For a while, I used to do a trip like this recent one to the Mexican capital every year. After choosing a city, I would spend a week there solo, just walking miles every day with my camera and seeing the sights. No other experience gets me to forget any of my day to day … Continue reading Wandering Mexico City
Local legend holds that a man living on an island in Mexico City’s Xochimilco district began hanging dolls around his property as a way of appeasing spirits after finding a dead girl in a canal. The island would gain notoriety as filming location for a popular movie in 1943, and the man would go on … Continue reading The Island of the Dolls
Mexico City sits largely on the former site of a lake that once covered most of the Valley of Mexico. Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, sat on an island in the middle of this lake until it was conquered by the Spaniards, who then set about draining the lake. The Aztec capital became … Continue reading The Canals of Xochimilco
It has been about six months since I visited Mexico City. Since then I have thought a lot about how much the Germans seem to dislike tailors, a profession they apparently thought entirely run by miserable wretches. The German word for tailor, schneider, can be used in idioms such as “er ist ein Schneider” which … Continue reading La Biblioteca Vasconcelos
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