Holiday Inn Plaza Dali Mexico City

... get smased on red wine and whisky and talk very loudly to me. The Indian one decided to tell me the history of the Taj Mahal. While I´m sure that is a fascinating subject, it´s not esepcially useful during a flight to Mexico. Luckily they both soon slipped into wine induced comas and left me to watch the **** selection of films. Unfortunately the one next to me later woke up, and discovered the music channel on the in flight entertainment system. He then proceeded to ´dance´in his chair ...

Se all'andata ci siamo concessi un hotel con qualche stella, per la fase finale siamo approtadi ad un ostello.<br>Il letto è piccolo, una piazza e mezza stringata, ma il lenzuolo è ancora più piccolo! Un francobollo di cotone. Ci organizziamo dividendoci lenzuolo e coperta, almeno riusciamo a coprirci.<br>Oggi pomeriggio la piazza è piena di gente per i festeggiamenti del giorno dei morti, ci sono gli indios che fanno le loro danze rituali davanti ad altari decorati; molti ...

... joint for a snack, which was full of locals as always. We then walked along Mexico´s most famed street, Av. Reforma, and checked out the monuments to the struggle for independence from Spain in 1810 and the Land Reform Revolution in 1910, what´s going to happen in 2010? We walked all the way back into the main Zocalo to meet up with our friend Shani, an Israeli traveller that we met in Tulum. We wandered around the city some more and ...

... City) This is one of the biggest squares in the world..it has huge significance political,historical and is the symbolic centre of the city now saying this every city has a zocalo(means centre) and everything goes off from there.What was particularly funny on this day that we were there is that the government is building a massive skating rink lol lol the mexicans find it embarassing and maddening due to the fact that other revelant issues have not been ...

Al parecer estoy salada, y es que ya habiendo planeado mis vacaciones resulta que un huracán, Douglas, ataca el Pacífico. Ya debería haber asimilado que entre más planeo las cosas pueden salir peor, pero bueno. Sólo me queda esperar que Douglas, que ya está reducido a depresión al norte del pacífico, muera de muerte repentina. Hace unos años que me tocó alerta de ciclón en Manzanillo llovió tres días y al siguiente amaneció como si nada ...

Went to see the Police playing Live at the Estadia Fora Sol, and it was AWSOME! After almost getting lost along the way, We arrived just after the concert began and scored good seats from a scalper for $35 each! After walking in, we purchased two double cups of Sol for $6 each, and headed for our ...

... in any other country. <br><br>The hostel was at just walk distance from Reforma avenue and from the Chapultepec forest. So we decided to go to chapultepec first. <br><br>It's a huge park with several museums, cultural activities, a zoo and a lake. It also connects places like Auditorio Nacional, stadiums and the more expensive night clubs. <br><br>We decided to ...

... terrible hardships suffered by the indigenous people. - the La Condesa neighbourhood: a mix of restaurants and bars that spilled our on the streets and were full of after-work drinkers. This is definitely where the cool kids hang out. - Starbucks: yes, it has found its way to Mexico City and, fully alive to the fact that we were selling out, we enjoyed drinking strong coffee and fraps in a vibrant "coffee bar" setting. - the Metro system - it was clean, fast and ...

... it though ;) I planned to go to Plaza Garibaldi for mariachi but Janet and Mom weren't too interested after <br>hearing that the area wasn't too safe at night. We had dinner at Cafe de Blanca but the food was just disappointing and expensive! My mole tasted bitter and very spicy :'( The bread was so expensive and not good as usual. We also ordered a papaya juice which tasted more like water for over 20 pesos! We ...

... to Frida Kahlo,s (no apostrophe on this bloody mexican keyboard) house. The house had a really nice garden and some original paintings. Also info about her life which was interesting. AFter this, we went to the suburb of Xochimilco which means floating gardens. Hundreds of years ago, the aztecs built isands on a lake with canals between them. The islands were used for agriculture and the canals were used to transport food to the city centre ...