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“Well my friends the time has come, to raise the roof, and have some fun” as the great Lionel Ritchie once said.

Okay so, here goes….we left Bournemouth on 15th August with two back packs weighing in at 21 kilos and 17

kilos and headed for Heathrow. 13 hours later we got off a BA flight in Mexico City after I managed to put away

6 bottles of complimentary mini Bordeaux, several cans of London Pride Ale, and a damn good measure of Gin

and Tonic. Blondie stuck to the G&T’s. I had no idea how bad that mixture would react with Wind! Oh my God!

On arrival the Taxi ride to the hotel was an explosion to the senses to say the very least. 20 million people live

in Mexico City (the biggest and most populated city in the WORLD!!) oh and 4 million cars…most of whom start

their engines and their horns at the same time. Every other car is a battered out old VW Beetle with no

passenger seat and a driver with no teeth.

Everyone looks like they are Mexican and the dudes in the park even ride horses with huge Sombreros. We

have a pedometer fitted to our boots and today (our first day - we managed 16,731 steps) er… now that’s a

long way in anyone’s books.  Answers on a postcard for how many miles that is. A prize will be given when

we get back for how many steps we cover over the next 18 months and who guesses the closest.

So mail in your guesstimates.

As for Mexico City, it’s incredible. As you can see from the images in the gallery (click on the link) its stunning.

Think that this stuff was here long before the old Jesus dude dissed his mates and got strapped to a tree

thing on Mount Thingamajig for preaching the word of some bloke with a big white beard that no one has ever

seen……..anyhoooo, these dudes here were building pyramid structures and sacrificing virgins to the Gods

long before we even said Amen! Seriously though think 2000 years ago and then add some more…..so these

things in some of the images are over 2000 years old….and that’s older than me and my jokes!!! Seriously,

these artifacts were buried under Mexico City for tens of hundreds of years and only got dug up in circa 1978.

To be able to get as close as we did today was just, incredible. Sights, Sounds, Smells, Senses, Smog.

So do enjoy the images and more will follow when we go to the sites of other parts of Mexico. Comments

and feedback welcome. Cheers and Cheerio - Chris and Blondie

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