November 19 – 22 Ascending from the Metro station at Insurgentes, we walked back towards the hotel on the bustling Calle Genova, crowds of folks just off work sitting at the outdoor patios of the bars lining the street, enjoying the end of the day. We decided to stop in at Aventura as we’d noticed […]
November 19 – 22 Navigating that next morning was made easier as we were to meet our tour group at the front steps of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Using our knowledge of the metro system this time around, we were able to locate a station a bit closer to the site making for a […]
November 19 – 22 We left the cathedral and walked over to the National Palace, the seat of the federal government in Mexico. This site has been a palace for the ruling class of Mexico since the Aztec Empire and much of the current palace’s building materials are from the original one that belonged to […]
November 19 – 22 We found navigating the Mexico City Metro system to be fairly easy and enjoyed traveling on it with one exception; during certain times of the day it could become unbearably crowded, the bane of any large train system. A number of times we had to almost force ourselves into a car […]
November 19 – 22 We left the Museo and found ourselves a place to sit and view the procession now coming down Ave. de la Reforma. Much to Joanna’s delight, we’d hit that portion of the parade featuring legions of horses, the riders all decked out in costumes saluting their region, or the occupation they […]
November 19 – 22 The Museo Nacional Anthropolgia, the largest and most visited museum in Mexico, is located in Chapultepec Park, one of the biggest city parks in the Western Hemisphere, measuring just over 1,695 acres (Central Park in NYC is 842 acres, Griffith Park in L.A. is 4,300 acres). Centered on a rock formation […]
November 19 – 22 We arrived home from Egypt the afternoon of the 17th and spent the rest of that day and the next doing laundry, opening mail, and taking care of the few things we could do in that short time frame. The next thing we knew, we were on our way to LAX […]
November 6 – 17 After lunch, we arrived at the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan and Mosque of Al-Refaei (Royal Mosque) both located at the same site. Our first stop would be at Sultan Hassan, which along with its Madrassa (Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious, whether for elementary instruction or […]
November 6 – 17 We left for the train station and after arriving sat in a café nursing a cold drink until departure time. Boarding and finding our sleeper berth now seemed familiar and we settled in to wait for dinner, which would be similar to that we’d been served on the way to Aswan, […]
November 6 – 17 A short ride later we arrived at the house for our lunch. As in Aswan, here the street in front was not paved, dirty and dusty; likely the lack of rain makes this tolerable as you don’t have to deal much with mud. Inside though, the house was nicely decorated and […]
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