Mexico City, day 3

The street just outside our Airbnb apartment

Highrise buildings

The Palacio de Bellas Artes, a theatre & museum

View of the theatre from the 8th floor cafe in the Sears store across the street.

A mural by Diego Rivera, now housed in its own building

We visited the Museo de Arte Popular, featuring Mexican folk art.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with traditional Huichol beadwork (2.3 million beads)

Teatro Metropólitan, originally built as a cinema

Hotel building

Late lunch, soup & enchiladas

Mexico City, day 2

We've seen this in a few places in Mexico. The garbage pick-up crews sort through everything they have picked up right on the street. Not a pleasant job!

Our current favourite morning coffee shop

Saturday is flea market day

Fitness class in the park

Jacaranda tree

Green wall on the side of an office building

These are all over Mexico City. Apparently they have been at it for a hundred years.

An Art Deco office building built between 1929 and 1932

Interesting architecture

Iglesia de San Francisco

Dancers on the main square

Catedral Metropolitana

The Palacio de Correos de México, still an operating post office

An Art Nouveau entrance to the Bellas Artes Metro station. The entrance was a 1998 gift from France.

Provide free WiFi the park and this is what you get.

We met up with Andrew, a friend from Victoria, BC and had lunch in Mercado Medellín in our neighbourhood.

Tortilla soup

Chicken mole

Parque México

Interesting building

Travel day to Mexico City, Mexico

Packed up and waiting for our ride to the airport

Leaving the gate at Manzanillo airport

Takeoff


Descending over the outskirts of Mexico City

Taking a taxi from the airport into town. These are nervous smiles ... our driver had road rage problems!

Our Airbnb apartment is on the second floor

Supper

Lots of beautiful parks