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I want to go on an old-book-finding raid of Mexico City within the next two months. Keep it simple-- Zócalo area, UNAM, Estudios Azteca (I geek out trying to map the Old West Village that appeared in tons of 60s and 70s films. Probably 99% no trace left, but all I need is to see a couple of photos in their museum.)

I prefer buses, cash, and taxis. Best food I ever ate there was at taxi driver cafes. Also never got sick at street stands, if that's a worry.

Gotta wind down some of my meds. I feel up to explaining what 8 or 9 are for, but to hell with 14.

All y'all who haven't been to Frida's Casa Azul, git ye there. I never went to the other house, the double one connected with a little walkway. Guess that's my assignment.

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9 hours ago, Tailgate said:

La Condesa is a great area. Lot’s of trees and walk to anything you need. I could eat the street food in Mexico City for every meal. 

Second La Condesa.  Far enough away from the city center, but still quick access to great restaurants and street food.  Not too far to walk to a Metro station as well.  Use the Metro during the day for getting around and switch to Uber after sundown.

I’ll keep my opinion on Pujol to myself…

 

 

 

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Got in yesterday morning. Staying in the city center, but we wandered pretty far out yesterday. This place is great so far. Not at all what I expected! Well, other than my Spanish not being nearly as good as I thought. Turns out you can’t just drop English words in randomly down here like at home

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3 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

Got in yesterday morning. Staying in the city center, but we wandered pretty far out yesterday. This place is great so far. Not at all what I expected! Well, other than my Spanish not being nearly as good as I thought. Turns out you can’t just drop English words in randomly down here like at home

Where at in the city center? We love the Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico. 

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4 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

Got in yesterday morning. Staying in the city center, but we wandered pretty far out yesterday. This place is great so far. Not at all what I expected! Well, other than my Spanish not being nearly as good as I thought. Turns out you can’t just drop English words in randomly down here like at home

We are getting in tomorrow. Trying to decide on jackets. How cool was it in the evening? Light jacket is fine?

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Just now, po elvis said:

We are getting in tomorrow. Trying to decide on jackets. How cool was it in the evening? Light jacket is fine?

If you're hiring a Uber/lyft/DiDi/taxi for travel at night they will almost assuredly drive with the windows down so it might be nice to have one.

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17 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

Light jacket is perfectly fine.

Thanks, didn’t even need a jacket last night. Short sleeve shirt was fine. Centro was crazy busy last night. Free concert in the Zocalo for an apparently big deal old school Argentinian singer Fito Paez. Kept my head on a swivel.

Uber from airport at 6 pm from Gate 7 at terminal 1. Cost was an incredible $10. It took the guy close to an hour because of the traffic. He kept going off script from his route to get around the traffic to Centro. The app has tip amounts set at 25 cents, 50 cents and 75 cents (in pesos). The most they allow to custom tip in the app is $7.50.

A little about the immigration process at the airport only because it was a little confusing to me since I was expecting to deal with an immigration agent. There are 3 lines. Americans use the left lane as well as some other countries. You make it to a kiosk where you scan your passport and look at a screen which takes a picture to compare. It spits out a piece of paper that includes information about when you got here and when you have to leave by (180 days). You must keep the paper to present when leaving the country. Then these clear doors open and you just walk thru and are on your way. I was confused because some people the doors wouldn’t open for them and they had to get in line for an agent. We didn’t have our passports stamped, just have this little piece of paper.

First 3 nights in the Centro, then we will decide where for rest of the stay, probably La Condesa or Roma Norte like everybody else.

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21 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

I wasn’t all that impressed with Roma Norte. It has a distinctly Americanized feel to it. 

Roma and a few other neighborhoods became super Americanized due to remote work. There was a whole thing about how most of the Spanish you hear in some of the neighborhoods is just the workers, bc the residents are all ex-pats working remotely 

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29 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

I wasn’t all that impressed with Roma Norte. It has a distinctly Americanized feel to it. 

Yeah we didn’t book but first three nights because we wanted to check out the neighborhoods. Will be here 6-7 weeks and didn’t want to get stuck somewhere.

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