The Mexican department of tourism should give Francisco and Maria Jose a special medal for their enthusiastic promotion of Mexican culture and places of interest.

Staying at their beautiful, quiet house near the park that houses the world famous museum of anthropology and other galleries made our first foray into Mexico City an easy walking experience.

We especially appreciated the extra time Francisco and Maria Jose and Maya took from their busy schedules to direct us to many other "must sees" on our list as well as suggesting others. As this was our first trip to Mexico and we speak only ten words of Spanish we needed some "hand holding" at the beginning. We were walked to the subway (metro) station, shown how to buy tickets, how to navigate, loaned a cell phone just in case, and then never looked back. We were subsequently able to travel all over town to different places and back at all hours and thus make the most of our eight day stay. Our hosts also made sure safe and reasonable taxis showed up for other trips and the airport.

Breakfasts were a pleasant buffet of cereal, fruit, yoghurt, coffee and tea and available until 11:00 a.m. for the jet-lagged.

Although we are not normally fans of dogs in the house these two were friendly to guests and so well cared-for there was not a dog hair in sight. They also added to the sense of security to the place.

It was also very nice of our relaxed hosts to invite their guests into other parts of the house so that we never felt constrained to the bedroom, comfortable as it common was.

Thank you Francisco and Maria Jose and Maya plus small friend and also the pleasant house staff. We would definitely like to come back.