Adios Mexico City

Planning on leaving Mexico city tomorrow morning- spending today booking accommodation and bus tickets- great fun when you have very little spanish. The last few days have been great. On Sunday we went to Xochimilco, a network of canals where you rent a boat and go sailing for the afternoon. As well as a must see for the tourist families rent boats for the day and bring lunches and picnics and spend the afternoon on the river. The boats are decorated with so many colours and designs. Vendors on smaller boats sell their wares, everything from crafts, to corn on the cob, tacos, tortillas etc. Even Mariachis will come to your boat and sing you a song! We got a lift to the train station that morning with Gaby´s mum but were caught doing an illegal U-turn and 150pesos bribe got us out of paying a 1000peso fine. Sunday night we went to Mexican Folklore Ballet (same idea as Riverdance though this has been running since the 60s) which was brilliant. We got the cheapest tickets, for seats in the gods, but for 50pesos more (paid to the ushers) we were moved down one level to much better seats (tickets that would have cost a furhter 100pesos if bought at the box office)- bribery is alive and well in Mexico city!! Monday night we stumbled upon an Irish pub (Celtics) but have to say it didn´t have the ´cead mile failte´ that one would expect. The bouncer on the door made us wait outside for ages eventhough the place was empty and we couldn´t sit where we wanted- had to sit at a table for 3 because the comfy chairs were being kept for larger groups altough no groups appeared. They got the message when we didn´t leave a tip- definitely would not recommend this pub.