Well as is my usual rubbishness at updating you all I am sitting writing about Mexico in an internet cafe in Midtown Manhattan! And there is a whole lot to write I tell you, but I have to be careful what I say as we are making a formal complaint to a certain company called BRITISH AIRWAYS, or BA, or Biggest @rseholes, or Blatant Arrogance, or Behaving Appallingly, oh there are so many more words I could use to describe these useless idiots but I'm sure you would rather hear about Mexico. We shall come onto BA later. I recommend a name change to CA and add an additional NT on the end and adopt a very strong London accent and I think you know what I'm getting at. But enough of that. Back to Mexico, which is in Central America but comes under North America but should actually be in South America if you know anything about Mexico!
So, first of all let's begin with the food rant. Before I went to Mexico my favourite food was Mexican. Now it isn't. I was so disappointed with the food in Mexico now I know that any country that is Spanish speaking is going to have a fixation with eating our porcine friends, and I accept that and I know you're probably sick of me talking about it, but really there are other things to eat, like vegetables for instance! Apart from guacamole, and limes, we really struggled to find many vegetables in a lot of places we visited, and we are not the type to stick to the beaten path we do make an effort to search out those places that are supposed to be special.I got really fed up with food in Mexico, and I know that this is culinary blasphemy but I am going to say it anyway - I preferred the 'Mexican' food I have eaten in the UK to any I had in Mexico proper! Well stuff me into a quesadilla I don't care it's true! I still love guacamole but if I ever have to eat another bland uninspiring dish like the enchiladas and soups I had in Mexico then I would rather go without! And oh my god please please 'sin jamon' or I'm going to kick off! Everything comes with pig. Just because it doesn't say pig on the menu it will still come with it, and even if you ask for it without, it may still come with it. Both D and I tried a few dishes with fish/chicken but none were spectacular. If I visited Mexico again I would be looking to stay in a place with a kitchen so I could cook some decent healthy food - that's if I can find any vegetables anyway.
Our time in Mexico was very hectic and we knew it would be so. What we didn't plan on happening was losing two days of our limited time there due to incompetence on the part of BA(h!) We tried to fit a lot in - there is so much to do in Mexico it is absolutely huge and has tons of sites and varied places - one could easily spend six months travelling around here. And it is cheap - hurrah - a place we could finally be a bit more extravagant and still be within budget. Or at least we would have been if we had not have been screwed over by BA. Are you sensing a pattern here? Good. SO yes it is very cheap here or it was it is about 200 pesos to ten pounds. Getting a taxi about is no problem we read and were told lots of horror stories about taxis in Mexico - don't hail one, only go in a huge expensive yellow one, etc etc, but actually we had no major problems apart from some of them trying to rip us off and this even happened at the airport but by this stage we were wise to their canniving ways. Just know approximately how much it should cost and set a limit and that's what we stuck to. Also the driving is absolutely crazy there the funniest and scariest we have experienced on our travels so far.
Ok I have another confession to make I am only just continuing the rest of Mex blog sitting in a hotel in Flagstaff good old USA but things have just been rather hectic I'm sorry also D hogs our laptop a lot so I can only get to go on it when he has finished. I will have to keep the rest of Mex summarised for now but I will update accordingly! So...I've had a rant about food now onto the trip. We started off in Mexico City staying in the district called Centro Historico which is the old town full of huge picturesque buildings and divey shops. It is a very busy area always packed and not a lot of tourists - we got stared at a lot. It got rather irritating but it's just one of those things one had to try and ignore. We stayed in Hotel Catedral which was a basic budget hotel a bit divey but clean and friendly. There really wasn't as much as we expected going on in this district most places were shut by 9 or 10pm but we used it as a base to do the tourist stuff. We went on an open bus tour which took about 3 hours it was very good it gave a really good history of the city driving about to all of the different areas like Condesa and Polanco. We also visited the Teotihuacan Pyramids a bus ride away from the city which were rather nice but unspectacular compared to the other places we went to on the Eastern side of the country.
Right I am afraid i just cannae be arsed with Mexico for now there is just too much to write please see the link below D has written loads on it I will try and update as I go along but I just can't bear it I want to forget it. Sorry.
http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/Plaza-de-la-Constituci%F3n/blog-356954.html
