Buying Glasses in Puebla

Today was a low key day but we did accomplish one big thing. We ordered new Transitions eye glasses here. -no eye appointment, way cheaper, free eye exam and will be ready in 2 weeks.

Before we came to Mexico, we had our eyes tested in Fergus and were given new prescriptions for glasses. We didn’t have time to get them before we left so we decided to get them after we got home. I put the prescriptions in with our passports, just in case our glasses broke or we lost them.

Yesterday Chris bought a pair of sunglasses in a glasses store and we found out we could buy good transition lenses here for less than half the price of lenses at home and no tax!!

We showed up at Optica Jeshua the next morning and they were happy to see us again. They did a thorough eye exam and compared our prescriptions with what they came up with. They were practically the same as the prescriptions we brought with us.

It was a new experience doing the eye exam in Spanish but all went well with a few laughs along the way.

We ordered them and they will be ready in 2 weeks.

Lunch was on the second floor of a restaurant called El Comal, directly across from the Cathedral. They serve traditional Pueblo food. We shared a plate of three different cemitas and had delicious cafe de ollas.

Cemitas are sandwiches from Puebla that are on a crunchy sesame seed egg bun that is typically filled with breaded meat (milanesa), chicken, steak or pork as well as Oaxaca cheese, avocado, and herb-like pápalo ( like arugula).Læs mere