Mexico City

I Hate Travel Lists – So Here Is Mine

Part Two

Mexico City, September 2019

No one can visit Mexico City and not spend quality time with two of Mexico’s most famous personages and artists:  Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Cortés first settled and built his home within the neighborhood of Coyoacán. But is not Cortés which draws visitors, but the neighborhood’s most famous residents: 

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I Hate Travel Lists – So Here Is Mine

Part One

Mexico City, September 2019

I follow travel blogs and podcasts enough to know there is little originality in lists. 

For decades, I have wanted to visit Mexico City. Though I traveled several times to the Yucatan and along the west coast of Mexico, I never made it to the “big city.” I’ve had connecting flights at MEX, enough to realize its air quality ranked somewhere beneath LA in the best of times, or Beijing about any time. I had a week free this month, so I invited a friend to join me in a few day’s exploration.  

So, though I generally eschew travel lists, here are the things I loved, and a couple I disliked, about Mexico City. 

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By Pat, ago