Blogs from Plaza de la Constitución, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, North America - page 2

30th July. Arrived Mexico City late afternoon City of a million taxis, green VW Beetles. Huge, huge and very fast and busy. Very little English is spoken. Hotel Mallorca is near a park (Monument of Maya or something) which is a shanty town of tents and tarps. Witnessed a nude dancing demo there. Was told by the only person we found to speak English that the lefty political party hire these people to demonstrate about anything and everything. Bit knackered, not used to the altitude yet. Hotel had no maps, so a bit of a wasted first day really. Day 2 went to Teotihuacan pyramids Tour of Teotihuacan, an ancient civilisation from 150 BC - 650 AD. At the tourist shop we were shown how the Mexicans use the Madre (agarve) cactus. At 12 years old, ... read more

Good day loyal fans of mine, fear not, here comes the latest thrilling installment in the tales of Lizzie´s Mexican Adventure (on a computer that understands apostrophies!!) Wow-wah-woo-wah! Firstly, boring camp stuff...actually not so boring! We have graduated from Matias´school of raking, after whinging to James when he came about how boring it is, and have now been promoted to...PAINTING! So we´ve spent the last month´s Wednesdays painting over the old peachy pink in...more peachy pink! Still not quite finished and I´m scared of the tall ladders, actually I´m scared of the small ladders, I don´t really want Mexico to be my country of death, so I´m leaving that up to Becky. A bit more exciting but still on the painting front, the Doc decreed last Thursday that the Becarios were to rake the area between ... read more

So much for the detox in Mexico..... Anyhow im in Guatemala at the moment... Panajachel next to the lake Atitlan studying Spanish....doing very little progress but oh well its a beautiful little place to be stay for a while and ive been off the booze for almost 3 days...wow!!!!... read more

Mexico City, El Ciudad, has 22million inhabitants, a fantastic Metro system, lots of good food and fantastic activities. Every store, restaurant and street vendor has a turned on TV watching either soap or the beautiful game. Most sidewalks in the city are covered with street vendors, selling anything and everything, leaving only space for single file walking, if that. The Hostel Mexico City, on Republica de Brasil No.8, email: reservacions@mexicocityhostel.com is squeezed between a Chinese Buffet and a camera shop, just steps away from the Zocala or Plaza de la Constitucion, creating the centre of the city. This square is proclaimed one of the biggest squares of the world, according to the Turistico info. On one side stands the Metropolitan Cathedral, the biggest in Latin America, behind an iron gate. The inside of the cathedral ... read more