Bienvenida a Guadalajara, home of Tequila, Mariachi and Chivas! We arrived here after a painful bus journey from Puerto Vallarta. The bus itself was very comfortable but the road was very twisty and we got stuck in traffic for a large part of the journey. After four feature length movies we were still nowhere near Guadalajara! After checking in late to our hotel we grabbed some food in the hotel where I ended up having a conversation with a drunk Chivas fan, who was in town to see the classico, Chivas Guadalajara v Club America (the biggest match in the Mexican football season). He was boasting about his teams unique recruitment policy (Chivas only play Mexican nationals). However, as I pointed out Athletic Bilbao also apply this policy (in this case only Basque players are eligible
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