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think i made it ah jesus
ah i'm out of breath after that i've managed to evade a vicious pack of mexi dogs in zacatecas
clearly i didn't that was just a joke inspired by the atrociraptor scene in malta in the
new jurassic world movie anyway today i'm in zacatecas once again the previous video
was a 4k walk around at night time where we saw some awesome tamborazo this is the fourth
time i've been in zacatecas so i'm not filming in the city itself today i'm actually getting
on a bus to guadalupe which is just down the road it's a place i actually intended to go
about three years ago but i never got around to it so today is the day hopefully there
are no more mexi dog attacks let's get going
i just stopped off at oxxo for a fresca my favorite and i was going to say as in the
last video zacatecas is iconic because there are so many things you see even at like 10
30 in the morning that are just so intrinsic in a way to mexico you've got tourist buses
you've got wonderful architecture you've got this lovely lettering above shops you've got
people selling street food on the streets you've got people over there in like traditional
dress things like that here we go here's some food wonderful and some more there remember
back in the day when youtubers be like is this italy is this spain including me um i
actually did a video here years ago with kind of the sarcastic title as per usual um is
this mexico to highlight the fact that mexico is a real country and it has its own identity
yes there are similarities between certain areas in mexico and places in europe as a
result of colonialism history architectural similarities but you've got to remember that
mexico is its own country you know i'm near this americano where we've got fish we've
got nopales you name it but um there's somewhere i wanted to show you that's near here that's
absolutely elite in terms of colours here it is it's this little park um i remember
walking down these streets like late at night when i was here the last time trying to find
food and going to like little sausage stalls and stuff iconic i've got to stop using that
word so yeah it's not as elite as it was when i took a photo here a few years ago i'll put
it on the screen right about now as you can see it's a bit different there's a lot more
color and obviously i've edited the photo so it looks even better than it actually is
but it's still gorgeous isn't it so i did accidentally get on the bus to guadalupe the
other day um i'm just going to head towards the main road hopefully we'll be successful
okay there are loads of buses going to guadalupe here's the bus stop oh one of these my buses
there's a guadalupe one but it's in the wrong line brilliant
i'm off the bat that particular bus doesn't actually come into guadalupe central it stops
on the main road down there so we're heading into central it's okay we can have a little
bit of a walk and look at some of the houses down here classic nice colors
here we are welcome to guadalupe apparently it is a pueblo mexico a magical town honestly
over the years i've learned to take that title with a pinch of salt because some of them
are brilliant some of them are a bit [ __ ] but um i like it so far it does give me vibes
of jerez de garcia salinas which isn't really too far away from zacatecas like these uh
classic zapateria shoe shops everywhere with the uh lettering at the top there's a mercado
independencia behind me and uh oh it's all very pretty down here look nice it did look
a bit like a favela in brazil you know that one i got kidnapped in sao paulo um when i
was walking in but seems a bit better now oh what we got alameda is that parque presidencia
municipal
museum centro historico is that way but i just saw something that's interesting back
this way guy with a saxophone and a kid with a drum there's always uh awesome street musicians
in zacatecas clearly in guadalupe as well and had s just down a graffiti ridden alleyway
as per usual this is where i feel the most at home we're heading to centro now which
is up there and i think to the left
you know what today in guadalupe i'm having a nice relaxing day at the time of filming
this i uploaded the second animation video yesterday and oh my god i don't know how you
feel but when i was editing that when i watched it back i was so stressed out like jumping
from place to place trying to fit in everything possible in that place and it's exhausting
you know i want to be quite relaxed today without having to worry about knowing everything
or doing everything i'm going to touch on it later that i know some mexicans emphasis
on the word some believe that if a foreigner doesn't do everything in a place in mexico
that means that they'll go away with a bad impression it's not the case i'm going to
come back to a silly example later in relation to an oxo hot dog so stay tuned for that one
i like guadalupe it's nice and quiet and relaxed one thing i always know is about mexico like
there are always people out and about like i could be completely wrong here but you know
you don't get people that are just sitting at home watching netflix they're always out
and about doing something you always get that impression in mexico there's always something
going on there's always a kiosk to climb on there's always a cathedral to look at up there
which we're going to in a second guadalupe zacatecas there's the pueblos magicos sign
classic mexi bus
this is the wonder of doing nothing when you come to a place and i know for some when you
think of travel and going places that might be slightly incomprehensible why would you
go to a place and not do anything but sometimes you just want to look at the flowers and the
bees and the butterflies and relax and listen to the sounds of the music from the church
watch abuelita's hogging the benches in the shade thanks hun
and just take in the atmosphere the magic that's what travel's about not stressing about
fitting everything in unrealistically people watching as well there's more to travel than
places isn't there there are people you can watch people i'm just watching some people
behind me saying hello to children and children running around playing on the sign behind
me as well
and abuelas walking with umbrellas putting things in bins children playing with pigeons
well this is an absolute iconic beautiful angel it's the convento franciscano de nuestra
senora de guadalupe
it's absolutely beautiful the uh artwork on the domes is absolutely spectacular really
interesting design i might have to look up what that's all about
this music better not be copyrighted let's have a look inside
so it really is stunning in there i actually sat down and sat through the remainder of
the church service it was right near the end there were people queuing up having the bread
and wine from the goblet and then at the end the priest himself drank from the goblet and
then cleaned it it reminded me of when i was at school i went to a catholic school in the
uk and had to go to uh communion masses despite not being religious whatsoever but you know
this is the point about youtube because obviously i didn't run up to the altar and stick the
camera in his face because that would be inappropriate i feel like sometimes people think it's not
in the video it didn't happen there is something called imagination and common sense you know
you can see me go in there you can see me come out clearly i stayed in there you know
so um you don't have to see everything in a youtube video to know that it happened i
know there's a thing nowadays if you didn't take a photo of it it didn't happen it's just
not true
so let's have some food because i'm starving and honestly i haven't got that much battery
left so that might be all we do my power bank has stopped working brilliant fast forward
to a little bit later i've been walking around for a while searching for food which is pretty
much what i do 24 7.
