I’ve been feeling like a fish pulled out of the sea and dumped on to strange land. Since the Uruguayans arrived Spanish has been the main language in the apartment. Everyone has been speaking Spanish, including the long-term French couchsurfer Lison, and another French couchsurfer and her English friend who were here last week. They [...]
Two Uruguayan couchsurfers, Pablo and Michaela, arrived last week. I took them to the Zocalo in the heart of the Centro Historico, in the exact same way, Lison, a French couchsurfer, had taken Katie and I on our first day in Mexico City.
I took a slightly different route once we got off the bus, walking [...]
Ok, if you think the title of this thread is weird, you should have tried being in my shoes yesterday!
I went back to Reforma on Monday morning to see if I could find the restaurant where I met Liilia in case she was there again. Now it is one thing when you don’t know an [...]
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I have met a lot of people in this trip but there have been a special few who have changed my life, my outlook, inspired me or who have just stood head and shoulders above the rest.
I have decided to write a series about the extra special people I have met so far who have [...]
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This is the bum shaking, hip wiggling Mariachi I mentioned in a previous post when I went on a canal boat in Xochimilco. It may just be me, and maybe you had to be there but I found him hilarious!
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Before I made plans to come to Mexico I was as aware as everyone else of the high amount of kidnappings in Mexico City, so I decided that even though we would have to fly into Mexico City we would get out as soon as possible on the next bus or plane to another part [...]
After having a lie in after not getting to bed till the early hours, Katie, Aureli, Anas’ sister, nephew, a couple of friends of hers and I went out for a late breakfast in the old part of Mexico City. We were going to have a walk around town before going to a traditional form [...]
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