Category: Mexico City
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CDMX week13, our last week in México, with Gayle & Mike
Friday April 5 we welcome our last guests to CDMX, Gayle & Mike Oulighan. Sandy met Gayle through her friend Marjy Kaplan and the Boston Fit Running Club back in 2011. Since that time we have run numerous miles and races together as well as enjoying each others company socially. We all belong to a…
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CDMX week 11-12, The stalkers found us
Andrew Buzzi & Dick Maniace have been introduced many times on these pages. In fact we have spent more time with them in the last two years than we ever did when they lived above us on Beacon Street in Boston. Since we started this beautiful travel saga they have visited us in Paris, Tel…
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A run in the park
So we are alone for a few days between guests. The first day we stay home and catch up on crosswords and blogs. Monday morning we have no plans for the day other than going for a run. Chapultepec Parque is closed so Jim plans a run around the park with one sunny hill but…
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CDMX week 10, the O’Connors
We would like to begin this blog by extending wishes for a speedy recovery to Ann Duggan; a friend, former colleague and avid traveler who recently underwent successful coronary artery bypass surgery. Here’s hoping you are on the road again soon Annie. Donna and Mark had barely been gone an hour when we set out…
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CDMX week 9, Donna and Mark
We first met Donna Quirk at a running event on Beacon Hill about nine years ago. Since that time we have become good friends with Donna and her husband Tom. Tom and Donna visited us in Paris and San Francisco in 2017 and Donna spent some time with Sandy in London while Jim was in…
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CDMX week 8
What happened to week 7??? Bill and Katiti hogged part of it and Roma finished it off. We start off week 8 looking for a new running route. Avenida Amsterdam is a beautiful shaded oval circuit that used to be a horse racing track, thus this area is known as Hipódromo. It is close to…
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Two days exploring Roma
After we put Katiti and Bill in a taxi we took a leisurely walk through la Condesa and Roma to join up with our new friend Tom O’Toole for an Airbnb Experience Tour booked as “La Roma where the movie was filmed”. Claudio, our guide, met us at the designated corner and informed us that…
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Katiti and Bill, CDMX week 6
Jim first met Katiti Kironde on our front steps in Boston about five years ago. They hit it off immediately and then ran into each other on the street or steps a few more times. Jim very wisely collected her contact information at one of the initial meetings and invited her to our annual Christmas…
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CDMX, Paul & Alicia, Presidents day weekend
Our nephew Paul and wife Alicia were the first to take us up on the offer to be our guests in Mexico City and we were overjoyed at the prospect of spending quality time with this very fun and interesting couple. Like us they have a true zest for life and love to travel. Paul…
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CDMX week 5 , first house guests
Our first guests in Mexico City, Walt LaLiberte and his friend Doug Cureton arrived on Wednesday February 6 from Florida. Walt has been a dear friend of ours since 1996 when we met at a road race in Newton. We have run many other races together over the course of 23 years including the New…
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CDMX week 4, San Miguel de Allende
On Thursday January 31 our new friends Miguel & Ivonne picked us up just after noon and we headed 170 miles, 3.5 hours, northwest to their second home in San Miguel de Allende which is a UNESCO world heritage site that attracts thousands of tourists and new residents from abroad every year. This town of…
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CDMX week 3, new friends
Adele Waller is a childhood friend of Jim’s from Asheville, NC who he has not seen for 50 years. She has been following our blogs and seeing that we are in Mexico City connected us with friends of hers who have been here for 16 years. Never ones to pass up an opportunity to meet…
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CDMX week 2, immersion
We started week two with a five hour mostly walking tour of the historical downtown area of Mexico City known as Centro Historico in Spanish. Our tour guide, Santiago, who we had chosen from Stylewalk MX picked us up at our front door and drove us to the Palacio de Bellas Artes and we walked…
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CDMX
Ciudad de Mexico or Mexico City in English is where we landed on January 12. We had planned on Seville Spain but had outstayed our welcome in the Schengen area of the EU. As Americans we are allowed 90 days in the Schengen area and then we have to be out for 90 days. We…