When does the rainy season start in Guadalajara?
For years I would confidently reply: June 12.
Where I got that date, I don’t know, but over nearly 40 years it has mostly been right, even though the traditional start of the temporal de lluvias is June 24, the Feast of John the Baptist, a water-bringing saint if there ever was one.
This year, my prediction was wrong, but in compensation, allow me to present two completely natural water holes only half an hour from the Periférico (Guadalajara beltway) and known to very few.
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