Rob and Anna's travel adventure

Mexico City, Mexico

Anna's entry:

We were very pleasantly surprised by Mexico City! We have heard horror stories about the city with 20 millions people, but for us, except for a pair of Rob's stolen glasses by a pick-pocket in the metro, the city turned out an excellent stop. The city has tons of neighborhoods, similar to San Francisco or Seattle. Very modern, lots of excellent museums, parks, squares, fountains, etc. A lot of museums are free on Sundays, and we took advantage of that. We visited Place of Bella Artes with excellent murals by Diego Rivera, National Palace of Fine Arts with an over-whelming collection of classical art (mostly focused on religious topics as a lot of them are), and Diego River museum. In addition, we visited an exhibition of Rodin's sculptures displayed as an open air collection, which I truly enjoyed - such powerful and emotional lines, and so much passion in the work! And, of course, we visited the famous Frida Kahlo museum, also referred to as a "blue house" - due to the color she painted it in believes it would keep the bad spirits away. The museum had Frida's collection of paints, as well as it preserves the furniture, household items, letters and photographs. It also has a wheel-chars, in which Frida Kahlo spent a lot of her time while painting, lots of corsets that were used by her to help her with pain in her spinal cord after the horrible accident, and her death mask. That probably was my favourite museum - and I must admit that after visiting her place, I think that the movie Frida has been put together extremely well.
We also spent a lot of hours walking in different neighborhoods, some of them reminded us of Capitol Hill or Queen Anne in Seattle. We also stayed with a local family for a couple of days in their apartment in the writers-artists neighborhood, and it was also a nice addition for us, and helped us to learn more about the city, and current trends and attitudes. Rob had his B-Day in Mexico City as well, and we went to the Mexican Wrestling show. We have a special story about this, so I am not going into too many details at this time.
Over all, a very good impression about the city. But, we must admit that we could notice some corruption here too - for one, the traffic police will let drivers get away with pretty much any road violation as long as they (the police) are rewarded for it, so as you can imagine crossing streets here is a challenge. However, the metro is excellent, and I hear it is the cheapest in the world - only 20 cents for any ride, any line. So, as long as you keep an eye on your purse and pockets during the rush hour, you would be OK. I cold write a lot more about the city, but I think to truly appreciate it, one needs to visit. I am glad I did.


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posted by Rob and Anna @ 3:18 PM