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#FriFotos: Windows
Text & Photo: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** This is an admittedly poor quality iPhone shot, but it’s one that’s timely, not only for the theme of this week’s #FriFotos–windows–but also because it shows a cake that celebrates Mexico’s Fiestas Patrias: the independence celebrations that start in earnest tomorrow. This photo is of a cake at … Continue reading
How to Plan a Trip to Mexico City
Text & Photo: Julie Schwietert Collazo * If you’re a regular visitor to Collazo Projects, you’ll know that Francisco and I lived in Mexico City for about two years between 2007 and the beginning of this year. (We’d live there still if our residency visas had been renewed). Mexico City is definitely one of my … Continue reading
Closed Due to Possible Collapse/Cerrado por Posible Derrumbe
Text & Photos: Julie Schwietert Collazo Additional Photos: Brayan Collazo * “Cerrado por posible derrumbe”– “Closed due to possible collapse”– was the sign hanging from a rusty chain that was blocking the entrance to the history museum in Mariel, Cuba. Say “Cuba” and crumbling buildings are as likely to come to mind as rum and … Continue reading
Un Besote Para Mexico!/A Big Kiss for Mexico!
On my way to Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport yesterday morning, the taxi driver asked me, “What will you miss most about Mexico?” My first impulse was to say, “Everything.” I’ll miss the markets, the color, the coexistence of the traditional and the modern, the food, the sounds of Mexico City, the public transportation, … Continue reading
