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Mexico, day 2
2022-07-05 20:25"You won't need A/C" said my host who said the place had A/C. "The cross ventilation is great."
You'd think that, given the windows on both sides of a small unit, but the fan happens to display a temperature, which never dropped below 21 C, even while it was supposedly 12 C outside. I did not sleep well until I used a wet towel as a blanket. I will say the place was quieted than I feared.
Shower time! No hot water. There's an on-demand calofont (gas heater), with a display, that never got above 24 C. Someone came to fix it. They fixed something, but now I get hot water for like 5 seconds.
This is not a dirt-cheap place. $1000 USD for 15 days.
On the food front, between sleep, work, and thunderstorms, I didn't make it to the big market of stalls. Actually I forgot about it. I had had the idea that maybe the magic search term would be 'bodega', and found two candidates. Due to UV and thunderstorm, I got out late to the higher rated one... or where it should be. I couldn't really find anything, despite being open to "10 PM".
The other one actually has a photo of a milk carton, which suggest some actual food, but it was getting dark. I got some convenience store food -- pizzas, sandwich, tostadas, and retreated home.
The historic center really does empty out after 6:30. Almost all the stores up by me were locked up, rather creepy. Lots of cops along some streets, so at least mugging is unlikely. Things are more open further south, but still. Oh, and the candidate bodega is to the north...
On the plus side, the air quality the past two days has been pretty good.
UV: between latitude and altitude, Mexico City is getting really high UV indexes, like 11-14. One more in the "why did I come here now?" column. OTOH between clouds and my new Totes parasol (despite it feeling small and a bit translucent to visible light) I seem to have avoided sunburn despite being out for hours at the worst time yesterday.
You'd think that, given the windows on both sides of a small unit, but the fan happens to display a temperature, which never dropped below 21 C, even while it was supposedly 12 C outside. I did not sleep well until I used a wet towel as a blanket. I will say the place was quieted than I feared.
Shower time! No hot water. There's an on-demand calofont (gas heater), with a display, that never got above 24 C. Someone came to fix it. They fixed something, but now I get hot water for like 5 seconds.
This is not a dirt-cheap place. $1000 USD for 15 days.
On the food front, between sleep, work, and thunderstorms, I didn't make it to the big market of stalls. Actually I forgot about it. I had had the idea that maybe the magic search term would be 'bodega', and found two candidates. Due to UV and thunderstorm, I got out late to the higher rated one... or where it should be. I couldn't really find anything, despite being open to "10 PM".
The other one actually has a photo of a milk carton, which suggest some actual food, but it was getting dark. I got some convenience store food -- pizzas, sandwich, tostadas, and retreated home.
The historic center really does empty out after 6:30. Almost all the stores up by me were locked up, rather creepy. Lots of cops along some streets, so at least mugging is unlikely. Things are more open further south, but still. Oh, and the candidate bodega is to the north...
On the plus side, the air quality the past two days has been pretty good.
UV: between latitude and altitude, Mexico City is getting really high UV indexes, like 11-14. One more in the "why did I come here now?" column. OTOH between clouds and my new Totes parasol (despite it feeling small and a bit translucent to visible light) I seem to have avoided sunburn despite being out for hours at the worst time yesterday.