Holiday Inn Mexico City

... de parcs aussi, pas toujours bien entretenus malheureusement, les mexicains etant décidement irrespectueux des paysages et jetant leur déchets n'importe où.

Nous visitons la maison de Robert Brady, riche héritier qui voyagea à travers le monde et rapporta de nombreux objets qu'il entreposa dans sa magnifique demeure de Cuernavaca, puis le jardin Borda avec ses jolies fontaines.

I had a good flight to Mexico City on which I met a Mexican girl who told me that I was arriving in Mexico City in time for Mexican Independence day. One shock on arrival was the quite cold and wet weather. Not only had I arrived in time for Independence Day but I'd also arrived during the rainy season, and since Mexico City is around 1500 metre's high amd situated in a basin surrounded by mountains it proceeded to rain everyday and be generally quite cold. After getting to the ...

... to an aquard dinner while their parents watched and we were feeding a gang in a hope they would not stab us. Before things got any more uncomfortable we said goodbye to the parents and the young girls escorted us to the train station.
I was a bit sad when Dave went. We had spent two days together and it was nice to get to know someone again, but now I was on my own. The only two people left around the hostel were a big shot New Zealander who cared about ...

We were off the tarmac in San Antonio by 1300, thank God, as I have been starting to feel like that city is sucking the life out of me. Finally off, for a well deserved (at least in my eyes) vacation to Mexico City with Aislynn, where we have been planning to visit her extended family and do some sightseeing as well. The flight was uneventful, except for the free alcoholic beverages, which one almost feels obligated to take advantage of in these days ...

... for so much more time than we took. Luckily, we were going specifically for a few exhibits (those focusing on the Mayan & Aztec-also known as Mexica cultures)and were glad that we did. We learned a lot and were very impressed with the layout of the place as well as the condition of so many of the artifacts...well, I guess it is a museum, huh? Anyway, the place was phenomenal and even had places outside that they had set up to make you ...

... for Acapulco. Only problem was the hostel had a blackout! But luckily Lee had his trusty head torch, so disaster was averted! Then it was off to the bus station, on the metro. There were lots of strange people trying to sell us stuff, but we managed to negotiate this journey without too much trouble. Once there we had a stroke of luck as a bus was just about to leave, so we got on that and settled in for the 5hr journey to Acapulco. The bus ...

... when they had to get a bus home! Rather them than me taking the metro that late at night but it was great to meet some locals. Still feeling rather awake we headed to the upstairs bar and grabbed another big beer. Got chatting to a couple of really dumb Kiwi girls and mentioned we were going to Acapulco tomorrow and they decided to tag along. Seemed like an ok idea at the time.....