The station icon for Garibaldi / Lagunilla (as you can see above), the penultimate in the Mexico City Metro Project series, depicts a crisscrossing of a guitar and a sarape. Why? Well, not far from the station is Plaza Garibaldi – the home of Mariachi music in Mexico City. I’ll get back to the Mariachis […]
Read moreOff at San Juan De Letran, rise to the surface and here I am – smack-bang in the kernel of the big corn of Latin America. Sheer, utter density of human traffic and stagnant mass clog the pavement, impeding the possibility and desire of an elongated rhythmic stride through the streets. It’s usually a stop, […]
Read moreShuffle out the door and I am already in the vicinity. For station # 50 the MCM Project paid a visit to Isabel La Catolica, one of two of my base stations. Today I veered to the right to the equally nearby Salto Del Agua. Situated on the main drag of the centre of Mexico […]
Read moreImagine ascending to the surface of alfresco metropolitanism, stepping into the environs of dynasties; indigenes, colonials, mestizos. Your blinking hastens in the contrasting lucidity, eyelid inverse shutter reveals rippled golden dunes and a temporary transportation takes place, a million miles – it may well be (yes and no)- to splendour of Saharan sands, sullied by […]
Read moreLas primeras fotos que verás en la galería no muestran una imagen urbana tipica de la Ciudad de México Me bajé en Cerro De La Estrella, dejé mi cámara en mi bolsillo y empecé la subida empinada por las calles suburbanas en busca del cerro que presta su nombre a la estación. No fue hasta […]
Read moreSince I came to realise, not so long ago, the immense similarity of the name of this station (UAM-I) to the name of my favourite all time Australian rock ‘n’ roll band You Am I it has been at the fore of my consciousness and I knew an MCM Project visit was imminent. I have […]
Read moreWhat child in Mexico has gone to the Alameda and not felt joyful and happy? What youngster has not felt their imagination run wild, given over to the sweetest deliriums, to dreams of blissfulness? Francisco Zarco, 1849, plaque near the station Exhale, 100 stations. Mid afternoon a storm rolled across the city. Thunder reverberated with […]
Read moreDesde la visita a Constitucion de 1917, hace 30 estaciones, no había ido por una excursión en la linea verde así que hoy decidi irme a Atlalilco para vagar de nuevo sin limitaciones. ¿Qué es tu posición normal – puño apretado o palma abierta? Una escultura justo ahí al salir de la estación me hizo […]
Read moreEsta estación lleva su nombre de la constitución que tomó efecto en 1917 y continua a ser actual hasta hoy. Un par de quesadillas – chicharron y pollo me dieron la energía para hacer el vago. Cocos, metal mexicano, Bart Simpson surfeando el techo de un pesero, un Kombi chido, mangos enchilados, mameys, una sofa […]
Read moreAn early reprieve from the day job gave me most of the afternoon to free ride the metro. The first (and as it turned out only) stop was Doctores. It ended up being the longest visit of the MCM project to date mainly because it was punctuated by a couple of serendipitous pit stops. More […]
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