More Mexico City

Mexico City feels like the biggest city I've ever been in. I've been to New York and Seattle, Paris and Tokyo. But this place just seems to be heaving with people. The population is 23 million - just over a third of the population of the UK in one city!

One neighbourhood that I absolutely loved seeing was Coyoacán. An adorable suburb with colourful houses, lovely restaurants and bars and lots of greenery. The most famous of these houses is of course that of Frida Kahlo - her place of birth and death - and the home she shared for some time during her dramatic and dysfunctional relationship with Diego Rivera. Her house is iconically painted royal blue and there are murals of her face in the surrounding streets. Not far from here is also the house of Leon Trotsky, who was good friends with the pair for a significant time. Of course, my Year 12s (going into 13) will know all about this, since we study a whole module on the lives of Frida and Diego, their love and passion for art and communism, and for equal rights for indigenous people.