Another trip down the golden line and it was a trigger- happy affair. With the camera, that is. Old JC was there, painted on a wall near the San Andrés Church. The first thing that caught my eye was a seagull stretching its wings, in street art guise, and I set off to broaden my […]
Read moreCCTV Report: Hawkers in the Mexico City Metro
Here is another video from the series CCTV did about the Mexico City Metro. While you might not immediately notice, or notice at all, prostitution in the metro (as shown in the previous clip I posted) the same cannot be said for the ubiquitous hawkers peddling anything and everything; chewing gum, CDs, nail clippers, spelling […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 157: Periférico Oriente
This station, Periférico Oriente (Eastern Peripheral) takes its name from its location at the intersection of Avenida Tlahuac and the Anillo Periférico (Peripheral Ring). I’ve written about the Anillo Periférico before in my entry for the station San Antonio, where you can see a recently constructed, elevated ‘second level’ of the same road. I completed […]
Read moreCCTV Report: Prostitution in the Mexico City Metro
The American network of Chinese state broadcaster CCTV recently aired a series of reports about the Mexico City Metro. I will post the videos interspersed with my station visits over the next week or so. This first one is about prostitution within the Mexico City Metro. Despite being a frequent passenger on the metro, it’s not […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 156: Parque de los Venados
Off at Parque de los Venados – Park of the Deer – and after a quick walk around the Benito Juarez municipal square, boasting metallic busts of a variety of luminaries, I headed into the station’s eponymous park. I passed Francisco “Pancho” Villa and steed in statue form and all of a sudden I was […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 155: Culhuacan
Only very rarely do I conduct any pre-visit research about the stations that I visit for this project. I let the city wash over me without knowing what’s coming. I let the city surprise me. It invariably does. My research comes later. One exception was my visit to Insurgentes. I was interested in seeking out old […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 154: Eje Central
El Eje Central -the Central Axis- is a major Mexico City thoroughfare that splits the city north to south. The ‘zero emissions’ trolley buses run up and down, in the opposite direction to other vehicles, between the north and south bus terminals located near the metro stations Autobuses Del Norte and Tasqueña, respectively. Be careful […]
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LATIN AMERICA APPETITE WHETTER # 3: LAGO PETÉN ITZÁ @ EL REMATE (GUATEMALA)
Latin America has no shortage of spectacular lakes. Lake Titicaca is, I believe, the most spectacular of all. Lago de Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands is breathtaking.. The lakes of Patagonia will astound you with their colour and incredible backdrops. The list goes on. Lago Petén Itzá in the north of Guatemala is not as […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 153: Nopalera
Whilst Presidents Obama and Peña Nieto and Prime Minister Harper were discussing 20 years of NAFTA in Toluca yesterday, I made my way down to Nopalera station. Nopalera, of course, refers to the cactus from which the edible nopal pad is yielded. The area was once home to large farms dedicated to growing the nopal. However, it seems that […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 152: Mexicaltzingo
The slogan of the system is ‘el metro es……Cultura!’. I got a dose at Mexicaltzingo before I even left the station via a photography exhibition showcasing cultural events and well known Mexico City places and monuments. Included are images of thousands of naked folk in the zocalo in 2007, shot by Spencer Tunick, Paul McCartney rocking […]
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