It was the first chilly night in Guadalajara, but people were percolating. A woman in a spaghetti strap dress showing off shoulder and arm tattoos chatted as if the weather were balmy.
The crowd of about 50 gabbed with enthusiasm, filling the front patios at the microbrewery Cerveceria Gibbons. People even overflowed onto the sidewalk for a smoke.
Luis Vazquez said it was the largest ever crowd attending English Speaking Business Networking Group Guadalajara, which he and Swedish national Stellan Ahvander started two years ago.
Americans, Colombians, Mexicans, Germans and a host of attendees from other countries mingled enthusiastically during the two- or three-hour event, sometimes creating a deafening uproar. But it wasn’t quite enough to satisfy Vazquez, a medical doctor and entrepreneur who said he has spent so much time in Germany that he thinks he may have dipped into their national psyche.
“I’m always pushing myself,” he observed. “I want to see hundreds here, Australians and people from all over. I want it to be a mess!”
Vazquez said his group has been meeting at Cerveceria Gibbons since it opened in June. He became friends with the microbrewery’s two young and recently relocated owners: Max, from California, and Sinoe, raised in Tepatitlan but a California resident since high school.
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