oh it's quite a tiny mercado and all the food places at the top are closed just in a toilet
don't piss on the floor i haven't that's a plus, oh what's out there?
Guadalupe
okay it's full time i fancied some launches remember them from matamoros last year but
we're back again i'm having lonches which is exactly what i had in matamoros but it
is top tier elite there's the lady preparing my lunches behind me it's awesome it's one
of these classic places in mexico that's very much like a home kitchen you know little shelves
up on the wall with um those ginormous jars that were mayonnaise now something else probably
salsa with you know the kitchen sink there it's really cool isn't it here is the launches
let's have a look
yes i think it's pork we've got chiles mayonnaise we can of course have a lechuga tomato lettuce
and tomato (salad) but i don't like vegetables lonches um
i just remember the bread pan frances french bread beautiful and i think they sort of scoop
out the inside of it then put the meat on with all the other fillings it's beautiful
and lunch launches is kind of like the torta basically i don't really like tortas in the
they're kind of too bready but the french bread with adobada lonches is beautiful i'm
making such a mess look this was the place quite simple yeah before i go i might get
some ice cream why not i've seen some really nice places it looks awesome today i've had
a really good day despite not really doing anything shockingly mind's blown right i think
sometimes with mexico and travel and travel anywhere ignorance is often bliss i think
sometimes bizarrely the more we know about a place and the more we do that can actually
hamper our experience shocking right and yeah ice cream here we go a random [ __ ] helado
place oh lots of uh options what should we get fresa mango chocolate oh is that dragon
fruit what's the blue one i don't know what that is i think i'm gonna get the oreo one
i'm gonna be a basic [ __ ]
this looks so good doesn't it beautiful gracias that's the way that so it's two big dollops
of oreo ice cream with chocolate on the top and it's like uh you know when you're a kid
and you have that chocolate ice cream um sauce that goes on and it kind of hardens that's
what it is and i've got a pink wafer in as well this is the most beautiful ice cream
i've ever seen in my life and it comes in a little basket thing this is classic me sitting
on the floor on the pavement with my camera balanced on a car bumper brilliant this is
an absolute top tier angel look at it
wafer ice cream
hardened chocolate on the top she gets it out of like a pot so i think it was like hot
before i don't know um it's truly an ice cream angel it's so creamy oreo mmm you know um
gelato you have in italy that's top tier this is close to it mexican ice cream is divine
oh look um ORGASMIC look at the little baskets so cute guadalupe you've been brilliant that
ice cream was so good but i am literally so exhausted right now so i'm going to get on
the bus and go back to zacatecas i'll see you there
right people it's much later in the day i'm back in zacatecas at my airbnb before the
sun goes down it's time for my final thought i'm going back to my silly example about an
oxo hot dog from earlier bear with me okay just imagine right that this was my first
time ever in mexico and let's say i go to mexico city for a week right and also let's
imagine that the only thing i do in mexico city is have an oxo hot dog and maybe a carton
of mango boing no polanco no condesa whatever but you know what i like an oxo hot dog i
like a carton of mango boy meaning that i would leave mexico with a positive impression
yeah i know that for many mexicans some and i understand this that you want foreigners
to come to mexico to have a good time and to leave with a positive impression and sometimes
like today i just want to go somewhere without knowing everything without doing everything
i don't want to you know i just want to have an experience as i said earlier the atmosphere
the magic i don't need to know the in-depth history of a church or the in-depth history
of a certain ice cream place i go to and actually by some people incessantly and aggressively
highlighting everything i didn't include ironically that's what causes a bad impression don't
feel that just because i only had ice cream or lunches and went to a church in a place
that i'm going to go away from guadalupe with a bad impression it's quite the opposite sometimes
we only need to do one thing in a place for it to be magic and that's what i like about
travel right next time we are actually going to torreon which is tomorrow in real time
so oh my god there's more mexi dogs i'll see you next time i'll um catch you later