Thursday afternoon, Julien left me with my bummed foot at the Selva Cafe to do some photo editing while he went running around Mexico City to find at least one of the murals Diego had painted in el DF. Some famous ones include The History of Mexico in the National Palace or El hombre controlador […]

It was time for some more Frida & Diego, so we headed to a charming neighborhood in southern Mexico City called Coyoacán to visit the Casa Azul, the house where Frida was born, where she and Diego lived the majority of the time they were together, and where Frida died. It was a 20 minute […]

Another lovely day, another lovely walk. We walked back to the Bosque de Chapultepec , this time to visit the Chapultepec Castle. Chapultepec was originally a castle for Maximiliano, ruler from Austria (who was, unfortunately for him, executed within two years time), turned president abode, turned military school, turned space observatory, back to military school, […]

Monday was a real tempete de ciel bleu (a storm of blue skies), so we took to the Historic Center again to enjoy the beautiful day and visit some places we had missed the first time around. It was, perhaps, not the smartest day to go since museums are closed Mondays, and we had at […]

On Sunday Mexico was holding midterm elections; just like in Ecuador, election-time means no drinking, and the ley seca was imposed, meaning no alcohol could be sold all weekend. Julien and I figured the anthropological museum was a safe bet for a day thought to bring minor political changes with potential major long-term implications, and […]

Dolores Olmedo was Diego Rivera’s close friend and patron. In the 1960s she purchased this house in the neighborhood Xochimilco (one of many examples of a small city swallowed up by the ever-expanding capitol), eventually turning her home into a bonafide museum to display all the art she collected. Most famously the museum, now open […]

Mexico City, or el DF (distrito federal) to which it is more commonly referred: both Julien and I, when thinking of how we would describe the city came up with some version of “big” and “busy”. This is not surprising; Mexico City has all sorts of records. Long-time holder of the most populated city in […]