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Mexico City

Day Tripping from Mexico City

July 8, 2017 Leave a Comment

St Bernadino Church

We spent some time taking short jaunts from Mexico City itself. Xochimilco Xochimilco is the only area near Mexico City to retain a network of free-flowing canals. This, combined with its abundant greenery, hundreds of scenic “floating” flower nurseries (on plots of land created by soil piled atop extensive vegetation, and a fleet of colorfully-painted, […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Featured-City, Mexico, Mexico City, North America, Travel, Xochimilco

Taxco, Mexico

July 7, 2017 Leave a Comment

Taxco houses on hill

Taxco is a colonial city, cut into the side of the rugged Atatzin Mountain. It shouts its dramatic setting and its charming atmosphere of whitewashed buildings with reddish-orange Spanish tile roofs from well before you even enter the town. It gets more dramatic and charming the further you progress up the hill into the town […]

Filed Under: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Mexico, Mexico City, North America, Restaurants, Taxco, Travel Tagged With: wine tasting

Teotihuacan: the Myths and Mysteries the Aztec Empire

June 27, 2017 Leave a Comment

balloons over pyramid

While In Mexico CIty, we ventured outside of the city to various sites. The next several blogs talk about what we saw. Teotihuacan Teotihuacan is the center of the Aztec civilization and the largest, most magnificent of all Latin-American Pre-Columbian cities. We visited Teotihuacan on our last visit to Mexico City, almost 40 years ago. […]

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Mexico City Restaurants

June 25, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mexico City Restaurants While in Mexico City, we ate at numerous places Azul Historico is set in the courtyard of a beautiful Colonial building in the Historic District. Tom began lunch at this upscale traditional restaurant with a glass of Mescal. We then had guacamole with ground grasshoppers, followed with …

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A Sampling of Upscale and Hip Mexico City Neighborhoods

June 23, 2017 Leave a Comment

little horse

Like many cities, Mexico City has multiple interesting areas, each with its own character. This blog takes a brief look at some of those areas. Reforma Our exposure to Reforma was generally limited to the main street—Paseo de la Reforma. We walked the elegant avenue from the Historic District to Palenco. The area around the […]

Filed Under: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Featured-Trips, Mexico, Mexico City, North America, Travel Tagged With: Condesa, Polanco, Reforma, Roma, Zona Rosa

Mexico City: Chapultepec Park

June 27, 2017 Leave a Comment

Chapultepec is a huge park that that is situated between Polanco and Condesa in Mexico City. It is twice the size of New York’s Central Park, much of it is open land. One section, called Bosque de Chapultepec, however, contains the vast majority of the park’s attractions and attracts huge numbers of people—especially on weekends […]

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