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Published: February 8th 2008
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Greetings, saludos, welcome to my first travel blog. Call me lazy if you want but it seemed like the easiest way to keep eveyone posted on my travels, so don´t complain if u dont get an email. As most of you know I have just set off to complete my placement year for uni. After such a warm welcome in Spain I decided to take my travels to Central America, so I booked a ticket for Guatemala, with an overnight stop in Mexico City. So here the adventure begins...
After an enthralling 11 hour flight from London, watching on-demand movies and eating burnt airplane food I touched down in Mexico City and passed through the airport without a single hiccup. I was approaced by a 5ft mexican man asking if I needed a taxi, so I accepted and he led me to his chariot. Outside was an english couple that had been on my flight looking pretty lost, so I offered to share my taxi with them and they climbed aboard. I got chattin to the taximan, Ricardo, who told me he would drop them off first and that way I get a free tour of the city. He asked
if I wanted a beer after the long journey which of course I accepted, so he pulled over and bought myself and the english couple a beer each and said it was on him. We dropped off the couple at they´re hostel and he took me for a spin around the city. He showed me a couple of the major sites of the city, including the monument of the revolucion, but I couldn´t see much since it was already dark. He asked if I like girls, which of course I said yes to, and he pulled over and asked a lady of the night for her prices for me in case I felt a bit lonely. 300 pesos, about $30, plus hotel expenses, for a fat old mexican woman, eemmm no thanks mate. After about half an hour of speeding through traffic without a care for lanes, lights or other drivers, I asked him to take me to a cheap but decent hotel and he did so. I stayed the night in the Hotel de Madrid for about $50, not bad at all, cheap, clean, safe and right in the heart of the city. Ricardo gave me his card and
told me to give him a ring in the morning and he would pick me up. After a long, hot shower I jumped straight into my kingsize bed and fell fast asleep.
The next morning, after 3 breakfasts from the buffet I gave Ricardo a ring and true to his word he came and collected me. With a couple of hours to spare before check-in for my flight I asked him to take me to the Teotihuacan Pyramids, not realising that they were about 30k out of the city, but he took me anyway and promised to do it for a very reasonable price. The pyramids were very impressive, but very tall with very large steps to reach the top, so after choking up a lung at the top of the main one, I decided not to bother climbing the others. I went back to where Ricardo was waiting for me in the car park and he said I had to try the Pulque, a traditional mexican alcoholic drink made from the Maguey cactus, locally known as mexican viagra. So he took me to a wee bar right beside the pyramids where I had 2 shots of Pulque, which
tasted almost like alcoholic milk, and 2 shots of tequila. I wasn´t charged for the drinks but was asked to leave a tip. We then had to make haste to make my check-in time, so he took me straight to the airport and waited for me while I checked in. He then took me across the street from the airport to a taco stand owned by a friend of his where he bought me 3 tacos and a beer. We then went up the street to his cousins bar where he bought me another tequila to warm me up for my flight, before bringing me back to the departure lounge for my flight. We said goodbye and I promised to look him up the next time I pass through the city He told me that the next time he wouldn´t bring me to a hotel, but to his house where I can stay for free with him and his family for as long as I like. How nice!
So for then I said goodbye to the lovely City of Mexico, next stop, Guatemala...
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Merche
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Me alegro de que todo te vaya bien y de ya hayas descubierto el caracter latino americano (gente abierta y hospitalaria). Aunque despues de tu comentario sarcastico sobre mi pais en tu primer parrafo... no se como he seguido leyendo! jejeje, en fin, cuidate mucho matito.