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Mexico City transit
Mexico City trolley line and traffic on Lázaro Cárdenas Mexico City always gets a bad rap – crowded, worn, dangerous, polluted – take your choice. The stereotyping gets a little tiring. Yes, Mexico has...
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Where there’s a crowd there’s a photo
Detail of street crowd, Mexico City, 2014 (click through for full photo)I’ve always liked photographs of crowds. Cameras are great at recording a lot of detail quickly and for me they give a way of...
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Thursday evening photos, with a blast of color
Zócalo, getting ready for the Pope Usually Mexico City seems to dwarf any event, but the Pope coming has affected big sections of the city. The Zócalo (Thursday evening, 7pm local) is already all...
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The challenges of getting around
More of the city closes down I guess I had envisioned that the Pope would be travelling between discreet events in Mexico City but in truth he is doing multiple criss-crosses and in the process will...
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Feeling small in a sea of people
On Saturday I decided to go for it and head up to the Basilica where Pope Francis was celebrating Mass at 5pm. Even though we were hours early we got no where close to the Basilica, and instead had to...
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I get rolled and then penned
Beth looked reproachfully at me and said that I was being way too conspicuous, but I guess my question is how do you take pictures here without being conspicuous? I am so huge, so white, and even just...
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People power, yes and then no
The Pope has left Mexico City now and is travelling to different states in Mexico – yesterday Chiapas, today Michoacán, and then tomorrow in the lawless border city of Juárez in Chihuahua. What I...
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A (good) surprise from Africa
As the sun went down yesterday, this was the view looking down from a high perch at the entrance to the Belles Artes building. In the same building, but earlier in the week, we had seen the Belles...
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The National Anthropology Museum
I already wrote about the African show at the National Anthropology Museum, saying it was the best single art show we’ve seen in Mexico City. That show is a temporary exhibit, and is completely dwarfed...
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Flaps down and coming in
It’s a long night-time flight back to Montreal from Mexico City. When I landed part of me felt like I had just arrived on a distant planet and part of me felt at home. It’s cold, it’s monochrome, it’s...
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How different and goodbye to a Montreal institution
Since moving to Montreal in 2006 we’ve done a steady rotation of food shopping which consists of visits to an Arab-derived supermarket (Marché Adonis, now a province super-star), Kim Phat (an...
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Eating camel
I probably have the distinction of being the only member of my family ever to have eaten camel. Or is it the shame? My father was so shocked when I told him what I had done that his normally eloquent...
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In search of Auxilio Lacouture
Students reading and talking In the southern part of Mexico City, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is a 425,000 student campus with many departments. Its graduates form a backbone of...
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