Day 1

WOW. This is a beautiful city. The ride from the airport was very impressive. Nice paved highway and a nice elevated what I thought was a train. Turns out it is 18 miles of elevated bike trail. The main plaza and the surrounding churches are really pretty. After checking into our hotel (Cartesiano), we walked to the Zocalo, which is only 3 blocks away. It was about 10 pm, and the place was full of families with children, music was everywhere, restaurants around the plaza were full.. We embarked on a search for a nice place to have a small meal, and first of all a drink. We found a terrace across the cathedral with a great view of the plaza and settled there. None of the waiters spoke any English and the menu was only in Spanish so Bo had to summon all her Spanish to choose and order. We didn’t do badly – 3 delicious appetizers (chloupas, taco del amor and taquitos de mole poblano) – totally different from items with similar names served in the US. Wine from Valle de Guadalupe was also very good. We got back to the hotel around midnight and decided to check out the hip hotel bar, but we walked in and out because the blaring techno music was unbearable.