hi everyone and good afternoon welcome back to northern mexico today we're in a new city
called torreon in a new state as well called coahuila two words which are incredibly difficult
to pronounce now when i told people i was coming here i was basically told three things number one
don't come here number two there's nothing to do and number three
it's a bit of a crap hole but you know what i think you should know me by now
i don't listen to that [ __ ] i take things with a pinch of salt and i make up my own mind when
i get here and today is extremely hot this quite possibly could be the hottest video i've ever done
and i don't mean porn it's like monterrey absolutely sweltering if i was in the uk i'd say
i'm throwing me tits off we're going to central to explore let's go
interesting introduction to torreon i've already walked through one kind of it wasn't really a
protest i think it was like a campaign for a local governor or something i'm not quite sure but this
one's different there are different flags what is PAN is it a protest about bread probably not
i'm gonna have to google this afterwards and put it on the screen super chido that's what i saw
earlier yeah luis fernando salazar is that oh yeah municipal presidency i guess local mayor right
well i'm off that main street which i'm kind of glad about because it's mildly chaotic and
you're not going to believe this what does today on at least that part of today on remind me of
the legendary ciudad neza because there are these like big red statues like the ones that were in
neza the uh coyote statue and also the one in chimalhuacan and it's just got that same kind
of feel you know i'm not going to say the word vibe centro is up there so let's go
so first impressions of torreon on i feel like it's a city of two halves or even quarters
there seems to be an immense spread of wealth here so coming from the bus station last night
i know you know bus station areas are going to be a little bit sketchy and run down but
that's exactly what it was buildings were dilapidated clearly a certain degree of
poverty there and i'm not going to say i was shocked because i'm not a 12 year old but
it was moderately intriguing and then coming here towards centro it's i guess it seems a bit more
middle medium if you know what i mean is totally on an example of a city in a country where
it doesn't receive appropriate investment you get that in every country i don't
know
i must say the architecture here is quite striking you've got this brown big brown sign
there big squares with these modern buildings in the background i think that's classified
we're in we've got fountains everywhere big hand over there a statue for benito juarez and more
government buildings i guess it kind of reminds me of havana weirdly what's going on with these
big squares and there should be a flag up there imagine but it's not there today and also there
is kind of a feel of united states the further north i go the more u.s it kind of feels like
we're in plaza de armas the main like square in the middle of the city i believe there are
like four fountains around the outside is this mexico it doesn't feel like a regular
like plaza de armas or central square it's just got kind of a different feeling the
buildings around the outside are much more kind of i can't put my finger on it
this was something i wanted to do it's um canal de la perla it's like a canal under the ground
through the city that originally brought water to torreon on but it's closed there's a padlock
on the door and the gate down there is also closed i think it's apparently been closed for security
reasons that's the word if i can get it out um so we're gonna go to this market instead whenever
i come into these random markets i always have a flashback to tepito mexico city but i know nothing
about this one so i'm going in it without fear you know there was no fear anyway with tepito what am
i talking about but it's just got the same kind of stuff as usual you know pretty much junk souvenir
stuff it's quite large there's another section of it let's cross the road into this other part
i'm on the hunt for food not a bag not a scorpion i'm not going to have gorditas
we had them previously there's choriqueso i'm going to have lonches i believe it's like lunch
could be wrong i think it's like a massive sandwich ah
oh takes the middle out fills it with mayonnaise
and mustard
so i have lonches whatever that is with fresca in a bottle i might add from an abuelita in torreon
what more could you ask for it's like a massive torta i guess
i'm gonna take the onions out because i don't like onions but everything else looks good oh my god
look so i think it's pork i've got jalapenos lettuce tomato onion you name it and as i said
performing you saw the abuelita preparing it one of the sides of it has got loads of mayonnaise
and the other bit under there has got a load of mustard and she takes the bread out to put it in
there apparently this is enough for two people but you know what i have the stomach of an elephant
oh my god look at the actual size of this it's the same size as my head
maybe it is enough for two people
very meaty and lots of bread the thing i don't like about like torreon is um the fact that there
is too much bread so i don't normally have them very much or things like this but you know what
look at the bread on the bottom it's like proper homemade is it like artisan bread i don't know
it's not like a just a bread roll you get from a supermarket i think this sort of food just
goes to show prepared by an abuelita in a casino economical economic kitchen right and it's so good
and we talk about these you know gourmet restaurants and stuff in i'm not going to
mention any places but this you know you can come to someone like this have food prepared by a local
in a market this amazing bread it's filling it's tasty it's affordable it's exceptional
also i think i might be a convert to jalapenos because normally i don't really like them
on a pizza i normally take them off but the jalapenos in this really give it a bit of a kick
love it right praise be to moctezuma quetzalcoatl and all the other lot because that food was bloody
brilliant like double avo it was gorgeous i'm not exaggerating to proper fill me up anyway
just went past another one of them accessor bits for the canal also closed so that's
it's definitely closed so the last stop on this video we've done backup food
that was closed and now we're going to go to the other one god this is confusing let's go
