Guanajuato part two

So each town has a distinct flavor, Guanajuatos is noise. Dogs on every roof, like cheap car alarms going off when anything pass´s. One dog sets of the next and it´s a dog symphony. All night. Through the ear plugs. Louder than Burning Man. Then there was the Saturday night we went to a local pub with our neighbor Dave the Canadian miner, got home around 3 (remember that things don´t start here till midnight... Dinner is served at 10...) and where woken at 5:45 by the church bells/fireworks/drum and bugle corps for what we don´t know. A mystery. At 5:45. The joys of travel. Otherwise the town is great, very pretty, set in a deep valley with as many tunnels as roads. not much car traffic on the visible streets, lots of pedestrians, Guanajuato has Mexico´s preeminent college for arts, music, theater and mining... Lots of students and it is also the capital of the state of Guanajuato, so lots of government types too. Many more foreign tourists than Zacatecas and lots of foreign students, mainly euro and Japanese... A flip side to this is that the locals are not as friendly as other places we have been, I think part of that is all the day trippers from Mexico City and San Miguel Allende. San Miguel is a super Americanized town, property values have shot up and out of the reach of locals, lots of resentment and grumpiness. Guanajuato must see that they are next on the list... A 18th century home on a square in the heart of town is 150K$... A little further out and its 40k... The same thing in San Miguel is 10 times that... We are only an hour away... Starting in about a week is yet another festival, this one is one of Latin Americas best art festivals...
(http://www.guanajuatocapital.com/ingles/Fic1.htm)
So we may stay a while... Despite the dogs...