Day Five - La Condesa Market and Polanco

Right outside our door was a wonderful three-block food market. We hurried over to the tamale stand that Sheryl had read about and bought six before she ran out. We also filled up on some fruits and veggies. Nice start to the day.

We went up to the Soumaya Museum. The architecture of it is sparkling outside and holds 4 floors each successively smaller accessed by a circular ramp all the way up. It houses an extraordinary one-person/family’s collection of art steeped in Mexican cultural heritage as well as of technological progress. I loved the large array of telephones from the wooden kind with a crank to the modern brick cellphone. The top floor was devoted to primarily bronze sculptures that I don’t seem to have taken a picture of. I guess I was so taken, I forgot. I highly recommend this free museum.

Across the street was the Jumex Museum. We didn’t go in but the sculpture outside was ginormous! This neighbourhood, Polanco, is quite posh. The coffee shops and shops charge premium prices for everything. It was pretty though. They have a really nice rails to trails with a separated bikeway and walkway. It didn’t look like the railway was operational, but the rails were still there.

We finally used the bus system. It was good. Fairly easy and very frequent - 5-minute headways. Walking behind the bus station, we saw evidence of an earthquake that split the sidewalk and up a very old wall. The earthquake thing here is kinda scary. They happen not infrequently. The story is that earthquakes happen in September - or at least the last three big ones have been in September. Hmmmm.Läs mer