Mexico city

So I have arrived in Mexico City.  The first few days have been relatively uneventful with me spending a lot of time sleeping off the jetlag and generally struggling to get in and out of my top bunk.

The first day I went for a wander around near the hostel and ended up stopping at a sushi bar for something to eat.  Bad bad idea.  Warm sushi with cream cheese in it, ugghh!

Yesterday I did some wandering around the Zocalo with Nathaniel, from Malta, who I met in the hostel.  He was telling me that the area we're staying in is a good area, 'see look at all the police', I said I wasn't so sure that police everywhere is such a good sign! 

The Zocalo is a big city square, with lots of old Spanish-style architecture and lots of market-style shops.  And everything is so cheap!

Last night we went out with Antonio, a Mexican who now lives in Germany.  He took us to a Mariachi bar.  It was good fun.  We had guacamole with chips, tacos and were drinking beer and tequila all night and it cost us the equivalent of $50 each.  Beers are like $2 here and you go out and get a quesadilla off the street for less than a dollar.

So Antonio got the Mariachi to come and sing for us.  The band has about 10 people with various instruments, guitars, violins, trumpets, etc and they surround your table and play and sing.  And they're really good.  So they also got me up for a bit of a dance, then sat me down in a chair and a couple of them started wiggling their bums in my face!  Then another one grabs my hand and puts it on his bum!  I was all, 'agghh I don't want to touch Mariachi's bum'.  But it was pretty funny and he had a pretty hard arse for an old fella ;)