How much to see a physician ?

I guess the first line is the minimum then you might add one or many options, eg. 15 pesos (about 1 dollars US) if you want to know what your blood pressure is. This picture was taken in a mall, next to a pharmacy.

The price of the bread

It seems difficult to starve here if you have a few euros in your pocket. The cheapest bread at the supermarket costs 1,5 pesos (0,09€ less than 10 cents !). Ok, it's not good bread, it's not very big, but it'll do for a sandwich for example.

Cheap bread.

NO WAY

Wtf beer.

I don't know what that is and I don't really care.

Where to buy cheap electronic bits in Mexico City ?

I needed a Europe-to-USA power adapter. I entered the first Radio Shack shop I spotted in a mall and found what I was looking for for... 89 pesos (> 5€, USD6.5), so I didn't buy it. Same mall, another shop called Steren, and there, bingo ! Same little adapter for 14 pesos (0.8€, USD1) ! I bought 2 of them.

European-American travel adapter(s).

Find the post box

I couldn't find the post boxes in the streets until Lorely spotted one for me.

So just for your information, these are located on the sidewalks, most often under the billboards.

Mexico city : impact on my health

Mexico city : one of the most polluted city of the planet and combined to the high altitude (above 2200m) those factors had the following side effects on me :

• Nose (slightly) bleeding (that never happens to me)
• Headache in the evening (ditto)
• Bronchial irritation (e.g. I cough)
• Shortness of breath

The main cause of the last symptom is due to stairs + carrying beer.

The damn stairs

After 4 days, the breathing and headache problems are almost solved.

I hadn't any stomach related problems, thanks to the advices given by Lorely :

• don't drink tap water (drink beer !)
• vegetable must be carefully washed using a special disinfectant
• don't eat or drink anything sold in the street.

I think that an heavy rain helps : today for the first time in 4 days I could see the mountains surrounding the city, and I almost didn't cough.

A computer friendly airport ?

Just a bit of information about what kind of computer related services you can find at the Charles de Gaulle airport Terminal 2E.

Power

Power station :

Power station

Note the french socket only (220 V) bring your adapter if needed !


There is also a socket at the end of each row of chairs :

Hidden socket

Internet access

You can access the internet through the computers available, that they have a USB port available (not shown), so you can charge your telephone for example. I believe this is free. Internet access costs is displayed below.

Internet access

Internet access

WiFi

The first 15 minutes of Internet WiFi connection are free, then you pay for additional Internet use.

• 30 mn sold 1,90 €
• 90 mn sold 4,50 €
• Unlimited sold 9,90 €

Follow this link for more information.

Shops

They are at least two technology shops, FNAC and Virgin, where you can probably buy a power socket adapter, USB cable, etc. The list of available boutiques is available here.

How To Badly Choose Your Seat

747-400 Air France

There is one great resource on the internet call SeatGuru, it's also a smartphone app, for those interested.
Cleverly used it allows you to choose a good seat... Not exactly what I did.
See the red box row 48 ? This is where I'll be seated. Total winnage lossage.

The thing is that the only info I used was "boeing 747-400", and this is NOT enough. You must now :

• the exact flight number (eg. AF438)
• the airline name (eg. Air France)

several flights could match, SeatGuru will display a table like this one :

Flight choices

You must triple check everything, because the seats are VERY different from one company to the other.

I thought I would have been in some green spot. I won't.

I don't know the 747, but it seems that the upper deck is even better, but Air France charges a little bit more to have a seat there.

747-400 upper deck