Remember the Alamo!

Awoke to drizzle but temps already up on yesterday's with a promise of 20 degrees higher by mid afternoon.
After another sumptuous breakfast we explored the local area and had a guided tour of a house built in 1870.  There are many lovely houses in the King William area and many are being /have been renovated since the 60's when they had become very run down.  Most were built by German immigrants.

We walked up to down town and watched the IMAX film on the Alamo which turned out to be pretty much as expected: a very patriotic, shallow look at  what happened.  When we emerged after 45 minute the skies were clear and the temperature was rising.  We then visited the actual Alamo which is little more than a few walls and the usual tourist info and gift store selling tat.  It is right down town so surrounded now by high buildings.  The grounds are very attractively planted but there's little to bring back the feel of the old mission/fort.

Next stop was the bar at the Menger Hotel, the oldest in Texas where Teddy Roosevelt recruited cowboys as soldiers for his invasion of Cuba- The Rough Riders.  unchanged since the turn of the last century it has a great atmosphere, a friendly barmaid and a giant moose head.

We walked on to the Mexican market but wished we hadn't bothered.....more tat.

Now it's time for another Mexican meal, this time right next door.