Peter and I went to Mexico City two years ago. It happened to be the week before Easter, when the city runs at half-speed because everyone’s on vacation. We were too, so we just didn’t wind up doing very much sightseeing. Oh, why am I making excuses? We never do much sightseeing. It’s just too [...]
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Probably just as good as Xochimilco itself is the market in the neighborhood. It was the first one we stopped into on our trip, so we just assumed it was normal. Turned out it is a slightly cooler than usual market, and man, was it bustin’ out with the food. While Peter was buying snacks [...]
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Years ago, when I lived by 36th Avenue in Astoria, there was a restaurant down there called Xochimilco. It was slightly upscale Mexican (which I now realize is just normal Mexican), and even though I couldn’t pronounce the name, I did know it was this beautiful network of canals in Mexico City. It didn’t seem [...]
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OK, let’s get this one out of the way first. It’s ridiculous and unfortunate: And this is also pretty unfortunate. But it happens to be in a very nice neighborhood. And there are other lovely combinations: Excellent subway advertisements. Only because we were in Mexico City during Semana Santa, when crowds in the metro are [...]
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