I think it might have been cheaper than usual because we're staying for 10 nights.

This hotel, btw, is about as American as I think it's possible to get here in Mexico City. Almost everybody speaks fluent English, the complimentary breakfast is copious and includes pancakes, and if you ask about places to eat the staff instinctively directs you to ( Read more... )

At the beginning of August I'm headed to the traffic capital of Mexico, Mexico City, for a week of the kind of fun and relaxation that can only come with covering the largest HIV/AIDS conference on the planet. I will be one of tens of thousands of researchers, activists, HIV-positive people and journalists who converge on MC at the height of the ( Read more... )