana Cocktail Night

Last friday we hosted La Texana Cocktail Night at Casa Naña which is one of our student homes.

We invited a professional Bartender who brought all his equipment and taught us four delicious cocktail recipes. As a group of total beginners we had a lot of fun. We worked in teams of two and started a competition whose cocktails tasted the best.



We learned that every cocktail always is made of 3 basic ingredients:

- base of alcohol (in our case gin or vodka)
- base of juice
- a tasteful addition (like herbs, honey etc.)


Among others we used ingredientes like cucumbers and apple slices to experience a different taste than the usual Caipirinhas or Mojitos. It was pretty interesting learning about the secrets of cocktail mixing from a professional bartender.

Let's go: La Texana cocktail night

The equipment

Tasting the first cocktail

Cheers from Brazil and Germany

Our selection of cocktails:

1. Golden Fusion
    (Vodka, mint liquor, lemon juice,
     cucumber, marmalade, ginger ale)
2. Polar Gin
    (Gin, Blue Curacao, lemon juice, mint,
     sugar, ginger ale)
3. Red Joy
    (Gin, honey, apple juice, red fruit tea)
4. Spicy Ro 
    (Gin, orange juice, lemon juice,
     cucumber, chilli)


Our favorite was definitely Golden Fusion :)

Polar Gin, Golden Fusion, Red Joy and Spicy Ro (left to right)

Corona Music Fest

Hearing and sawing the advertisements all over Merida we decided to go to Corona Music Fest on Saturday. Official start was at 1 pm but as we already are familiar with the Mexicans sense for timing we went there around 7pm (I have to admit that this was more because of the rain).

We didn't expect such a big event and were quite impressed when we finally get there. The line-up was full of local Mexican bands which rarely also are famous outside Mexico (Molotov and Cafe Tacvba were one of the most popular). The atmosphere was great even though it was raining occasionally. We had a great night with chelas (1 litre) for 40 pesos (!!).

Playing: Cafe Tacvba

Friday Night at centro

Dance floor - Casa Pompidou

This Friday we went to the center (centro) of Merida to get to know the local bars and clubs. We started at Mala Vida - a Mexican style bar in a kind of backyard with an open air terrace, very casual, Mexican music mixed with international chart hits and great atmosphere.

Mojitos for 60 pesos (3€) and chelas (beer) for less than 2€. There were almost no tourists which made it appear less commercial than other clubs I've been to before.

Comic paintings (again: NO ME TOQUEN ANGO CHIDO!)

Second stop afterwards then was Casa Pompidou or just "Pompi" - a club where mainly local Mexican DJs are playing a range of electro, house and minimal. The place has a special charme with its comic art paintings all over the walls and open air dance floor. It also has with a little bistro where they serve delicious pizza and other snacks. However you'll meet more tourists and the people's style definitely differs from the first place (like urban hipster style). We enjoyed the relaxed and chilled atmosphere very much even if the bathrooms could have been in a better shape.