four months ago I caught a flight from Monterrey to Montreal in Canada since
then I've been to 11 countries have circumnavigated to go again I've come
full circle which is gonna mean one thing
hola amigos and welcome back so Mexico
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okay it's been four months but let's try some Spanish hola amigos buenas tardes
bienvenido a Mexico hoy es lunes tardes estoy en Parque Revolucion in
Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco the home of many things such as tortas ahogadas
tequila to name but a few you have to come here I was here about 13
months ago and I'm just back for one day before I go back to Mexico City if you
are new to this channel I'm David I'm 37 I'm from London in the UK originally as
you can probably tell from my accent and I've been travelling full-time for
almost three years now while working online to sustain myself a lot of my
videos up in countries like Japan Indonesia Colombia but predominantly
about a third of our videos are from Mexico so you can check out the playlist
somewhere up above so you'll probably notice from recent videos and if you
watch the ones in Paris I talked a lot about the fact that my view around
videos and doing videos there's very much changed over the summer I'm much
more relaxed about it so today I've just spent the afternoon walking around
taking lots of shots and I'm just go sit down now and talk about a subject that
is very at the forefront of my mind you know and it's very much connected to the
last video I did in Mexico which was in head s eagle-eyed viewers might notice
that I'm wearing the same t-shirt for a good reason so that video it was all
about home and the fact that after so long in Mexico it felt like Mexico had
become my home and the last four months have been ridiculous so much has
happened and it feels like four years you know so coming back to Mexico a
couple of days ago who was a rather strange experience you know I was kind
of expecting just to slip back into everything you know just like it was
yesterday where I was in Jerez but actually I had a different experience I
felt like I was a novice in Mexico again and you know I didn't know how to do
things I was worried about speaking Spanish and just little things and very
quickly though things began to change I walked walked down the street on my
first day here and I smelt at a taqueria in the distance any Mexicans you'll know
that's now personifies Mexico I walked at all I would see signs on shops with
vocabulary words that I remembered from before
and I was surprised that I could actually remember these things and
gradually things started to return to me and even now I'll be honest you know it
doesn't feel like I'm fully back home if you know what I mean I think it's gonna
take some time but it's definitely getting there
I've spent today purposely walking around Guadalajara looking at the
amazing architecture looking at all the stalls and you know Dia de Muertos is
coming there's all the little skulls everywhere and purposely I've been
trying to talk to locals in my you know in my limited Spanish just to try and
bring my confidence back up again I think when we leave a country as as
long-term travelers or you know even if you come to Mexico on a vacation and
then come back a year later you worry that you know you're gonna take some
time in terms of adjustment but I guess I'm finding that it's actually coming to
me I think it will take some time as I said when I left Mexico four months ago
I said that I really wanted to travel again and some of you were not negative
about it but why do you wanna leave Mexico because you know a lot of people
that come to Mexico in terms of YouTube will stay in Mexico that's great but for
me this channel and my life has always been about travel and you go in cycles
so I had a great time that hit hit last time I was here for six months but I got
to the point where I had had enough I wanted to move on and I spent four
months in amazing places like Paris for the first time I discovered my heritage
in Belgrade I went to Hong Kong during all the protests I had absolute dramas
in Indonesia there will be a video coming about that I promise I went to
Malaysia for a month and ended up in Japan which I never thought I would have
the opportunity to go to again and now I'm back here so much has happened and I
think that's why I kind of feel like in that adjustment mode because part of my
head is still here but part of my head has been on that journey all around the
world again and during those videos that I did over the summer particularly in
Japan and I said about doing things I make you happy and I absolutely
reinforced that right now I wanted to come back to Mexico quite
simply because I wanted to it's a place that I feel comfortable it's a place
that I feel at home what is home you know is home a place or is it a feeling
that's the question and I think Mexico for me isn't necessarily about the place
it's about the feeling that he gives you in Japan I kind of remembered a thought
that I had when I was there before that Japan is great for a short trip but it's
not necessarily something that I would stay for a long time and I couldn't put
my finger on the reason why and I still come and it's the same with Mexico I
can't put my finger on the reason why I enjoy Mexico so much and so I went back
another six months hopefully lots of places to visit I will be going to
Mexico City next as I said very much to work over there a couple of months where
