Thanks SO much to John Kramer, Susan Kramer, Emma Butler, Molly Blakemore, Ceil Carey, Monica Carey, Alecs Montes, Erin Johnson, Tamar Hayrikyan, David Hayrikyan, Bob Stone, Fernando Sánchez Cuadros, Fernando Mata Rosas, Anais Martínez, Maria & Chris Anderson, Susan...
The New Roma Guide — Coming Soon!
Hey Readers, If you like this blog you will LOVE my upcoming guide to living in the Roma. I need your help to make all these hours of research and writing pay off. Please help me raise money to...
The Best of Breakfast – La Roma
Now that my guide to living in the Roma is in its final stages of editing, I’ve had several people ask me…. “So what is the best ___ in the Roma?” I have eaten in so many restaurants, gotten...
Mapping La Roma
After months working on my guide to living in my neighborhood, I know that mapping La Roma is a project of mammoth proportions. I have been diligently marking down tiendas de abarrotes, drycleaners and internet places for months, in...
Seven Quiet Corners in the Roma
I find that as much as I love this city, its noise and chaos can get overwhelming. While working on my upcoming guide to the Roma I have stumbled across some incredibly quiet places, tucked down passageways and off side...
Eating Vegan in Mexico City
So I had four house guests recently, two of whom are vegan and one of which is vegetarian. I had conveniently forgotten this little culinary habit when planning what I would do with them while they were here. I...
Discovering the Polanco Aviary
While ambassadors are chauffeured to their offices, upscale tourists shop on Presidente Masaryk and office workers of all stripes flood the streets of Polanco, dozens of parakeets are quietly feasting on sunflower seeds, parrots are calling back and forth...
Mexico City Day Trips: Nevado de Toluca’s Chilly View from the Top
Whether you live in Mexico City or are just visiting, you should try to make it out to see the Xinantécatl volcano, better known as the Nevado de Toluca. According to the official government site of the city of...
Russian food and old bones in Santa María de Ribera
I know it sounds lame, but I have never seen a dinosaur skeleton up close and personal before. So when we walked into the National Geology Museum in colonia Santa María de Ribera and I saw that giant mammoth...