Good morning or afternoon really.
We’re getting a late start today in Mexico City but we’re going to get on the subway
now and go exploring in the neighbourhood of Polanco and I’ve got my green juice which
I’ve been having every morning at the place across from my apartment.
So let’s go on the subway. It's only five pesos!
Just barely got out of there!
That was a close call.
OK we’re in Polanco.
Had a little bit of a situation at the end there where I almost didn’t get off the train.
Marc got off and people don’t wait for you to get off before they try to get on because
they don’t leave the doors open for very long.
So literally about ten people were pushing me back onto the subway car and I was just
trying to push through and I was getting pushed further and further back into the car and
I didn’t even realize that the doors were also closing on the people trying to close me in.
So long story short I had to kind of uh…instead of just saying ‘excuse me’ I also had
to push back.
But sometimes you have to push a little bit to get where you need to go.
So here we are in Polanco now so let’s keep exploring.
We were hungry so we found this really cute deli called Amati and we’re going to people
watch and have some lunch.
We just finished lunch and we’re going to walk around the streets in Polanco now but
we’re just laughing because I realized that I know how to say sorry or excuse me four
different ways in Spanish and I don’t even speak Spanish!
Like a quarter of my vocabulary is how to say sorry: lo siento, permiso, perdóname,
me esculpa. That's it.
So I can say forry….sorry four ways.
Making Canada proud down here.
Polanco is a very posh part of town.
There’s all sorts of ritzy shops.
It’s supposed to be the Rodeo Drive of Mexico City so it’s been fun to wander around but
the real reason we’re here is to see Carlos Slim’s personal art collection.
He is the wealthiest man in Mexico, one of the wealthiest people in the world, and he
has a private art collection of 66,000 pieces and so that’s what we’re here to see at
Museo Soumaya…Soumaya! Here!
One thing I love about this gallery/museum so far is that the way they’ve hung most
of the pictures you can look at the back.
So here’s a Modigliani, which I love, and then you can go around the back which, I don’t
know if this is weird, but I think is almost as interesting as the paintings because you
can see the life its had and different auction houses and different owners, which maybe nobody
finds as cool as me but I love seeing what’s written there.
I don’t want to be weird but this is the bathroom, which is so nice, at the museum.
THAT’S a bathroom.
That museum was awesome.
I think the building itself is maybe the coolest part but in terms of the art I think Rodin’s
Gates of Hell were my favourite.
They’re so imposing just the massive scale of them when you’re looking up at them and
they had a lot of Diego Rivera pieces and I’m glad we went.
It’s definitely worth going and it’s free to get in so I would recommend that if you’re
in Mexico City and we’re still in Polanco.
I’m going to put a sweater on.
I had to actually buy a sweater here in Mexico City because it’s a lot colder than I thought
it would be.
So if you’re coming at this time of year then you should definitely pack some layers
because right now I think it’s about fifteen degrees or something.
So anyway bought this so I’m good to go and let’s go keep exploring.
We’ve been looking for this amazing bookstore and we just found it.
Guys, we found our favourite section.
Where are we going to go next?
Oh my god.
So many choices.
That bookstore’s really cool.
It’s in Polanco.
It’s called El Pendulo and it’s part restaurant, part cafe, part bookstore.
But I love rifling through books and reading a few pages and all of the books are shrink-wrapped
so you can’t do that so we didn’t stay for too long.
Now we’re going to take the subway back to our neighbourhood, Roma Norte, and get
something to eat.
One thing about Mexico is that you see the letter E everywhere which got me really excited
until I realized it means ‘parking.’
Eeeeee!
It also means you see E with a big x through it almost everywhere so….balance.
That is the perfect way to end the day in Polanco - back in Roma Norte with tacos.
It’s perfect.
See you in my next video!