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Three weeks of traveling

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The last three weeks I spend them traveling, not around the world, not on vacation, but for work, three weeks of work outside of my house, my friends, my family... it is really exhausting

First week I went to Veracruz, Ver. the port of entrance of Mexico since the time of the viceroyalty the first Spanish shelters arrived there, the last ones where located there too.

It is a nice place to be, but not on work duty and without friends.

The next week I was in Mexico City, a city full of culture, events, concerts, museums and lots of things to do, but the worst transit ever, to advanced 10km you can take up to an hour, so to move to a museum or any other cultural place you will need at leas 2 hours and lots of patience, plus carrying a camera "turist" like guy made you a clear objective to the robbers, even taxi drivers try to abuse of you by charging more, but I know the city, I know the right fares and fees so they can't fool me. That is the bad part, people is rude, and many of them try to take advantage of you. The good thing is that I was so rounded by models, in the event I went.



Then I came back to Santiago de Queretaro on saturday night, and then last week I was again sent to Mexico City, but this time at least I was staying in the nice part of the city, Paseo de la Reforma, everything next to this street is nice and clean, museums, forest, parks, castles are located in this street. But I didn't have the chance to visit anything, thanks to the glorious transit.

Tiziano Ferro Burned in Veracruz!!

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The italian pop singer that was more famous in Mexico than in Italy, actually he lived in Mexico for three years, in a symbolic act to start the carnival a carboard figure of him was burned as a representation of "Bad Luck"

Last year he said in an italian tv show that ALL mexican women where ugly and have mustache, and only Salma Hayek was pretty. Since that comment from being a number 1 hit in the record stores in Mexico he is no longer sold in stores, his music is not played at radio stations, and many radio hosts mention that no matter what EMI offers them, they are not going to play him.

Tiziano cancel his concert that year, and move it at least three times the dates, finally he arrive and many protested outside (they have nothing more to do), I actually don't think he is coming back to fame in Mexico again.

He suffer the mexican revenge, worst than Montezuma's. Another person that suffered the same was Christina Aguilera, nobody hears anything about her since her las visit to the country, whe she did stupid DIVA stuff in a live tv show. Also Monica Naranjo a spanish singer that in a Rolling Stone (mexican version) magazine said that she reinvented mexican music, because before her there was only Norteñas song (Tigres del Norte, Bronco) but she didn't count on the fact that Paulina Rubio, Thalia and others pop singers are mexicans, and have a career previous to her's. So not a single CD of her you can find on stores.

Photos

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My more recent photos are located in my albums you can see them here:



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Veracruz

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The trip to Veracruz went ok all the time... I bought plane tickets on the internet, flying from my city (Querétaro) to Veracruz is extremly expensive, like $500.00usd, but flying from Toluca cost only $100.00 and from Mexico City $170.00usd. Mexico City and Toluca Airport are on a three hour bus trip from Querétaro, I should choose Toluca, but I choose Mexico City, why, well a friend of mine was in Monterrey (600 km from Queretaro) so she arrived at Mexico City airport, and there I will meet her, in order to fly together, another friend will fly from Toluca and the others on the next day at morning from Mexico.

After a four hour trip by bus to the airport, thanks to a car accident in the road, I arrive just in time at the airport, two hours before flight, the recommended time, since all the stuff that happend in England.

The plane takes 30 minutes to arrive to Veracruz, by car or bus is between 8 to 10 hours, so I was positive to use the plane, since I was going to be only two days and two nights at Veracruz, I have to seize every moment.

We (Karina and Me) arrive on time at Veracruz, even earlier than our friend Julio that departed from Toluca, his flight was set to arrive earlier, but there where some troubles in Toluca. In the moment we arrive we feel all the heat, it's the coast, in Querétaro in summer time we have an temperature at day about 25°C (in hot days) and at night at 17°C, in Veracruz it was night and we where at 30°C.

After arriving we went directly to the Hotel Costa Inn, a really nice hotel.

We just left the baggage there put some lotion, clean up a little and depart to the night club "La Casona" my friend that lives in Veracruz didn't like it a lot, he likes electronic music, and in that nighclub they play live POP music, it was a nice club that night it was sponsored by Universidad TecMilenio (a cheap college), the band where REALLY good, and everything really cheap, the guys from Veracruz told me that the jarochos (people from Veracruz) are very trendy and that nightclubs tend to die really fast, but not "La Casona", they had clubs that lasted only two months, I think also the fact that Veracruz has a lot of clubs but not many people live there, not enough to fill them all. By the way nightclubs are really cheap (affordable and good).

The next day we prepared ourselve to go to the airport to pick up the rest of the guys, they arrive on time and we didn't have time to have a breakfast, not a big issue, after pick them up we went to diving in "Cancuncito" a part in the middle of the port where the sand is tall enough to let you walk and when the tide is low an island emerge from the sea, really cool, and something I didn't belive I could see in Veracruz, coral reef, Veracruz is a commercial port before being a tourist hot spot, so the beaches are not nice, but that "Cancuncito" place was ok, they said it was just like Cancun, not true, but it is nice.

