Coyoacan

We haven't blogged for awhile now because the week was pretty monotonous and not very pleasant in general. James still isn't feeling very well, although since yesterday he did improve considerably, but the recovery is slow and painful. Besides, I am totally freaked out about my most darling 14 years old cat, Lacika who fell sick this week. He has some kind of lung infection and is on antibiotics, but mom is very worried about him. I cannot even imagine the prospect of losing him, he is our most loved little kitty and has been the sunshine in our lives for so long now... Besides these two serious issues, I also had some minor annoyances that made things worse. So all in all life is not the best right now, but we are hopeful.

And yesterday finally we did go to Coyoacan, the "university neighborhood" and met up with Pablo for lunch. James was supposed to go to the UNAM library first, but he didn't feel strong enough yet, so we just went down in the afternoon. We met Pablo in this adorable and very low key torteria and finally we had our first "tortas" in Mexico. Tortas are very similar to US sandwiches, lots of different kinds of stuff put in a bun, but I thought that they were more delicious than their northern counterparts because: 1. they are lighter and smaller, 2. the combination of ingredients is much more carefully thought through, 3. they are much more varied. So for instance, James had a vegetarian torta with eggplant and cheese, but the eggplant was so deliciously roasted with garlic and different spices and the cheese was perfectly melting and it had avocado and a tartar like sauce on. Mine was with squid and a special pesto kind of sauce - amazing combination of tastes - and Pablo had one with 2 different kinds of meat. Meat of course is big here, so we eat it quite often although I still cook a lot of vegetarian dishes at home.

Coyoacan itself is very cute, no high buildings, it's like an old colonial town (used to be totally separate from DF) with lots of young people, students and such, very funky, great pubs with kegs even, cobblestones, bookshops, and an amazingly large and beautiful church surrounded by a park in the center which hosted the weekly "hippy market" full of jewelry, t-shirts, hair extensions, incense, etc. I bought a very cute and warm sweater kind of hoodie, woolen, hard to describe, maybe I'll put up pictures of it later...The streets are narrow with lots of pedestrian traffic... Loved it! Although it takes about an hour to get there from where we live, I'm sure we'll be back to Coyoacan very soon and we'll also visit the Frida Kahlo museum then.
Above are some pictures just to give you a taste...