I’ve been challenged by a friend to write a series of guides to the different days of the week in Mexico City. While I freely admit that my insights are limited to a few areas of the city, I...
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...
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...
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...
La Merced Turns 57
The pouring rain, the noise and chaos were all worth it to see this guy: Need I say more? The band — Black Power — came all the way from Veracruz to kick off the celebration of La Merced’s...
Alvaro Obregon’s facelift
All the different neighborhood groups that the city government called together to talk about their new project, agreed on one thing – they wanted the trees to stay. “The other thing they said was bicycles,” said Rene Caro, part...