Una Cerveza por favor...
Ahh. First day in Mexico City. The city of culture, entertainment and smog... No need to be a smoker here.
We arrived at the Hostel Amigo, a place with lots of backpackers, a free breakfast and currently no water in the showers. Except for the last point (which will be temporary we hope) the hostel is really good. Everyone is friendly and during the evenings there is a nice little bar serving Mexican beer for reasonable prices.
But there is no point in staying at the hostel all day now is there? We decided to take a strol around Zocola, downtown and heart of Mexico City. Many cultural spots are located around it so we're probably going to exploit our student discounts in order to expand our minds. Not with chemicals but with culture.
We saw the parlament, the great Catholic Cathedral and one of the biggest markets I have ever seen. There was no end to it. Vendors screaming frantically in order to get your attention and hopefully relieve you of the burden in your wallets... Funny thing though... Most of them were selling the same stuff. I mean, there were at least 30 vendors selling Mach 3 razor blades and even more people were selling cheap tourist souverniers. Probably we should dig around to see where the good stuff is.
Anyway. As a good backpacker it is important to respect the local culture. And is there a better way then embracing the tradition of Siesta.
Indeed a great tradition so we took a 4 hour nap in the middle of the day (to hot to just strol around anyway) and decided to hang out a little at the hostel.
Our accomodation consists of a 6 bed male dorm. Our dorm mates are Guyn from Japan, Some dude from Holland, another dude from Nepal and Jeff from Italy. Quite calm people so we counted on getting a good nights sleep. That was before...
Before we hit the bar of Hostel Amigo. Cervezas a plenty for all the boys and girls. After a couple of watery beers (read Coronas) people started buzzing about a great night club outside downtown. The Bulldog. The salespitch was pay 300 pesos (for simplicity, you can read pesos as Kronor) for general admission and you get six drinks. Also this was supposedly THE place in town where all the young people of Mexico city gather which of course meant, lots of women and lots of dancing... How could we turn down a proposition like that.
So out we went. 30 people from the hostel decided to go so we rented a couple of cabs and headed into the unknown.
The place was awesome. Crowded, lots of dancing and alot of women. They actually served a rather okey Gin and Tonic (little gin, lots of tonic but what can one expect when the drinks are included in the enterance fee.
I met a quite cute mexican girl and we danced the night away. More or less to 4 am. Micke also found a rather lovely girl to entertain with his 1337 dancing skillz.
The music was loud and the place was jumping. It was nothing less than Kick Ass.
Well, we returned to the hostel at 5 am... And went to bed... 4 hours later it was time for breakfast. Some sort of spicy taco thing... If this goes on I'm probably going to get an ulcer...
Hope everything is well with all of you back home.
Martin
We arrived at the Hostel Amigo, a place with lots of backpackers, a free breakfast and currently no water in the showers. Except for the last point (which will be temporary we hope) the hostel is really good. Everyone is friendly and during the evenings there is a nice little bar serving Mexican beer for reasonable prices.
But there is no point in staying at the hostel all day now is there? We decided to take a strol around Zocola, downtown and heart of Mexico City. Many cultural spots are located around it so we're probably going to exploit our student discounts in order to expand our minds. Not with chemicals but with culture.
We saw the parlament, the great Catholic Cathedral and one of the biggest markets I have ever seen. There was no end to it. Vendors screaming frantically in order to get your attention and hopefully relieve you of the burden in your wallets... Funny thing though... Most of them were selling the same stuff. I mean, there were at least 30 vendors selling Mach 3 razor blades and even more people were selling cheap tourist souverniers. Probably we should dig around to see where the good stuff is.
Anyway. As a good backpacker it is important to respect the local culture. And is there a better way then embracing the tradition of Siesta.
Indeed a great tradition so we took a 4 hour nap in the middle of the day (to hot to just strol around anyway) and decided to hang out a little at the hostel.
Our accomodation consists of a 6 bed male dorm. Our dorm mates are Guyn from Japan, Some dude from Holland, another dude from Nepal and Jeff from Italy. Quite calm people so we counted on getting a good nights sleep. That was before...
Before we hit the bar of Hostel Amigo. Cervezas a plenty for all the boys and girls. After a couple of watery beers (read Coronas) people started buzzing about a great night club outside downtown. The Bulldog. The salespitch was pay 300 pesos (for simplicity, you can read pesos as Kronor) for general admission and you get six drinks. Also this was supposedly THE place in town where all the young people of Mexico city gather which of course meant, lots of women and lots of dancing... How could we turn down a proposition like that.
So out we went. 30 people from the hostel decided to go so we rented a couple of cabs and headed into the unknown.
The place was awesome. Crowded, lots of dancing and alot of women. They actually served a rather okey Gin and Tonic (little gin, lots of tonic but what can one expect when the drinks are included in the enterance fee.
I met a quite cute mexican girl and we danced the night away. More or less to 4 am. Micke also found a rather lovely girl to entertain with his 1337 dancing skillz.
The music was loud and the place was jumping. It was nothing less than Kick Ass.
Well, we returned to the hostel at 5 am... And went to bed... 4 hours later it was time for breakfast. Some sort of spicy taco thing... If this goes on I'm probably going to get an ulcer...
Hope everything is well with all of you back home.
Martin
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