My friend Patti and I stayed with Dora and Daniel (and Chris) when we came last week to explore Mexico City. The house truly is the house of light and color: big windows in the bedroom, comfortable beds and bathroom. Home with a great number of welcoming spaces, open kitchen access with a daily fruit/yogurt/grain/coffee/tea breakfast. It is also 2 blocks from the Copilco subway stop, so we conducted our daily forays on the Metro, connecting to other lines at “Correspondencias,” never waiting for more than 4 minutes for the next train, and all for 2.5 cents from one end of the city to the other!

But the best part of the visit was the warm welcome of our hosts. Both Dora and Daniel speak perfect English, but as our goal was to speak Spanish, we conducted our conversations in Slow Spanish. Dora would patiently talk with us about our planned explorations of the day, answer our questions, and then debrief our adventures when we returned in the evening. We look forward some day to returning, enjoying M.C.’s wonderful art, and catching up with their family news.