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Off Season Summer Fun in Puerto Vallarta with Jeff and Melody
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[caption id="attachment_1202" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Los Arcos Hotel Restaurant[/caption] Hello fellow travelers, welcome this episode of the Puerto Vallarta Travel show. I am your host Barry Kessler and I am just so happy to be to introducing you to my favorite vacation destination in the entire world and maybe even yours, that's Puerto Vallarta Mexico. That music you were just listing to is performed by Alberto Perez, the owner of La Palapa, The El Dorado Restaurant, and at night for dinner The [caption id="attachment_194" align="alignright" width="300"] La Palapa, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico[/caption] El Dorado transforms into The Vista Grill. That's the Vista Grill that used to be up on the hill, well now it has a new vista and that is right on Los Muertos Beach in the Romantic Zone, on the Southside, with a dramatic view of the Los Muertos Pier all lit up at night in beautiful colors. You will be able to dine on the same Vista Grill Menu, and receive that fantastic Vista Grill service. Of course, at La Palapa you can enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner, with your toes in the sand right at the water's edge. It's so romantic, it's so Puerto Vallarta my friends! So let's see what's happening this week, the 8th of August, 2017 in our favorite little paradise, Puerto Vallarta.
A Jalisco Municipality Fights Noise Pollution[caption id="attachment_1236" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Noise Abatement in Jalisco, Mexico[/caption] If you have ever spent time in a real Mexican neighborhood, you may have noticed that they can be really noisy places, at all times of the day or night in fact. You can be sleeping soundly at let's say 3:30 in the morning, when all of a sudden out of the blue, banda music comes blaring through your open window. And it's not like, oops, I turned on my stereo and the knob was turned way up by accident. It's more like, the knob is turned all the way to high… and it's like stuck there. Then, the party just keeps going, and going until 5 AM. Wedding celebrations, Quinceaneras, birthdays, Ground Hog Day, Mother's Day, you name it. It can get loud. Well a state lawmaker in Jalisco is attempting to pass anti-noise legislation. Here's an article written in Mexico News Daily, An anti-noise campaign that began in June in Zapopan, Jalisco, has so far resulted in the permanent closure of 35 businesses that exceeded noise limits established by the municipality. Another nine have been fined, as well as the owner of a noisy house. The administration of Mayor Jesús Pablo Lemus Navarro reports that given the number of commercial establishments located in the neighborhood of Chapalita, that part of the city is by far the