Travel experiences across the world
After five days of intense sightseeing, and with a Mexican wedding coming up tomorrow, I wanted to take it easy today, so instead of a list of monuments and museums I chose instead to walk around nice neighbourhoods.I began in the Centro by checking out the Shops At Downtown, which is an old hacienda that… Continue reading Alameda, Roma
(I just noticed that this is my 100th entry in this blog. A hundred days of travel in four years!)Today I got another high-octane culture injection: after working through the anthropology museums, today I went to art museums!The first on my list was the Palacio de Bellas Artes, an impressive turn of the century building… Continue reading Art Museums: Bellas Artes, MAP, Frida Kahlo
Today was another road trip day! Reader, I was just as excited about sitting for two hours as about the actual destination.The mission was to go to Puebla, a city east of Mexico City notable for being one of the first towns that the Spanish founded from scratch. The city's historic centre is a Unesco… Continue reading Puebla
Today I took off to Chapultepec, east of the old town. It is an area with an enormous park, an urban forest, which is home to an impressive collection of museums.I took the metro for the first time; at $5 a ticket (just €0.25!!) it is by far the most affordable way to move inside… Continue reading Chapultepec Museums
Most museums are closed on Monday, so I thought today was the perfect day to visit the great pyramids of Teotihuacán! Here's a picture just so it comes up first in the preview!Initially I thought of going by myself (you go to the Northern Bus Terminal, take a bus, then buy a ticket to the… Continue reading Teotihuacán
Our new adventure is... Mexico City!I landed yesterday after an endless 12h flight, and I think I got altitude sickness (Mexico City is 2,300 m above sea level!); the very second I stepped off the plane I got a splitting headache and lightheadedness that didn't go away until I had an aspirin and a meal… Continue reading Centro Histórico
Alas, today is my last day in Moscow, and so today's mission was to tie up loose ends.The first order of business was to take a long metro ride up to Izmaylovsky Kremlin, a very strange but picturesque recreation of a traditional Russian fortress that I think was actually built in like 2007? (It's so… Continue reading Izmaylovsky, Novodevichy
Today was finally Kremlin day! Sooooo of course we woke up to 5°C and howling winds and cold rain. When I left the hotel it didn't look all that bad but I had to turn back for my umbrella and winter sweater. When I packed, mind you, the weather forecast announced 20°C and sun for… Continue reading The Kremlin, all of it, then the Bolshoi
We'd learned that the Kremlin closes on Thursdays, so our plan today was to visit the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow's largest collection of prerevolutionary Russian art. It is the city's best known art museum along with the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, which deals in European painters, especially Impressionists. When choosing which of the two to… Continue reading The Tretyakov Gallery, St Basil, GUM
My first full day in Moscow came up cloudy but noticeably warmer than St Petersburg. As any tourist would, I went straight to the Red Square first thing in the morning!From my hotel in Arbat, I can take the metro and alight at Revolution Square just two stops away, so already I am way better… Continue reading The Red Square, the National History Museum, Tverskoy
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