Morelia, Mexico
Our young waitress and lovely hotel room. 2 euros a night and the room was 5 meters high. No warm water but the place was great fun!
We spent a night in Morelia after visiting the butterflies. Yes, I will post photos of the butterflies in the near future but now I’ll tell you a little bit about Morelia.
It’s one of the most Spanish cities in Mexico and totally different from Guadalajara. For some strange reason I didn’t take photos of the streets. I guess I didn’t find them interesting. Neither was I thinking of you readers and the fact that you might find some photos of the city interesting. I’ll promise to improve my manners, sorry.
But yes the city is what it is. I really can’t judge a book by it’s cover. We hardly saw the city. Walked around it for 6 hours and went to a photo exhibition. I suggest that if you are interested of the city, read about it in Wikipedia.
As people whose native language is English would say: “I did Morelia.” Personally I hate the term “DID”. I prefer the words “saw briefly” but who am I to judge other languages. They even shoot with cameras so I guess it tells something.
There are some photos of a church and it’s wall paintings. I had to include few photos of museum I visited two weeks ago in Guanajuato. It was an old building that was used to torture local natives. I will tell more about the place later but wanted to add the photos just to put things in perspective. I have extremely mixed feelings about the religion here. But yes, more about that later. The photos are nothing special, but I have to start posting them so I won’t fall too much behind on my postings.
Post about Morelia without any info about Morelia. This is quite a crap post even with my standards. It just the church stuff that puts me on a negative mood. I think I’ll have to write a post about religion to get it out of my system.
Morelia, nice place but for what I saw, too European for my liking and it was hard to find food during the night. There you go! Travel agency ‘Nestori’s Shitty Trip’ thanks you for your attention. See you later!
Reader Comments
It’s really, I don’t know, interesting to see the picture of the young waitress. She looks sweet and really, really young. Were you shocked or surprised?
Ten, eleven years old, would you say?
This raises so many questions: do you think she was working for a family business? also going to school? did she appear okay/content? (Fine, you can’t go by someone’s appearance only, but you know what I mean.)
Is her working more akin to delivering the local newspaper (in Finnish/American terms) as opposed to helping to feed the family – or vice versa?
Any chance you could give some more color on this?? Any kids working in Guadalajara? More pics to be taken and stories to be told? Hungry for more local social commentary!!! :)
Well it the first child waitress I’ve seen in here so I was a bit shocked, you could say. I mean Mexico is one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America.
I think she worked with her mother and since it was weekend she probably goes to school as well. From her behavior I’d say she had been working there quite a while. She knew the routines and only our strange questions about the dishes threw her off a bit.
Having said all that, child labor here is quite normal. This morning I saw some adds that wanted to get rid of child labor but sadly that doesn’t seem to be the reality.
I think I mentioned in some post that grocery stores have always people putting your food in plastic bags. Well these people are ALWAYS kids (-15) or old (+60) people. What is more shocking is that I read from Lonely Planet that these workers don’t get paid by the store (I checked this from my flatmate and he confirmed it). Their only income are the tips that people leave them.
Yesterday my flatmate told me about a river that is polluted by waste of Guadalajara. The water is so intoxicated that people are dying of strange diseases and children are deformed. That might be my next “assignment”.