Mexico City at a glance

Well what a fantastic day. I met up with Ramiro and Chucho from our sales partners here and they took me out for a great afternoon. We did a lap of the city in the coolest car ever. It was a massively loaded up Jeep Wrangler that was like driving in a boat it floated about that much.

It is interesting to cruisea around some of the back block as you get to see some of the absolute poverty that most of the people in Mexico City live in. Everytime you pulled up at a set of lights street vendors were selling everything, from cigarettes and beers to Dashmats for your car. There is also a lot of “performers” who do some sort of novel act in the 4 minutes between light changes to encourage you to give the some coins.

Probably the most depressing we saw was a mum with her 3 kids. She was lying in the middle of the road while they were doing somersaults and other tricks off her feet. Desperate stuff, especially to have the kids involved, but people do what they have to to survive in the Worlds biggest city.

Speaking of that, this city has 22 million people in it. That’s the population of Australia + 1 million. All crammed into a 75km square area. Think about that for a moment………. It makes for a crammed in place.

We did a lap of all the city highlights and then headed back into the south of the city to meet up with one of Ramiro’s good friends who then took us all out for dinner to an amazing place called Arroyo. It was HUGE and completely full. It was everything I expectedx of Mexico and more. The food, the music, the people, the colour. It was just a fantastic place with some great company.

There were many beers, much poor Spanish and poor English, and too many laughs. These people are fantastic and if the rest of the Mexican population is like the 4 I have been out with so far this will be an awesome week. It did get a bit concerning at one stage when it seemed miniNICK had headed off and we didn't know where. Found him in the end, guess where he was.... suprise suprise....

After the cantina, we went back to Orlando and Heli’s place and had a few more beers and solved some of the Worlds problems. All in a days work when you are representing the views of your entire nation J

I got back to the hotel around 11pm and was very very keen to hit the sack ready for the big day ahead.