Last Saturday, Alejandro and I went to the Paseo de la Reforma. Last year, a long stretch of the boulevard was lined with a Christmas market with probably more than a hundred vendors' stalls. There was also the annual poinsettia festival with local flower growers selling not only poinsettias but a wide variety of other plants. This year there was nothing, nada, zip. In fact, other than a couple of festively decorated hotels, and a couple of displays set up by a Mexican insurance company, you would never know that it is the Christmas season along Mexico City's most famous street. Given that the city government had gone all out decorating Reforma for the Day of the Dead, I thought that perhaps they would do the same for Christmas this year.
At the intersection of Reforma and Sevilla along the pedestrian walkway, the insurance company GNP had set up a "Santa Claus house". We looked through the windows, and the interior was decorated, and there was a big chair. It would seem that Santa is there at certain hours to hear children's requests, but he wasn't there at that time.
Along the walkway on the opposite side of the boulevard, the same company had set up a Christmas tree.
The St. Regis Hotel, located at that intersection, was nicely decorated for the season.
A block farther down the boulevard, the Marquis Reforma Hotel, is always nicely decked out for holiday seasons. (You may recall the photos I posted of the hotel for the Day of the Dead.)
Thinking that perhaps the Christmas market and the poinsettia festival had not yet been set up, I returned to Reforma on Thursday, but there still was nothing.
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