Mexico City Marriott Reforma Hotel

... traffic jam and going nowhere. I would have fallen asleep except other boats kept crashing into the side of ours. On the train on the way home a local woman started chatting to me. After a while she invited me round for tea the next day. The locals are so friendly and I think it´s partly because there don´t seem to be very many tourists - everywhere I went I seemed to be the only gringo. Unfortunately I had to turn down the offer of tea as were leaving town the next morning.<br><br>So ...

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 ...

... cars were being redirected though by police. Following the map we took a left and instantly we caught site of 6 enormous light beams about a mile straight ahead piercing into the gloom. This had to be the Zocalo. Cars were no longer around us as they had been prevented from entering this road. It was eerily calm. Then in front of us we could see thousands of Mexicans pouring out of the square towards us. Six lanes of road packed with festival goers. The initial worry of being ...

... Mal, den Film "The Golden Compass" sehen, was zwar etwas langweilig ist, uns aber beim Spanisch-lernen hilft, denn jedes Mal verstehen wir etwas mehr. Es ist mal wieder Wochenende, und wieder ist die Hauptstadt auf den Beinen, um sich in den Parks der Stadt zu vergnuegen. Wir treffen uns mit Adria, einer Ex-Kollegin von Sandra, eine Mexikanerin, mit der sie einige Zeit in London gearbeitet hat. Sie ist nun wieder zurueck in Mexiko und kann uns noch ...

... embassy which was interesting as we were require3d to fill out new forms in Spanish ( the ones we got in USA in English off the website were not acceptable). Luckily a lady not of the Embassy helped us with the transaltion as the emabssy lad at the desk did not assist us. We did a lot of walking on Monday and Tuesday we moved to a new hotel and basically crashed in the hotel room all day till4pm. We realised since leaving Australia we had ...

... in the back of the bus next to the stinky restroom. In Zitacuaro we took a brief break in the station before our next bus ride, giving Sophia a chance to run around and ride a coin-operated car. We then hopped on a local bus for an hour to Angangueo, passing coniferous forest and signs for the monarch butterfly sanctuary. Sohia stood next to me in her seat dancing to the Mexican music playing on the stereo. We reached Angangueo, a ...

... wide as the Amazon with smoke billowing from my nostrils on every seventh step, or at least that's the way it will go down in the history books. <br><br> Little did I know that while I was making a fragrant sacrifice to the Gods of the Sun, they began to smile back quite heavily with the UV-B rays of appreciation. So great was their joy that they sent their rays through the cloudy sky to be enjoyed by all of the Vitamin D deprived individuals lurking around ...

Turning left at Zihuata...that place, we headed up the mountain road toward Mexico City. The road was mental, forget Highway 1 in California, keep your Cat and Fiddle Pass, this was something else. Turn after turn all day we fought landslides, rogue donkeys and motion sickness, to come away with the best ride ever. So good that we didn´t want to stop to take pictures, so you´ll just have to take our word for it.

... They also practiced decapitation but whether there is a connection was not discussed the materials I could read. The Toltecs grew out of the earlier peoples in the valley of Mexico and founded Teotihuacan with very impressive buildings including the temples to the moon and to the sun, each marked by substantial human sacrifice. The temple of the sun had children sacrificed at each corner and some 90 warriors. This is thought to indicate a ...

... at gate E1. I was waiting at gate E2. Eventually I realised perhaps either Mum had already been singled out for an intensive body search, or I was at the wrong gate - so I walked the whole 10 metres to the gate next door just as Mum was trying to figure out how she could get in touch with me via the phone system here that even I haven't dared to meddle with. So, united at last, off we went to the Metro and to the hotel. We stayed in ...