on the way there it's on that sign it doesn't take a genius where i'm going
i just wanted to say that trojan is another example of these places in mexico that just feels
undiscovered in terms of foreigners because i feel like i'm the only one here people want to look
at me with a bizarre perplexed look on their face like what the hell is this english guy doing here
oh look at that artwork on the building but that's a good thing and it's kind of like i feel like i'm
in a place where i have a valuable opportunity to kind of
experience somewhere that isn't so commonly visited look at those bloody mountains this
is uh paseo morelos it's like a pedestrianized although cars do come down here pedestrian
nice bit but anyway we're going to go to the teleferico i just fell down a hull brilliant
uh as you can see we're at the teleferico kind of very colorful isn't it
and look it's not like a steep incline at least it doesn't look like that you saw earlier the
shots of the uh cable cars going up so it kind of goes very low across the sea i'm really intrigued
i know it's another teleferico oh it's a dead bird you're okay hon this is really colorful
something oh tickets i'm not going to talk on there because these people are going to be on
there and if i talk to the camera i look like a weirdo so you'll just get some nice views right
so
okay the woman just told me that six is the last one down it's now five so i've got an
hour it's plenty of time i can't really see what i'm looking at but a torreon sign lovely and this
big thing here is like i think it's like a tourist thing that it's meant to represent the holy land
and there is something that you might have just seen yes he's just disappearing behind
the building now that teleferico was a bit like charlie's great glass elevator down to hell
because it was so hot i've never sweated so much in my life sweat so much but who gives
a toss because this view is i'm gonna try not to swear effing amazing glad you look at it
this is what i call an easter egg this is season six episode five in season five episode five
in toluca we had something called tacos di obispo which means bishop yeah that guy's a
bishop he's got a bishop's hat on i don't need a drone i am the drone just look at this view
this is possibly the best view from my telephone echo and by the way that one had a glass bottom
like the one in zacatecas that which was also red maybe it was made by the same company i don't
know but you can see in the middle there you know these modern buildings obviously
i'm not saying that mexico doesn't have modern buildings because that's stupid um
but normally in a place like this you'd kind of see a lot of churches and these colorful
buildings and things but it's kind of not like that it's different it's unique in a way perhaps
there are other places like this in northern mexico that i haven't been to yet and probably
that will be the case as well but this is kind of my induction in a way to proper northern mexico
any other trains in the background this is absolutely breathtaking i am quite emotional
we're so high up you can see the trains down there
look at it there's mary crystal wow there he is this is actually called cerro de los
noas i think it's a type of cactus which i'm going to try and find because
there's also an interesting story behind it concerning england [ __ ] look at that i'm
sorry they're swearing in this video but you know it's a good place to come if there is swearing
it's warranted look at the mountains coming on to where the houses and things are in buildings
what's that big thing in the middle there is that like some sort of cold thing i don't know
looks like some sort of power station you can hear like religious chanting it better not be
copyrighted music um but i've seen the thing that i'm looking for down there the noes cactuses and
they're also called queen victoria because it was thomas moore a poet or author etc lyricist that
named this cactus after queen victoria i don't really know
why that's the information i couldn't find is it because it kind of looks like regal
i don't know you can imagine it like as a bit of a crown on her head or a corona it's too soon right
this christ is supposedly the third highest in latin america the highest being
christ the redeemer in rio de janeiro in brazil it's also supposedly the highest in north america
but hang on a minute now i could be wrong but i'm going to dispute that and this is where the
mexico snob comes out because two years ago i was in pachuca hidalgo i'm going to put some shots
over the top now that was 33 meters tall this is 22 meters tall just saying but does of course
that include the base the one in pachuca has a big base this doesn't it's right to the floor but even
without that i think at least from my brain which can't always be relied upon this feels smaller i
don't know but whatever it doesn't really matter it's a christ right and i'm at the top of torreon
this is an invaluable life moment somewhere i would probably never ever come but i'm here
so
what a day i didn't think this video would be a what a day video but can i just say that i
think totally on just went top tier that was unexpected and it just goes to show you know
places that people slag off people when people are negative about places then you come somewhere
and you've got a flipping hill with a jesus up with a teleferico and people that live here can
do that they can come up here every day all i had in england was a fish and chip shop and i'm down
and i wanted to go back to what i said earlier to finish this and that is about the fact that
even though people who come here might think it's [ __ ] and even people who live here
might think it's [ __ ] but you know what coming here for one day as a foreigner as a tourist i've
enjoyed myself it's been good and actually it's valuable it's an invaluable experience because
one day i might be sitting there when i'm eight years old i was going to say with a house full of
grandchildren but there's going to be a house from a cat let's face it and it comes up on a quiz show
saying about what's this random place in mexico where you can get lonches and there's a television
and all that and it will be totally on and i can say i went there years ago so remember that when
you want to go places and all your friends say no it's crap don't go there
you know what you say to them bollocks and go where you want so thanks for watching
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