Oh go on then. And I would like to state that despite how the title of this post may appear, I have always had total belief that this website can help me fulfil my blogging ambitions for a long time to come.*
The reason there haven't been many posts this week is because I haven't really done much. On Saturday I was feeling better but in the end I didn't get up to much. Then on Sunday, I felt ill again. I went to see the doctor on the Monday and started a course of antibiotics. In a bid to recover properly, I stayed at Makocha's house in Sayavedra until Wednesday morning. In that space of time the only thing of note I did was finish my book ('Eleven' by Mark Watson. I thought it was great, in case anyone is looking for a good (and fairly easy) read) and watch a film called 'The Ultimate Gift'. Not only was I feeling pretty dreadful, but this weekend also saw the good performances in the sporting world coming to an end, with Saints and the Falcons both losing.
My eventual return to the hostel was met by much rejoicing, and news that the internet wasn't working. Even though I shouldn't be using it much, when one isn't feeling great and can only really muster enough energy to 'hang about', such news can be rather devastating. Nevertheless, there is a nice little coffee shop next door which has wifi, and also sells tuna, mayo & cheese crepes. We got the internet back Thursday night at the hostel, but over the past two days, the staff at the coffee shop have got to know me and my tastes (I only like a little bit of Mayo & Cheese) well. In the evening I headed out to a bar called the Black Horse with two new arrivals at the hostel, Miriam (a Norwegian girl) and Chris (half Mexican half British). Miriam is here as part her medical training, and was telling me about some good places to visit near Puerto Vallarta, which hopefully will come in handy later in my trip.
Thursday I decided to head to Coyoacan, the district where I went with Makocha and Alonso during my first weekend. It was a bit of journey to get there, and I was disappointed to find that the Bazar, the main reason why I was going, was closed. So I wandered round for a bit and sat in the sun to eat some M&Ms. As I left the station there was a man handing out free cereal bars. I took one, and made my way up the stairs where I passed a woman begging. I couldn't understand why she didn't wander down and get some of the free bars.
Today I spent a good few hours walking. Chapultepec is an amazing park. It is so vast that for most of my walk I could only see one or two people in the vicinity, yet I would stumble across an amazing monument one minute, before sauntering through what felt like an enchanted forest the next.
I was also determined to seek out the two lakes which I had twice previously set out unsuccesfully to find. the problem with the area of the park I needed to reach however, is that it is situated on the other side of a main road. And a main road in Mexico City is pretty big. Imagine two M25s alongside each other cutting right throught the middle of the city. I make it so far towards my ultimate destination but trying to navigate all the roads becomes a bit of a nightmare, so I ask two security guards who are conveniently loitering nearby. They send me down a road (convincingly so) which leads me back to where I had started. By this point I had been walking for 2 hours and not eaten anything for about 5 hours, so decided to give up. It is quite frustrating that Mexican people generally don't know where anything is, yet at the same time always have an answer to your question. I even provided the map to these guards, and asked them where our current location was, and they still couldn't manage it.
I spent the final hour of my excursion ended back on a grassy, kind of peaceful (it would have been extremely tranquil but for the main road 20 metres away) verge alongside the only lake which hasn't eluded me. I listened to some music and then to and audiobook and struggled to keep myself from sleeping in the sun.
Maybe this weekend will have some more interesting stories and photos, we shall see. I'm glad to be feeling a bit better, and hope that dreaded food poisoning doesn't hit again. I still need to visit a couple of the places in Mexico City which were on my 'absolutely must do' list before I arrived!
Twig
* Just in case you are totally bemused, this is a reference to the Rooney saga at United this week...
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