Mexico City @ January 2011

A beautiful day, exploring some places without map and plans. The town has got a magic.

Mexico City @ January 2011

The Sunday night dinner with Ignacio Reyes M. and Claudia Lorena A. was all about basic life issues, as they are finding a good restaurant with original and delicious food, checking out music playing there if it was by play back or in vivo etc. Finally we achieved both goals and stoped in a nice restaurant with a almost Japanese decoration out of wood and leather, decorated by a dimmed side light, but with the very original food. It was astonishing to see how my friend Igancio RM could convince Lorena to order a mixture of deferent components and to explain their essential taste arrangements to me. I had met him sven years ago in Berlin, whil he was undergoing a short period training in radiosurgery of brain lesions. He was actualy resident in another German city doing brain surgery. We met, by chance, almost at the end of his Berlin time. We did meet four of five time there, having some drinks and food. During following years we had some contact by email, not regularly, not always. Now I am here, after sending him a email at Friday deciding to go to MC. Sitting there, a day later, after all these years meant to me a lot. Interestingly by the way, we, both, had the feeling having met after some short time again. It was amazing. Food was good, non-alcoholic drnks better, what was unique was the easy, fluent, very funny and aggreable mode of our conversations. It was, as if nothing have changed in all years. His memories from Germany, vivid and detailled, told in a nice way, have been reminiscent to me for other places. A lot of stories, a lot of time passed. Lorena, a doctora de oftalmologia and oculoplastica, was a perfect conversationalist, she had some training in the US, loving long windy winters in Cleveland. Her deep insight into local histories has impressed me, indeed. While talking on the recent past of MC culture, events, we have been discussed issues concerning Spanish- Mexican and Spanish-South American relations, not in terms of politics, more easier and complicated at the same time, in terms of perception of each other's live, developements and expectations. I expressed my disappointment of the current changes in Spain, regarding the velocity of economic growth of the last 15 years there and the Lack of reciprocity in cultural changes. For me as a lover of Spanish poetry, reading Lorca since I am 14, of Spanish music, contemporary cinema and last but not least, and specially, of Spanish footbal ( Barca for ever), the disappointment seems even more bigger than I feared. The new Spain, all those people we meet somewhere, be it Berlin, London, New York or even in Spain itself, are somehow yet not as mature in terms of being  non-pretensious, easy going cosmopolitism, approach to music, literature, arts and cinema, criticism on orthodox religious dogmas, criticism on generalisimo Franco.

I was amazed and happy seeing him again and her at first.