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Hello good afternoon everyone! So today was day 14 & the first full day in Mexico, in some ways the real day 1 of this trip. 

Some of you have asked me why didn’t I just fly straight out from Blighty? Well a number of reasons, firstly when I booked the flight it was about £500 cheaper to go from Madrid than London. That saving pretty much paid for travel, food & booze minus the ferry for the entire Spain leg plus the Spanish could have done with a brush up & it had been a crazy few weeks before I got going and didn’t want to be getting here with mental health not being good. Also it has been good as several subtle mistakes were made along the way and been corrected – had we made them in a more full on place it could have been disastrous if someone made a move. No quiero dar papaya por supuesto!!

Onto Mexico city. This place is huge and moving around is quite slow and difficult but Uber is pretty cheap and you can travel round most of the inner city for around £5-10 or less. Simon and myself headed into the historic centre by the cathedral for some breakfast in this lovely colonial restaurant. El Desayuno due muy deli 😋

Simon recommended we check out this museum – el museo del Templo Mayor – the old Aztec temple and likely all that’s left that has been excavated from old Tenochtitlan, the former Aztec capital. It was about 4 quid to get in but very worth it. The outside bit is an excavation of what’s left of the temple then inside is a museum with all the things they have dug up from those times.

It’s very interesting & also the longest there you start to feel uneasy looking at all these things. The Aztecs were barbaric and more bloody sacrificing humans & animals to appease their many unpronounceable gods. If the gods were not given their due the world would end. Again deserves it’s own post to cover properly & have not had time to do but rest assured reels will be coming!

After this we headed back and had a cheeky beer to finish today’s cultural learning. 

Later we headed out for beers with Simon’s friend. Will tell you more about him on the next instalment. It ended up being a late one and we ended up in some stupid nightclub where there were more blokes than chicas but hey we got some free Tequilas out of it. Joder! Hemos bebido muchas tequilas y hoy tenemos un gran resaca! Pues cuando estes en Roma? Es lo que hay!!
I planned to go the pyramids today but doubt it will be happening probably be a blob day. Hablamos Luego!