If you want to contact me please use email for now

I thought i was being clever when i brought an old cellphone with me, since i didnt want to get
robbed due to having an expensive phone. Well, turns out i outsmarted myself. The networks
here work on a different frequency than Europe, so even though its dual band, it wont work in
most of the countries in Central and South-America. I expect to have a connection in Guatemala, but i wont be there for another 2-3 weeks...So, please send me emails not sms:)

Just a few observations...

The subway in MC actually runs on tyres. If you think this helps with the vibrations, think again.

Mexicans seem to have an unhealthy relation with hairproducts.

Saw a man trying to sell two puppies at a tollstation. He was standing in the middle of the road with one in each hand waving them at passing cars.

In some catholic churches nuns are apparently also vendors, selling various religious paraphernalia.

Safety first!

I have never seen so many police, security guards and traffic police as in Mexico City. Every store seems to have its own guard or two, even McDonalds has a guard. The record stands at five! 5! traffic police in one paltry intersection. One small two-way intersection, nothing special about it. Two were doing one way, and three were doing the other way. All doing the same thing, just waving the traffic on...

First few days in the big city

One word, Huge! Mexico City is enormous. You can`t really appreciate the size until you see it from the air. Situated in what is now a valley which used to be a lake before the spanish drained it, MC is home to between 20 and 25 million people. Nobody knows for sure how many. The largest poor suburb is home to about 2 million alone, and is a landscape of wall to wall concrete housing, most situated far up the slope of surrounding mountains. Dotted inbetween the countless grey "buildings" are a few painted ones, apparently only a few can afford to paint their home.
"A small part of the city."



The central part of the city is actually very nice, much nicer than i imagined it. The infamous traffic isn`t so bad as i thought it would be, and the pollution is tolerable even though it certainly blocks the view of much of the city. There are many museums to visit and countless colonial style buildings. Unfortunately, since the water table is constantly being drained, the city is sinking slowly but surely. Many of the older buildings are sloping, and on the street i live , the roofs look like a rollercoaster.








"The former headquarters of the Spanish Inquisition (que Monty Python:)"


"Church of Guadalupe. To the left they are selling plots for the graveyard being built next door. If you cant afford to pay cash, you can always pay in easy installments of 12 or 25 months. Gotta love the catholic church...



























"A building covered with murials"



"eehm...que?"


Yesterday i visited perhaps the most famous sight around MC, Teotihuacan. The City of the Gods is an ancient city which was built during the last half of the first millennium. The original name of the city has been lost, but it was later inhabited by the Aztecs who gave it its current name. Nobody really knows who the original inhabitants were or why they abandoned their city, which gives it an air of mystery. Today we can only see about 10% of the original city which probably housed over 150.000 people at its heyday. Most of it has been reconstructed, and gives us only a taste of what it once must have looked like. Originally all surfaces were covered with a white type of plaster which was then painted in magnificent natural colours. A few places we can still see some of the blues and reds in the murals, but most of it is unfortunately lost.


"Me on top of the Pyramid of the Moon. It represents the female aspect of the duality.
You can see the avenue of the dead going
past the Pyramid of the Sun."











"Here i am again, on top of the Pyramid of
the Sun. It represents the male aspect of
the duality. You can see the Pyramid of the
Moon in the background."