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Day 19 – The road to Puebla (Part 1)

Hola Todos! Today we start our way south. From this point onwards we are truly in unknown territory and now anything can happen.

Chatting to those Uber drivers doing the pyramids they said there was a big protest planned for tomorrow and that from mid morning a large part of the city’s roads will be shut down so the advice was not to take the bus from the central TAPO but to go to the airport and get on the bus from there. 

Doing that I’m up and out of the gaffe for 0730 and get to the airport for around 0815. My original bus was for 1320 but I was able to change it for 1100 for no extra cost. Happy days. I had a 3 hour wait where all I really did was upload stuff into canva.

Getting on buses here you have to go through quite a strict security system, putting bags and your stuff through the metal detectors. Bit of a faf but at least you know you won’t get shanked on a bus here!

1100 bus comes on time and we are rolling. It’s a 2 hour ride to Puebla and there are some lovely views heading up into the mountains. In parts it looks very SE Asia it china like. I was impressed.

Soon we drop into Puebla and after some delays and faf getting out of the station I am at my gaffe.

I booked into a lovely little family run hostel which is more like a hotel with shared kitchen and bathroom space but they are nice and give me some good recommendations to look around.

Puebla’s old town is way more walkable than CDMX though a flash rain storm comes in and we find ourselves looking for shelter. 

I ended up meeting 2 new nice people. First was an English chap who I recognized from the bus ride. Ended up grabbing some scran and a beer with him. He was doing a similar thing to myself and headed for Oaxaca next same as me but don’t know if our paths will cross again as he is heading back up north. We swapped details and went our separate ways. Might see him later during my stay here.After grub with butty Boy I went back to the gaffe, picked up some supplies and went back and changed clothes as got soaked in the flash downpour.

Then it was night time and I do the usual thing of going round having a beer in a few different places and seeing if the RNG rolls were interesting to anyone. I go to a few places and not much happens until I end up in this microbrewery type gaffe and sit at the bar next to this lady who was drinking alone. Remembering the coffee shop experience the other day I decide to say hi and have a practice of my Spanish.

Meet new best friend Laura, this girl is pretty interesting, being a goth and really into the same kind of music I like. She is local but has been about Europe and the states a quite a lot so we end up talking about travel experiences and the challenges of learning a new lingo – she spent quite some time in France learning the Baguetteoix. Eu no parlais voux. Moron!! It was all good and ended up being a fun little evening. We swapped details and might hang out again in the next few days. She also has IG account and is a singer and vocal coach. This is her account if you want to check out her content.@lauzkruspe

After this it was time to turn in. Tomorrow is another admin day but I need to slow down a bit. Will be looking to get some of the reels done and out while they were on slow time over these next few days.