After arriving sleepy on the night bus from Guadalajara in Ciudad Valles, I searched Google Maps for the best cafe. Unfortunately, Ciudad Valles isn’t very big, but I was able to find a cafe that was rated excellent and was supposed to open at 8am. When I got there shortly after 8 with my huge backpack, I got the shocking news… it looked like it was still closed! Ok, so I went to the hostel and tried to check in a little earlier. After I was allowed to do that successfully, I wanted my coffee! Back to the cafe at 09:15 and… it was still closed! A bit sad, because it was the only cafe with a good rating, I wrote to them directly on Facebook to ask if they would open today. And lo and behold… 5 minutes later it opened haha. Of course, the espresso machine wasn’t preheated yet, so I talked shop with the owner for a while. Chuy, the owner of the cute café, used the next few minutes to inform me extensively about all the sights in La Huasteca (the area around San Luis Potosi) and drew me a plan with day trips I should definitely do. He also put me in Whatsapp contact with one of his friends who offers tours (but unfortunately didn’t have any at the moment because of the few tourists) and one of his friends who rents cars. The cafe is called “Ananda barra de Cafe”… and over the next few days, when I wasn’t on a tour in the area, I was more or less always visiting! I was introduced to a number of new friends who stopped by daily for a coffee. And it was really great! The cappuccino is outstanding by the way!!! To find such an excellent espresso as well as this consistency of milk foam in a town like Ciudad Valles was a bit of a miracle. In the end, I was there for a whole week and besides the great food recommendations Chuy and his friends gave me, I was really on the road every day and fell into bed exhausted in the evening if I didn’t have a cappuccino after 8pm…