At the end of 2025 I was navigating a break-up to my now ex-fiancé and life threw me a little concession in the form of a work conference in Miami.
Since I was in the neighbourhood I decide to go back to a city that left an impression on me some 6 years ago, Mexico City. I thought - it’s an easy 4 hour flight, Instagram kept serving me content that only fuelled my inspiration and the peso’s made it an easy trip to manage before the Summer/Christmas break back in Australia.
I was desperate to be in a new city with people I don’t know, surrounded by a different culture with different smells, sounds and pace. For sure it was escapism from my turned upside-down life but I also really, really like tacos and tequila. On a serious note, I find travel tends to help bring you back down to the here and now, balancing your nervous system by dissolving the noise of our everyday lives. It wideness your imagination and the capacity to feel and expands your perspective as a human being.
Pace is what you’ll find in Mexico City — there’s a constant hum: cracked pavements, jungle-like greenery, and hundreds of electrical wires hanging almost gracefully along the streets of Roma and Condesa. As a new Mexican friend told me, it’s an all-day city: 2 a.m. bites, nightlife featuring top DJs from around the world, and, naturally, an abundance of culture. Don’t be disillusioned — the city is vast, polluted, gritty, and carries all the complexities of a developing economy. Yet there’s a charm at its centre that most ancient metropolises possess.
Some spots I would go back to...
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Best Late lunch always Contramar - (the food, the vibe)
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Dinner on Monday - Choza (that’s when the owner plays his record collection)
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Fun leather pieces with a western edge - Montserrat Messeguer
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Best street to walk along - Calle Colima Roma Notre
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Bar - La Vista (cocktail bar that can turn into a boogie)
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Party - Sunday Sunday’s in Centro Historico – (good luck finding the alley way ☺)
