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Mexico: Expectation vs Reality

In life I think that it is very easy to pick up little bits of information and take them as fact. Then we use these facts to form images and expectations in our heads that aren't always anything like the reality. Most of the time we don't get the full picture until we can actually experience something and only then can we realise how far away from the truth our titbits of knowledge really were.  Lovely Mexico City Before I went to Mexico this is exactly what happened. Sure, I sell a lot of Cancun at work; I know Mexico is where you go if you want the Caribbean white sands and sunshine but don't want to pay insane Caribbean prices; and I love tacos as much as the next person, but when it came to knowing anything significant about Mexico I was pretty much clueless. I'd read my guidebook, I know the travel agent spiel but at the end of the day I didn't understand Mexican culture or know anything about it. Over two weeks in Mexico expectations I didn't eve