{"id":590,"date":"2021-08-06T08:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:59:49","slug":"first-days-in-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2021\/08\/06\/first-days-in-mexico-city\/","title":{"rendered":"First Days In Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying out something new: updating the Big Map in real time, as we&#8217;re traveling . . .<\/p>\n<p>Landed on Monday, August 2 and settled into the AirBnB on the edge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/juarez\/coloniajuarez\/index.htm\">Ju&aacute;rez<\/a>. Woke up to enjoy the ballet below, and it&#8217;s been a while since my arm hurt this much from playing Punchbuggy:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/juarez\/avenidabucareli\/0208-03-21.jpg\" alt=\"Avenida Bucareli, Colonia Ju&aacute;rez, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 3, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>First full day was mostly spent getting food and essentials, though we did pass through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/juarez\/plazagiordanobruno\/index.htm\">Plaza Giordano Bruno<\/a> on the way to the supermarket:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/juarez\/plazagiordanobruno\/0208-03-21.jpg\" alt=\"Plaza Giordano Bruno, Colonia Ju&aacute;rez, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 3, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Second full day we took a break to explore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/centrohistorico\/index.htm\">Centro Hist&oacute;rico<\/a>, first stop being the massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/zocalo\/index.htm\">Z&oacute;calo<\/a> plaza in the center of the old city, which I thought I saw was the largest such plaza in Latin America:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/zocalo\/0108-04-21.jpg\" alt=\"Z&oacute;calo, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 4, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>From there, sweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/dulceriadecelaya\/index.htm\">Dulcer&iacute;\u00ada de Celaya<\/a> and churros at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/elmoro\/index.htm\">El Moro<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/elmoro\/0608-04-21.jpg\" alt=\"El Moro, Eje Central L&aacute;zaro C&aacute;rdenas 42, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 4, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Read there was a nice playground in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/polanco\/parquelincoln\/index.htm\">Parque Lincoln<\/a> in the swanky Polanco neighborhood, so there. Beautiful spot:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/polanco\/parquelincoln\/1308-05-21.jpg\" alt=\"Parque Lincoln, Polanco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 5, 2021\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying out something new: updating the Big Map in real time, as we&#8217;re traveling . . . Landed on Monday, August 2 and settled into the AirBnB on the edge of Ju&aacute;rez. Woke up to enjoy the ballet below, and it&#8217;s been a while since my arm hurt this much from playing Punchbuggy: First full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}