Days 45 & 46 - Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th November 2005

After a journey that took me about 10 hours, 4 to get to Puebla and then 6 to go from Puebla to Oaxaca, I needed a beer. Thursday night drinking is for winners after all! When I arrived in town I was looking for somewhere to stay & I bumped into one of the girls with whom I had been on the trip to Teotihuacan the Saturday before. She told me where she was staying & the price ($70 Pesos/night) and I thought it was as good a deal as I was going to get, so she took me there.

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Day44 - Wednesday 2nd November 2005

At the start of the trip, there was a comment left on the blog from a girl named Karina offering me a tour of Xalapa if I ever made it that way whilst in Mexico. It so happened that Xalapa is only an hour away from Veracruz by bus, so I decided to make the most of the offer and take it up.

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Day 43 - Tuesday 1st November 2005

I caught the bus to Veracruz on the Gulf coast in the morning, and arrived after lunchtime. I quickly realised there wasn’t much going on in the town and that I was going to struggle to find things to do. It reminded me a bit of Felixstowe where I used to work, with not much happening and a stiff breeze blowing in from the coast!

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Day 42 - Monday 31st October 2005

I wanted to get out of the hustle of the big city as I had about as much as I could take so I caught a bus to Puebla, a town about 2 hours away. The town didnt have a hostel so I checked into a hotel and set out to see what the town had to offer. The local speciality is Chicken Mole (thats pronounced mo-lay - I wasn’t eating a mole) and I went to a local restuarant to sample it.

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Day 41 - Sunday 30th October 2005

Sunday is musuem day. The supposed biggest and best museum in Mexico City is the musuem of anthropology, so thats where I went first! After catching the Metro over there I got off and walked through the Basque de Chapultepec, Mexico City’s largest park.

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Day 40 - Saturday 29th October 2005

When I woke up I wasn’t sure if I was going to have another day of walking the streets, or whether I was going to go on another tour, this time to the archaeological ruins of Teotihuacan. I mulled it over at breakfast and chose the archaeological site. It turned out to be a good decision despite a slow start.

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Day 39 - Friday 28th October 2005

The hostel I was staying in - Hostel Moneda - ran two free tours. One of those was a walking tour of the historical centre of the city. I decided to go on this as it would give me some insight into the history of the city, and its Aztec roots.

The tour began from the hostel which lay on Calle Moneda. This street is where the money of Mexico was first printed, and more importantly, the location of Mexico’s first cantina.

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