Coyoacan Mexico City

- Teotihuacan - Basilica - Coyoacan (Will update later …

Like I said on my Twitter account, I felt like an absolute rock star buying flight tickets to go to el DF just for a housewarming party. We had only just said goodbye to the Southampton gang and last Thursday it was time for another reunion to christen Laura and Molly's new ladpad. The girls from Querétaro, and Josh from Puebla, all made the trip …

Following a wonderful two weeks in Quertero, I headed back south to Mexico City for a long weekend with my Mexican friends.

On Saturday we journeyed south west to the small colonial town of Tepoztlan, a town surrounded by beautiful landscape. The mountains neighbouring this town create a hugely contrasting environment to Mexico City, and I …

Jeg ankommer til Mexico City ved 20-tiden totalt udmattet efter 22 timers samlet rejsetid fra København. Min ene sidemand på flyet er en schweizisk mand, der har en mexikansk kæreste, og derfor aftaler jeg at følges med dem i en taxa. Første regel på turen er at tage de rigtige og sikre taxaer ved lufthavnen, men k&# …

It was out of sheer novelty that we opted to stay in the dodgy hotel (let your mind wander... ok, that's far enough! Now reel it back in!). No rationale entered the equation. We should have read the signs. Perhaps the one in neon lights that read "Hotel Dodge" should've made this a non-starter!

After all, it was in a dodgy street in a …

Our last few days in Mexico were spent in Tio Paco's house in Mexico City. Tio Paco and Tia Lupita were away so we were there with Pedro (their son). Pedro was kind enough to not only put up with us for the week but also take the time to show us around the Zona Rosa and the Zocolo (downtown) and take us to a Lucha Libre match. Lucha Libre is a fun …

... ...this only makes you feel lonely and depressed! The Frida Kahlo museum is a little museum in the bario Coyoacan witch is really interesting to visit. Mexico city is however not a place where you want to stay for more than a couple of days. The ...

... few weeks here, 4 hostels, hundreds of pictures taken, douzens of tortillas and probably around a 100km walked, I can say that Mexico City is one of the great city I have visited.  It is really here that I could feel myself feeling really ...

... some 2000 years ago. Following our day at Teotihuacan, we headed east towards the city of Puebla. Highlights of Mexico City: - Temple Mayor, the partially restored Aztec ruins in the centre of Mexico City that were discovered in 1978. The ...

... (note to self!): WHY? Because it's also the dodgest, that's why! Basically we had two choices of accommodation in Mexico City - overpriced or dodgy.  That meant that after one night of being brutalised by bloody bedbug buggers, we were forced back ...

The next day, feeling a little worse for wear we get a bus back to Mexico City which takes only 6 hours despite landslides on the roads and it being a holiday. We're back to Hostel Amigo.  We go for the evening stroll to find all the protestors had ...

... houses give the place a kind of European feel, although the earthquake damaged pavements tell you that you are, in fact, still in Mexico. The first night was spent doing that most Mexican of things - going to the pub to stand at the bar talking about ...

... for me, we met Katrina and Edgar in a place called the Condessa.  Apparently this is the Camden/Portebello area of Mexico city, all bohemian and artistic and too cool for school kinda people.  It´s beautiful, lots of parks and green ...

... . Today was one of the hilights that I had been waiting for.  I went to visit the national anthropological museum in Mexico City.  I around early in the morning and stayed about four hours going through the first floor which was dedicated to ...

... and creative. "I paint self portraits because I am the subject I know best." - Frida Kahlo Dane and I went to Coyoacan, a charming suburb of Mexico City, to visit her house, which has been turned into a museum after it was donated by her husband upon ...

... into the central square, the Zocolo, to be greeted by the world's largest ice-rink, a little surreal in T-shirt weather. Mexico City has a bad rep as crime-ridden and traffic-plagued, but it´s a place which grew on me. Great street ...