Started out the day, as usual, at Publico working. We had an event later that evening so to beat traffic I headed over to work at Cafebreria El Pendulo, a cool cafe/bookshop. After my motivation for work had waned but we still had some time before our event in the evening I tried to meet some folks for a drink at Scotch. While I was waiting for everyone I was struck by how friendly everyone at this bar was. Only to learn that I had crashed a Christmas party for a Mexican bank. But everyone was very friendly about it and offered to let me stay. However, crashing a party by yourself is one thing. Crashing it was a whole crowd is another so I decided to meet everyone at a different place, Limantour. After that we had a really good networking event Hotel Habita with some locals.
Category: Daily
Day 194 | December 6
Headed over to Publico to work in the morning and then had lunch at Tacos Don Juan, a great place where tacos can be had for something like a buck a piece. In the evening we had a really interesting event where some local independent film makers talked about the film industry in Mexico.
Day 193 | December 5
Headed over to our new workspace Publico in the morning. Another nice spot, although not as nice as many of our others. For lunch some of us went to Contramar which is an excellent seafood restaurant not too far from the office nor my place. Afterwards we went to Chuchito Perez and sat on the terrace there and “digital nomaded” for the rest of the day. In the evening we had our official orientation and welcome event back on the roof at Publico which was very well done.
Day 192 | December 4
We rolled into Mexico City at 5am. Five hours after we departed Madrid but after a 12 hour plane ride. Passport control was a total mob scene even at 5am and was the last thing anyone wanted to endure after a 12 hour flight. Despite what it felt like things moved at an ok pace and I made it to my new apartment in about three hours from landing. Sadly my keys didn’t work but luckily my roommate had already arrived and she was able to let me in. Some of us went out for breakfast in the neighborhood at Crepes & Waffles. It was amazing after being on a plane for that long but I don’t think I’d go back.
I headed over to Pasion del Cielo, a coffee shop, to try and catch up with work and the world in general after our trip but wasn’t very productive so I opted instead to go for lunch to La Casa de Tono which was totally slammed and had great food. In the evening we had welcome drinks at this place Bellini which is (supposedly) the largest rotating restaurant in the world. As the sign outside was good enough to tell me… It was a cool view but as there were so many of us we were quite packed in! After this… 31 hour day I was beat and headed home.
Day 191 | December 3
This is it for Valencia. I had to be out of my apartment by noon and I won’t arrive at my new place until 7am Mexico City time which gives me a solid 26 hours on the road over the course of the coming days. We all met up at Wayco and took a bus to the airport from there. The flight to Madrid is only about 45 minutes but then we had a four hour layover there and our flight didn’t depart for Mexico City until midnight. That was a 12 hour direct flight that was… rough.
Day 190 | December 2
Another day where I had a ton of work to do so I spent most of the day at home working. I did manage to find some time to workout. This was also our last day in Valencia so I had to get everything packed up for our very long trip to Mexico City tomorrow. In the evening I met some folks for tapas at La Pilareta and then went for drinks at Unic. As these things tend to… the evening steadily elevated until it proved to be a pretty late night.
Day 189 | December 1
After a late night of dancing and facing a very full workload for the next couple of days this was a pretty uneventful day. Literally spent the entire day hunkered down working from home.
Day 188 | November 30
Today we had our “farewell Valencia” party. I worked all day leading up to it. The end/beginning of the month is always hard on me since I get the busiest with work around that time and we are also always changing cities. Our farewell party was at this interesting ice cream place slash bar slash warehouse place with food trucks inside. We had a fella come and lead some salsa dancing and did the usual Remote Year craziness.
Day 187 | November 29
More rain today so I spent the day at home working. It finally broke in the evening so I went out to dinner with some folks at Moma which had a great tasting menu for less than twenty Euros. Since I was trying to dodge the rain I ducked into Cafe de las Horas on the way which had a very nice setting. After dinner we swung by to say goodbye to one of our group members who is leaving us for a while and then popped into this Irish pub Saint Martin’s for a drink.
Day 186 | November 28
It rained all day today. I talked to a local who told me that this is the most rain that they’ve had in the past decade. It meant another day of me being cooped up in the apartment all day and just toiling away. So not much interesting there.