December 5, 2023 – Mexico City

Breakfast for the foodies: cibeles.

See blurry photo of menu for ingredients. Came with a small, almost biscuit size piece of bread which was good for cleaning up all the salsa.

Visited the Museo Mural Diego Rivera this morning. The place has a 15×47 foot mural the great Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, painted in 1947.

The mural shows political figures, a few everyday people and big shots of Mexican history.

Rivera painted flat figures, meaning the people and objects don’t look three dimensional. That’s not a negative comment. He had his own style and it will hold its own place in art history.

There’s another of Rivera’s mural in the National Palace but I had to go on an hour long tour done in Spanish and I didn’t want to spend that much time.

Have a good one.

Went back to Templo Mayor this afternoon. The museum was closed yesterday and if the museum is closed you can’t walk among the ruins.

The museum had a lot of articles recovered from archeological digs. And, walking on the designated pathways through the temple was very cool. Admission was 90 pesos or about $5.70 US.

Finally took the Metro most of the way back to my Airbnb. The line that would have gotten me to within a half mile is down so had to take two lines that got me to within a mile and a quarter.

Uber rides are cheap. Have taken three rides and the ride this morning with tip came to about 8$ US. Still, the Metro is far cheaper with a ride less than $1 US.

The driver did have to work for it. There were a few traffic jams. I got the impression the driver likes to drive and cuss so he enjoyed it.

Have a good evening.