The embattled chief executive of telstra , sol trujillo , helped pay his way through college in america by playing the trumpet in his family 's mariachi band .
Decorative skeletons and skulls are on display at many houses and hotels , nowhere more so than at a fantastic little hotel we discover at another must-stop on the silver town trail , the state capital guanajuato , a picture-perfect colonial gem , full of partying students , craft markets and mariachi bands .