Hilton Aeropuerto Ciudad De Mexico Mexico City

... les jours. Il parait que cest pire durant la fin de semaine en plus... Et cest comme ca dans toutes les rues partout dans la ville.

Cest un tres bon hasard que je sois arrive ici durant les celebrations entourant la Vierge de Guadalupe. Marie a apparu dans une montagne pas loin dici, et a demande a un frere et lui a demande de construire une coupe deglises sur la montagne pour elle. Les eglises sont la et elles sont remplies a pleine ...

... Sunny Delight, cafe and cup of fruit.
Landing in Santiago did not appear to be anything. I could not see a town or much. Not many trees. Mountains though.
So, Santiago was where we needed to leave and get my bags, but upon going through customs, we were told we have to pay the reciprocity fee of $131 dollars each just to go get my bag and take a flight. I was defeated but Nick was ...

... at last and had a couple of Tacos for about 50p each, delicious. After an afternoon kip I signed up to go on a Mexican Wrestling trip, it had to be done. I was pleased to discover that the Mexican bed snatcher, Fernando, was going, along with a French girl and 2 Spaniards who had just moved into the room. They got a couple of rounds of tequila which I assumed were the free ones included in the tour price but then they said lets go and turns out they were going independently ...

Well having been here a few days now and fully settled in to my new lifestyle I'm pretty content with how things are panning out!
Having to endure a 10.5 hour flight in a middle seat to kick things off wasn't ideal so lots of red wine was the only suitable way to get round that. The result was a very early night when i got here..

My first day involved a bit of a walk round the city before i met up with Alessandro for ...

... is a huge flag pole from which hangs a equally enormous Mexican flag which tells you under no uncertain terms where you are. The Spanish must have leveled this city when they arrived as you can not deny the characteristics of all the structures, which almost feels like, a much larger version granted, plaza major in Madrid.
The only thing really left of the Aztecs regards architecture are the ruins of one of the temples that sits right behind the large catholic cathedral which must ...

... in 1978 during some digging for foundations. It turns out the entire historic area of Mexico City is built right on top of an even more historic area, the Aztec city of Tenochitlan, which flourished for 1000 years before the Spanish arrived in 1521. The foundations of the old pyramid are still well intact which was quite amazing. The locals, and there were a lot of them, were really friendly and when they heard us attempting Spanish, sometimes miserably, they ...

... going to rain anymore today. Why I didn't just turn around then I don't know. We got on our three boats and headed off. And then it started. Drip, drip. Plastic sheeting was distributed to people on the other two boats. We didn't have any. Two spare sheets were passed to our boat and Michi and I tried to protect our camera. Then it chucked it down and we got drenched in about 30 seconds. I did have the good sense to take my Gore-Tex with me, but sadly Michi hadn't ...

... pour le visister, a chaque region du mexique correspond une salle. Le soir nous partons pour une soiree "lucha libre", c est un sport super populaire ici, en ait c du catch avec des costumes et des masques. Fin de soiree dans un bar a mariachis 3 eme jour: visite de teotihuacan 4eme jour: visite de templo mayor et son musee, la cathedrale, ses tours et ses cloches.

... and he loved it in fact we had difficulty getting him out of the water because he was having such a good time! It was so nice to see the smile on his face! Ice skating was so much fun, the boys were helping me to skate as many of you know skating is not my strongest point. At one stage I had a boy on either side of me escorting me around the ring and I made it without falling over, yeah! It was so nice for them to help me as usually it is the other way around. Now I will tell you ...

... the morning walking round the huge mall, and if i remember correctly, none of us bought a thing! Next stop was Silvia's university where Adam and I pretended to be Mexican students and used the library internet whilst we waited for Silvia. She came back after an hour with another friend named Ashley who offered to take us back to her house. She lived in this HUGE luxury apartment building with facilities beyond the normal. She had a huge gym, swimming pool, tennis courts ...