a calf is digging where toss January I'm going to Acapulco again there's a
surprise coming with that and then I will be doing a bit more travel around
Mexico before leaving again and probably coming back it's an endless cycle as I said
and yeah before we go for something to eat I want to give you my thoughts again
about Guadalajara I'm always quite honest and raw and
controversial sometimes people often don't like my opinions but Guadalajara
is not my favorite city in Mexico it's it's nice in terms of great architecture
and churches and cathedrals that's amazing very colorful but it doesn't
have the same magic that say someone likes Zacatecas or San Luis has for me
you know obviously it will be different for you you'll have different opinions
and the word I would use to describe it would be gritty there is homelessness
there is poverty the streets are dirty it's not as pretty as a lot of places in
Mexico but actually is that what you wouldn't see when you come to Mexico or
any country do you want to see you know everything glammed up just for foreigners
no you don't you want to see real life and as a result I would definitely
recommend Guadalajara of course a place to visit when you come to Mexico and
we're gonna go to have something to eat now because I
absolutely starving and I might die if I don't eat nothing so let's get going
okay I fancy some torches ahogadas or tacos y barbacoa I can't pronounce anything today and there's some places just over
there I think let's see what we can get personally I always find the finding
some local food when you come back to a place is the best way of reintegrating
yourself back into life in that country let me know down in the comments what
you do when you go back to a country that might help me in future thank you
so I found this little place beneath the tower Plaza as you can see there's all
the Dia de Muertos flag thingies up there ready for Dia de Muertos in
dos semanas and we have some classics here tacos barbacoa which I believe
there's a particular type of barbacoa tackles that is sold here in Guadalajara
thanks to one of my viewers for recommending that by the way and of
course you've got other things chorizo one of my favorites and lots all the
dishes they're beautiful let's eat so I have my favorite chorizo tacos and
that's barbacoa let's have a look at that in a minute and basically when you
get it you just get the tacos and then he can come to the bit and serve
yourself with onions salsa, limon cilantro and I can't see what that is so
and let's load my tacos up okay let's start with some salsa beautiful, it's a
different color that I'm used to let me know what this is in the comments I'm used to Roja
and Verde let's have some cilantro or coriander in UK world Oh a bit much but
never mind I love cilantr by the way a little bit of onion not too much
yeah that'll do so here are my tacos so the barbacoa which is now drenched
in salsa so by the way is usually beef lamb or goat and and many people believe
that because it sounds like barbecue it's like done on a grill but from what
I understand it's not it's the steaming or baking process so it's it's cooked in
a different way it's not on a grill and let's tuck in that goes okay and the
tacos and this is the first parents of this type of taco on this channel FYI
OMG to the max, I must admit Ihave used a bit too much salsa that I'm finding that
and it's a bit crispy you know it's not like and it's not as soft as
a tortilla that I'm used to, what a mess holy moly this is definitely bringing back my love
of Mexico and make me feel more home
absolute heaven the best
hmm and of course the way you eat tacos you don't bring it to your mouth you put
your head to the taco
Oh my god
I've forgotten how good of a Mexican chorizo is I saw some in Japan trust me
you do not want to see it Mexicans would be offended but this is
beautiful
gracias amigo muy deliciosa guess where I am amigos
it's another thing that makes the uhrrr there we go
happy to be back in Mexico i's Oxxo and I used my classic line tengo solo
doscientos pesos, I only have 200 pesos whenever I want just
a bottle of squirt or fresca or a hot dog or just a thing of queso Oaxaca -
that I can eat at 3 o'clock in the morning I only had 200 pesos on me a but
it's all good, I can't get the lid off
squirt Mexico just revitalize itself in me all I need is some mezcal light I
walked out of Centro now going back home as you can see this is the Mexico we know
in love residential streets colorful buildings artwork in the distance
cathedrals and churches over the top of all the buildings and people just going
about their daily life this is what Mexico is all about right so I know this
has been a bit of a simple video we will get back to more extravagant videos as
far as we get back to Mexico City and on the subject of that on the back of the
last videos in Japan we're always with one of my English students there will be
many videos coming up with other people in and how exciting there's two YouTube
channels I will be collaborating with as well as
someone I'm going to Acapulco with if you are in Mexico City or indeed Oaxaca
for Dia de Muertos message me on Instagram if you want to be in a
video that would be great because I really want to you know focus on having
other people in videos rather than just me let's face it you don't want look at
this for the whole video so yeah do that thanks for watching and I'll see you
next time hasta luego