mexico city | Cohn-zone

Greetings from Mexico City.. again.. Diane and I are now hanging out in a hotel near the airport as we await our early mornign flights in opposite directions.> She’s going North back to Vermont and I’m heading South to Argentina.

We’ve had a really wonderful week together here in Mexico. the people here are so warm and friendly.. as I’ve been saying all week.. they just radiate love.. .. the foods been good, the scenery has been really nice.. and we’ve gotten in some very much needed relaxing.. Doing ‘nothing’ is not something either of us do very often.. and it was nice to get that in as well..

Last night we had a late dinner and did a little walking around Cuernavaca.. we came across this great scene, a crowd had gathered to watch Mexico vs Columbia for the jr world quarterfinals on large LED screen set up in the town square.. I caught sight of all these folks totally still,. bathed in green light.. it looked like something out of strange encounters.

This mornign we woke early and headed back in to town to see a little more of Cuernavaca.. We checked out the Cortes Castle.. the sometimes home of the Conquistador Hernan Cortes.. A man with mixed reputation here.. The house .. or castle is built on the site of an ancient Nahal (?) temple.. The place now houses a really nice collection of precolumbian to modern artifacts and art..

Afterwords we walked up to the Jardin Borda.. the one time summer palace of the Mexican Emperor Maximillio Habsborgo .. It is now a modern art museum and public gardens.. Very beautiful !

By that time is was approaching noon.. and we had to head back to the city.. we walked back to the hotel.. checked out and caught a cab to the bus station. We took another one of Mxicos really nice busses up to the mexico city airport.. the US needs busses liek this.. clean, comfortale, with videos, drinks and snacks.. the two hour ride passed wuickly

Once here we called my freind Javier to see if he and his girlfriend Nadege wanted to meet for dinner. We were in luck .. they said yes !. Javier picked us up and we all went down to La Contessa to walk around and have dinner.
It was great hanging out with them and getting to know Nadege.. she’s awesome.. and lived in Montreal nearby us for many years.. (without us knowing it, of course).

It was a really nice evening.. it’s always good to make new friends..