Personally? I wouldn't call myself one of Acapulco's biggest fans. Though the water is clean and inviting, the town itself can be dirty, loud, crazy, scorching. And I rarely have luck with the food there, for some bizarre reason. Everything's extreme: meat, for example, is served either carbonised or raw, bread gets stale within 2 seconds, as does granola, yoghurt tastes like sour milk in the best of cases, I mean -
But having said that, there are things to be appreciated about it.
For starters, it's the closest beach. The Autopista (thanks, Anon!) del Sol (now being renamed Ruta 2010, possibly because 2010 is Mexico's 200th Independence anniversary as well as its Revolution's 100th anniversary) leads from Mexico City to Cuernavaca, Tequesquitengo, then Chilpancingo and Acapulco within about 4 hours door to door (if you live within a 30-minute drive of the periférico's exit). A lot of people from Mexico City go to Acapulco as regularly as every weekend - say they have a weekend house there and can afford the 30-minute flight 4 times a month. Or they have a bright red Ferrari, like the 20-year-old we saw speeding past us nearing Cuernavaca, and then being stopped by the army for inspection 10 minutes later. They couldn't have fined her, she'd literally just finished paying the toll, but I bet those soldiers wanted to take a closer look at her car. And I had just said, after she overtook us, that "*my* Ferrari" would be "canary yellow and a convertible", followed, after a pregnant pause, by the nastier, "20 year-olds shouldn't really be driving Ferraris, now, should they. I mean, where do they go from there?"
Anyway, don't get me wrong. Mexico is a poor country and its poverty is evident everywhere. I am lucky. I don't own a Ferrari but I have a privileged lifestyle... "Chilangos", is what Mexico City residents are called outside Mexico City. But most people in Mexico are not as fortunate.
In any event! back to Acapulco - it can be quaint and relaxed, especially if you go with people you're familiar with. Yes, I'd say Acapulco is a place for family and friends, though we saw a group of US bird-watchers who seemed to be enjoying themselves.
It can also be great fun.
2 comments:
Para empezar, se dice "autopista del sol" no "ciclopista del sol"
Como segundo comentario, te informo que se le llama chilango a cualquier persona que venga de otro estado y viva en el Distrito Federal. Los que hemos vivido en el D.F. toda nuestra vida, nos llamamos defeños.
Hola Anon,
Muchas gracias por tu comentario... efectivamente, qué PENDEX confundir la Ciclopista con la Autopista - ruego tus disculpas.
Lo del "Chilango" es bastante ambiguo, francamente )o sea que nunca lo he entendido), pero traté de explicarlo de la mejor manera posible... lamento que no haya sido del todo correcta. ¡Menos mal que este es un blog donde se vale equivocarse! Si no, de seguro te caería bastante gorda, porque hago eso de equivocarme bastante a menudo....
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