Two of our friends taking the experience that says that Veracruz is commercial port and not touristic beach, didn't bring their swimsuits, even though I told them to bring them just in case, so we where all puting the diving stuff, and swimming ang they where bored in the boat, after a while, like an hour, we convince them to swim with clothes... We mess with them all the time about that, "so not cool to swim like that", "no class at all", that kind of stuff.

While diving we saw some sea animals, some cool fishes, at the end while trying to get on the boat again the birthday boy and myself step on some "Erizos de Mar" those animals with tons of pointy spikes that hurt a lot, don't know their name in english.

After that we celebrate the birthday in a traditional mexican birthday party, see my post about that, is below this one.

At night we went to another nightclub, the cool new fashion club in town, located in the World Trade Center Veracruz, it is called "Il Davide" (the David) the music was ok, it was latin pop of the 90's the place was really cool, and really affordable, everything in Veracruz is so more cheap than in Queretaro.

At the next morning we went to have a nice breakfast in the more traditional place in town, a place my grandfather liked to go, when in Veracruz, "Cafe de la Parroquia" so in honor of my grandfather memory I went there. In this place they serve the coffe in a special way, you have a glass with half of extremly strong coffee, then you hit the glass with your spoon and a guy came to provide milk to the top of the glass. By the way the waiter pays for your meal as you order, at the end your bill is paid, and you ou money to the waiter, weird.

After that we walk in the "Malecon" the part next to the ships and saw guys that pick up coins, I mean that you trow a coin to the sea and they swim to get it, they do it really fast.

This day we were going to do all the touristic stuff, visiting the landmarks, like San Juan de Ulua, when Mexico get its independence San Juan de Ulua was still spanish territory, years later they gave the small island to Mexico. In that Island was located the first fortress in Mexico, design to protect the port from pirates and enemies. There I bought a new hat, a four stones hat, "Cuatro pedradas" a traditional hat from Veracruz, but I lost it in the fortress.

After a tour in the fortress we went to the historical downtown, to see the oldest downtown in Mexico, since Veracruz is the oldest spanish city in Mexico. Veracruz also used to be the capital of the state, but since it was always invaded by enemies, Spanish, French and USA (twice) the goverment decided to move the capital to Jalapa a city located 100km from the coast.

After a walk in the pretty downtown I get into a fountain, it was a really hot day, this was the only solution... well our jarocho friends took us to have traditional ice cream, I notice that in all the ice cream stores they have the "Güero, Güera" sign (Blondie man, Blondie Girl), I don't like that expression since it was a racist one, now it's not, the black and indians call that way their europeans masters, but it became a tradition, according to locals, when the ice cream was sold in small carts in the streets they scream "güero, güera, nieve" some kind of marketing, and the tradition stay and they have signs with that word written all over the store.

After that we went to the lighthouse of the port, to have some pictures and near there we ate at a really nice restaurant, again really cheap and REALLY good seafood. After that we went to our friend house spend some time there and to the airport to come back to reality.

Nice weekend, hope never ended, but that is live.

Back to reality

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I'm back from the four times heroic port of Veracruz, it a beautiful city, four times heroic, because it was invaded in four different ocassions, I don't think any other city keep the count of that.

I will be posting the diary of a traveler here, right now I'm too tired, it was great to visit the beach only for a weekend, si I can now relax and return to work hard.

The best College Tradition!!

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I think the best college tradition ever is the so-called "Road trip" a trip with your friends with little or no money, to any kind of places... As a good college guy I practice it as much as possible ($$) when we are a student we call ourselves studenhunger (estudihambre) since you suffer hunger because you spent great percentage of your money in two things, school books and material (copies, coffee, library fees and stuff) and in parties (beer and chips), that is why we suffer hunger.

As a student I had road trips to several places:

-Ixtapa (beach)
-Playa Azul a beach (well we thought it was playa azul, but we are not certain, since we arrive by accident, we where lost)
-Los Azufres (forest, cabins, scary stories, crazy using mask killer... well not all of that)
-Morelia (colonial town)
-Patzcuaro (famous for it's day of the dead party... and very cold)
-Bernal (small town with the third biggest rock on earth)
-Tequisquiapan (small town with lots of water parks)
-Colon (small town with nothing to do... so bored)
-Amealco (small town with forest and extremly cold)

In all but two of those trips I was the official driver, since I am the one with a car of it's own and the one with the more experience in driving, and never crashing a car... well not a big crash.

For the first time we are no longer students, and we no longer suffer for the lack of money... not so much suffering... so we are going to do the first roadtrip by plane, so it will be called the first plane trip for the friends... I'm doing it with my friends from High school who went to the same college as me, and some college friends to the colonial-beach-port town of Veracruz located in jungle, so we are making a trip with all the characteristics of the previous trips, forest (jungle actually), beach and colonial.

Tomorrow is D day... super anxious to travel... it will be only a weekend, just like in college.
July 2008
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