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The stars above us

So today we have the Geminid meteor shower, right? Well, what could we do besides printing a sky chart of Mexico at 20:00 (actually, I printed it for 18:30, but was able to infer +- the position of Gemini) and drive to our dear and nearby Ajusco. We got to a nice spot, with no light around us besides the road (which was quite bothering, but bearable), and… Well, we had a nice view of the Southern and Western parts of the sky… But the East and the North were cloudy, and Mexico City was just North of us, so the city lights reflected on the clouds… So after some minutes, we headed back home. When we were mostly back into civilization, Nadezhda told me she was hungry. And you know how hard it is for me to please my woman when she wants food… Some days ago we were remembering a very good place to eat pambazos, [term]quesadilla[/term]s and such, very close to the center of Magdalena Contreras. Contreras is a beautiful (although mostly poor) area, struggling between its identity as a little town and its reality as part of a huge city. Nadezhda was born in Santa Teresa just in the border between the towns uphill and the city in the valley, between the opulency down in Pedregal and the poverty towards Contreras, and she knows quite well the area. It was very nice to hear her talk about her childhood, stories about her father driving like crazy on those impossibly twisted streets, places she went to as a child… This little restaurant is on Álvaro Obregón street, and has not changed at all since she first took me there about eight years ago. She insists it has stayed identical since her father took her and her brothers there 25 years ago. We just had our dinner, walked a couple of blocks, and came back home. Yes, you might ask why should I blog something as irrelevant as this… Well, the thing is, I really enjoyed the evening out :-) BTW: I thought I would never see a harder place to drive in than Sucre or Potosí, in Bolivia… Well… Contreras does not fall behind :)

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