CDMX historico, final day

I did museum stuff, but not Templo again. Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo. Free! Temperature check, no drinks, but they might let you check a bag. Decent size. Felt a bit odd to be spending time there, because there's nothing about Mexico: halls on ancient Egypt, the Middle East, Persia (especially carpets), ancient Mediterranean (Phoenicians, etc, also brief mention of the Iberians), China, Japan, Korea... But it was interesting, and some of the placards/exhibits covered new territory, like Mediterraneans governments, or body depictions (the old static form, vs. dynamic classical Greek and Roman forms.)

There was also a temporary exhibit of political cartoons about walls and borders, and another more serious exhibit about a few borders (US/Mexico, Israel/Palestine, Western Sahara) and refugees.

Masking 100%.

I did pass Templo Mayor on my way home and it looked *very busy*, so just as well.

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[Edit: Most of the 'ancient' artifacts in the museum are actually replicas. This seems perfectly sensible to me, for a latecomer museum. And many are very well done, looking exactly like old distressed bronze, say.]

Colonia Cuauhtémoc, day 1

New place. I regret.

It's a 2 BR with nice furnishings in the photos, and that's accurate, and it was only a bit more than a small 1BR I was considering. But while *pretty*, it has... let me put negativity under a cut:

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I'd looked forward to the stability of being here a month rather than two weeks, but now... ugh.

The grocery front is looking up though. There's a Wal-Mart Express, with decent selection. Rachel, who is somewhere nearby, was pretty happy with the fruit and meat choices. Soriana still had a better bakery, though. Masking in Walmart was 100% except for one pharmacist.

Also, the place *does* come with a water purifier. Assuming it's not super old too and thus works, yay.

The building is the first place of three that doesn't have a security front desk or expectation to register guests.

The walk to Walmart passed a Lebanese cafe, and some higher end restaurants. I haven't explored much else; arrived, got food, settled in, and now a thunderstorm.

The neighborhood feels like it might be quieter by day than the old one, though I could be wrong. The night isn't quite as dead.