Well, we survived. It took two days, of 12 and 15 hour days respectively, to travel the 1,500KM from Mexico City to Merida, but we did it without incident. Most of the journey was a 130KMH blur from the cramped…
Mexico City Food Porn
With our time in Mexico City at an end, it seems only necessary that some sort of list be compiled summarising our time in this big, crazy city, and what better list is there than one of good food? None.…
Driving in Mexico City
Many times I heard: “If you can drive in Mexico City, you can drive anywhere”. Now I can say that this is true. Learning to drive in Chihuahua was easy; a calm city with no traffic was a breeze to…
Restaurante Arroyo
For one of our final nights out in Mexico City, we went to the very popular, and very Mexican, Restaurante Arroyo. This place has been a Mexico City institution since 1940, with its walls filled with photos of the owner…
Abuela’s Birthday Party
Earlier this week I had a big Christmas present fly in from California: my mom. She arrived on Sunday and left on Thursday. It was a quick trip considering the distance, but the time spent together was definitely worth it.…
Los Luchadores
On Tuesday night we crossed off one of my big “must do” items for Mexico City: A night with the luchadores. And it was fantastic. We arrived at Arena Mexico, a 16,500 seat Art-Deco building, at around 645PM, which gave…
Feliz Cumpleanos Papi!
This is a special post for me as it relates to a special moment, the celebration of my dad’s birthday (a week early as he was in town for the weekend) and also of his “new” life. This year is…
Paseo de la Reforma
On Friday we spent the day walking Mexico City’s grand avenue Paseo de la Reforma. Inspired by the great boulevards of Europe, such as the Ringstrasse in Vienna, Emperor Maximilian I deemed it necessary in the mid-1860s to connect his…
Coyoacan
I had a few memories of Coyoacan from the last time I visited about 10 years ago. Those memories consisted mainly on the pancake guy (he makes pancakes on any shape you ask him for), as well as the many…
Castillo de Chapultepec
On Tuesday we visited one of only two Royal Castles in the Americas, and the only one to have ever housed a sovereign. Castillo de Chapultepec, now a museum, perched atop Chapultepec Hill in the heart of Mexico City, was…