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I got my bags packed on a roll.

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my passport photo

Oh no.

Amateur Traveler episode 580. Today the amateur traveler talks about castles and cathedrals, pyramids and tacos as we go to Mexico City. the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Coming to you from London, we'll be talking more

about our sponsor in a little bit, but first let's talk about Mexico City.

I'd like to welcome to the show Patrick Munsinger from German backpacker.com and

Patrick has come to talk to us about Mexico City.

Patrick welcome to the show.

Hi thank you.

Now the odd thing about the timing of this Patrick, welcome to the show. Hi, thank you.

Now, the odd thing about the timing of this

is in between, I think, when we scheduled this

and now there's actually been an earthquake in Mexico City.

But so far as we both know, and you have friends there you have talked to, the city is not

flattened, the city is in fact recovering and receiving tourists and there's still plenty of

things to do there, but I did want to mention that because the time is going to seem very odd to some people.

Exactly, yeah, that's true like I've just talked some friends to just have in Mexico City since I lived there in spring for four months and there was some trouble in the city right after,

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