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US ‘Travel Detective’ shares ‘Mexico’s best-kept travel secret’

The other day I got a call from the United States. “Peter Greenberg is in town and would like to interview you for his radio program,” a cheery voice said.

A quick Google search enlightened me. Peter Greenberg, I learned, is known as The Travel Detective and is considered the world’s top travel journalist. He is, in fact, an award-winning investigative reporter and a best-selling author to boot. Greenberg has won many Emmy Awards for investigative reporting and has been given personal tours of their countries by the King of Jordan, the Prime Ministers of Israel and New Zealand and in the case of Mexico by none other than President Felipe Calderon.

“Of course I will let him interview me,” I replied, adding, sotto voce, “and maybe I can manage to interview him too.”

Unfortunately, Greenberg had picked a downtown hotel for his interviews, right next to Avenida Alcalde, which is literally being torn to pieces, the air billowing with clouds of dust as well as the earsplitting roar of jackhammers and bulldozers building the city’s third subway line. 

“That Travel Detective is pretty clever,” I thought to myself. “I bet the hotel is paying him to stay here.”

My interview was a bit of a disaster as I was asked not to name a gorgeous canyon, a spectacular waterfall or a fire-spitting volcano, but a “good place to eat in Guadalajara.”

“Eat? Well, to tell the truth, my favorite place to eat in the city is Sirloin Stockade!” Well, I never got to tell him about this restaurant’s economical, “all-you-can-eat” buffet, featuring what seem like thousands of choices, all delicious and highly unlikely to leave you with Montezuma’s revenge – because of the hearty laugh that met my unexpected gastronomical suggestion.

Nevertheless, Greenberg very kindly agreed to let me interview him. 

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