Day 3

Sweetheart,

What a day I had! But before anything, strangely enough I didn't say a word about the weather here. I must not be a true Canadian. So much sun, in the afternoon it turns around 27-28C. Not humid, just pleasant. Soft. As if it were normal.

old meet new in historic center of Mexico

So today I walked a lot : 17,8km my phone says. I returned to a museum I went yesterday because I wanted to buy the catalogue of the show I saw... After that I walked to the historic center of the city. When you see photos of old cathedrals in Mexico, this is where you find them. Stunning architecture of banks, the Palacio de bellas artes, all this mixed with modern in a wise way. I saw some Dali sculptures in a park. Well, all this was incredibly beautiful, but so many people. You could hardly breathe. 

Palacio de bellas artes

I had lunch in a very typical place here. It's on the street, it is like the hot-dog cart in Toronto but they add a counter around and some little benches. La mamita (with a drag-queen type of make-up and super long silver nails) cooks on charcoal las tortillas, enchiladas, etc, etc. She ask you what you want and than she does what she likes. After all, you are in her kitchen! It is good, very very typical, but totally impossible to eat elegantly... You need to change clothes and a shower after. What I didn't do of course.

a bank...

Dali's sculpture and a beautiful building...

Later, I met my only acquaintance in this town, Juan. He offered me to discover a part of the town I would have never seen if it wasn't of him. Coyoacan is like a small village in the town. Tons of small shops of crafts both folkloric and more design. Many bars, bakeries, restaurants partially on the street (here there is obviously no law on the number of people you fit in a place and where you sit them) and partially in beautifully designed spaces. Walking around made me discover a different architecture, these are houses anyone would move in in a blink. Trees, birds, flowers in a town that count 14M people... I also discover a new alcohol (yep, I had more to learn on that, can you imagine?) the Pulque. It is a drink made from agave, they add a flavor to it, mine was a flavor of red wine (!) and it looks a bit, at first, as if there was milk. But there is not. Refreshing, delicious. Unfortunately, Pulque is made only in a small quantities, somewhere in Mexico (the country) and has to be drunk fresh. It is a one shot deal. I was pretty lucky!

Imagine this is your home... 

Tonight will be quiet. Yesterday I went out. These people are just crazy! You have to pay as you enter the bar, a cover : 200pesos, which is about 13$. BUT! with that cover, you get 5 beers... well if you can handle it. I couldn't, I switched to water after the third. Music was crazy too. A mix of all kind of stuff from a dramatic Mexican ballade to a technotronic song by Yelle (a French singer) to german cabaret, a techno version of the famous Led Zeppelin's "A Whole lotta love", opera arias, name it. Anything but Britney or Beyoncé. In one word, not a minute to be bored. No dance floor, packed to the ceiling, a different gogo-boy every 10 minutes (they looked as if they were coming out of the crowd, they jump on the bar, strip and dance). A night to remember as much as I can!

Color of a beautiful house and a beautiful tree that blooms at this season (they call it spring ?)

It is a bit late, I think I will not have dinner (just beer and junk in a bag).

I miss you, I know you miss me, but you miss even more not being here...

xx

n.