A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

The National Museum of San Carlos is a museum devoted to European art.  While its collection certainly cannot compare to the great museums o...

On Mondays I am usually at Alejandro's family's house, and I prepare something for dinner to give Alejandro and his sister a break f...

I have shown you a number of photos of sunsets here in Mexico City.  Now here are some pictures of dawn. I was at Alejandro's family...

I have mentioned previously the drug-store chain "Farmacias Similares" which sells generic medications.  Its emblem, the rotund, e...

When Alejandro and I went downtown on Saturday we had dinner at the terrace restaurant of the Liverpool Department Store.  (By the way, neit...

Mexico City is built upon the site of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán.  Just steps away from the Metropolitan Cathedral is the archaeologi...

Last week when I went to pick up my mail at the Mailboxes Etc. office in Condesa, I thought to myself, I'm only a fifteen-minute walk fr...