Mexico City, one more time!Unfortunately, the "easiest" way to get around Mexico CityMexico City is a constantly changing mishmash of culture, food, people, and of course, traffic. People complained about traffic in Rome recently, but it was quaint 1950's vintage postcard traffic compared to Mexico City's life changing (and threatening) daily commute. Tuck your money in your shoe and take the subway, trust me.But once you pop up out of the ground like a big touristic gopher, you can find insulated pockets of calm and quiet such as the Sanborn's downtown in the historic Casa De Los Azulejos. You can just imagine yourself rolling into the big central court in your horse drawn carriage and climbing up to the second floor in your best Pride and Prejudice wear for an intimate formal dinner for fifty. The details that survive the hundreds of years despite the daily onslaught of tortillas boggles the mind.Even Mexico is not immune to the faux craze of tile and plastic imitating real wood.Of course, wood could hold the odor of freshly cooked tripas, so maybe that's not a bad idea.....The Courtyard in Sanborns, downtown Mexico CitySanborn's ceilingCome for the building, stay for lunchParquet floor holding up in SanbornsOrozco mural in Sanborns AzulejosPOZOLE!TRIPAS! ummmm.....ewwwDo you really have to fake it that hard?Now isn't the real thing better?Posted by JR Huebinger on 21st January, 2016 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks | PermalinkCategories: architecture, travel, Mexico, history, urbanTags: mexico, history, urban life, historic preservation, historic
