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Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide: 2021
Travel tips, news, observations, and gossip from Mexico City by Jim Johnston, author of 'Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide for the Curious Traveler'.
Readers are invited to comment by sending an emai...
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Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide: July 2021
Friday, July 16, 2021
(Note: The day after I wrote this blog post there was a huge spike in Covid cases in Mexico. So who knows what the hell is going on? In keeping with the weather here the past m...
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Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide: 2020
Saturday, March 14, 2020
After reading Richard Power's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, 'The Overstory', everyone in my book club started looking at trees differently--they've been here so much longer t...
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Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide: 2018
My partner Nick is fond of saying that we don't take vacations, we travel. The 'vacate' part seems to suggest a mindless state of comfort at odds with our usual treks through the nitty gritty back str...
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Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide: ARCHITECTS OF MEXICO CITY: FRANCISCO J. SERRANO
FRANCISCO J. SERRANO (1900-1982) was a civil engineer and architect whose Art Deco and modernist buildings grace Colonia Condesa ...
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Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide: December 2021
Thursday, December 2, 2021
I'm pleased to announce my latest venture, MEXICO CITY WALKING TOURS.
The first tour I've designed is of Colonia Condesa, the area I've called home for almost twenty years. ...