From the Palacio de la Escuelar de Medicina.
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Plaza Santo Domingo
It's Fotowalk Friday. This week I decided to have a trek around Plaza Santo Domingo - map number 48. It's on the ciclothon route, but I've never stopped off there for too long, bar a breakfast a year or so ago in a cafe. It's a slightly edgy area, famous for the dozens of printers … Continue reading Plaza Santo Domingo
Mexican Service
I'm riding my bike around even more than usual lately. I've been joking that when I return to the UK I'll need to provide subtle evidence at job interviews to prove that when I say I'd been living in Mexico for the last six years, I meant I'd been living in Mexico for the last … Continue reading Mexican Service
Black Day In The City
Spring Clean
The first Jacarandas are out. Tis spring, and time for cleaning. I thought I'd start with a new look for my blog. I'm not sure it's better, but it does at least look 'fresher'. It has pros and cons. I prefer the 'comment' link to be at the top of the post, as it is … Continue reading Spring Clean
Skeletons of the Revolution
While walking around a park next to the Monument to Mothers, just off Reforma/Insurgentes, I came across a guy selling old photos. Well, new photos of old photos, if you get my meaning. Fifteen pesos each. He wanted to sell me four for forty five pesos. I offered 40 pesos for the quartet, but I … Continue reading Skeletons of the Revolution
The Sound of the City
How to pick a single sound that represents Mexico City? There are a few candidates. Some visitors might nominate the frantic, non stop tooting of the car horn. Drivers do, for sure, overuse that particular feature of their motor cars, but I've been to Cairo where the horn is sounded every five seconds as a … Continue reading The Sound of the City
The Mexile 