Daily Archives: November 24, 2007

mexico mágico

After almost 4 years I am visiting the land that saw me born, fed me in my first years and offered me my basics. You know after crossing the Atlantic Ocean, I felt I MUST come in here. Actually, I shouldn’t let pass so much time between visits.

With all its chaos it should be admitted that México is a chaotic – non understandable but magical land. And between a busy and nice agenda, I want to share you some information:
(click on the picture if you want to look at it in bigger size)

– One of our avenues is Revolución. As you can imagine in a metropolitan area of approximately 25 million persons to find 8 lines streets just in one direction is common, and it doesn’t imply that the traffic improves. However sometimes you can find space between red lights.


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– In Mexico is a fact that you can eat a different dish every day for more than 365 days. But I will not talk about dishes yet. By now, I want to share ingredients. Here one of the vegetables’ stands in one mobile market.


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From the same market the stand of oranges (20 oranges for 30 pesos ~ aprox. 2 euros) I am an addict of orange juice!!!


Mex - naranjas
– The Popocatepetl , magnificent volcano.


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– I am very proud of my manzanita because it is able to connect via modem to the internet. 😉

back in the american continent

even that was not Mexico my first stop back in the American continent. And it was my first time in Canada, it felt I am back in the American continent, everything is in BIG size! (the following pictures are not big, but you can click on them if you want to see the details 😉 )

Just in brief, because I didn’t report on time these happenings. I would like to share that my first outstanding impression of this land: to find OFTEN public phones. They will be usually next to the bus stop, at least in Montreal. This is interesting while you are coming from Filand. Especially if we recall that sometime ago the Helsinki Sanomat reported that the public phones disappeared in Helsinki area.


Montreal public phones at buss stop.
Also, the architecture in Montreal is interesting, especially for the stairs.


Houses in Montreal
And they use interesting “tends” for their cars in winter (in order to do “less” snow work).


Montreal house garage
Without a doubt, Montreal is a city with its own personality. I want to thank A LOT to my host (JP Botha) for a great time in this region of Canada.