Flightline 102 - High Wycombe to Heathrow Airport - Central Bus Station

​​Posted: June 28, 2025 | Tagged: United Kingdom
Flightline 102 bus from High Wycombe to London Heathrow Central Bus Station, run by Carousel Buses.
The Flightline 102 bus runs from High Wycombe bus station to Heathrow Central Bus Station via Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, and Uxbridge. It operates 24/7 with departures every 30 minutes during the daytime and a skeleton service throughout the night.

Under the National Bus Fare Cap, single bus fares on routes included in the scheme will be capped at £3 until the end of 2025.

Check the schedule of the Flightline 102 Bus here.

The Mexico City Integrated Transit Card

​​Posted: June 28, 2025 | Tagged: Mexico
Guide for buying, using and topping up your Mexico City Metro Card
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The Mexico City Metro Card is officially known as the Integrated Mobility Card.
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Turnstile Metro
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Metrobus Line 7
trolley bus 
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Airport Review: Felipe Ángeles International Airport - Mexico City's New Airport

​​Posted: January 5, 2025 | Tagged: Mexico
I was embarking on my first trip as a married man. I was going to the Dominican Republic, another first. I'd booked Arajet, and they fly out of the Felipe Angeles International Airport, Mexico City's new airport. So, a hat trick of firsts.

It opened in 2022 during the pandemic, much to the anger of the Chilangos because of the distance from Mexico City. The highway also passed through a bad area after it crossed into Mexico State and the fact that it was operational before they had set up the bus routes. The Tren Suburbano was also set to link BuenaVista to the new airport, and as of March 2025, it is still not operational, more than a year behind schedule. But once the line is up and running, I'll be using it to bring your the best information as you have come to expect on this blog.

I took the ETN Turistar bus out of Terminal Central de Autobuses del Norte. I had taken the bus at 6.30 pm for an 11:50 pm flight, and the bus took just one hour. I didn't want to be travelling on that route, too late at night. This meant I had a few hours to have a look around, in particular at the transport options for getting to Mexico City, as there is very little info out there. And yes, it was my first time to use this airport, so why not take the chance and do a blog post.

Transport from Mexico City - AIFA / Felipe Angeles Airport

There is a bus station at the airport. It is opposite Puerta 5. There are 6 bus companies: ETN, Autovia Pegasso, Flecha Roja, ADO, Premiera Plus and Pullman de Morelos.

Between them, they serve, Mexico City (Tapo, Terminal Central de Autobuses del Norte, Indios Verdes, Benito Juarez Airport, Revolucion, Angel, Auditorio and Observatorio), Cuernavaca, Querétaro, San Juan del Río, Celaya, León, Puebla and Pachuca.

Departures to Central del Norte:
Departures to El Angel on Paseo de la Reforma:
Flecha Roja departures to 5 stops in CDMX:
Pullman de Morelos departures to Cuernavaca:
Primera Plus departures to Queretaro, San Juan del Rio, Celaya and Leon:
ADO departures to Tapo bus station and Aeropuerto Benito Juarez AICM:
The Tren Suburbano will be an option soon, when they have completed it.

ATMs and Currency Exchange Offices

Domestic Arrivals: BBVA, HSBC, Banca Mifel

International Arrivals: JoKama Exchange (No ATMs in the International arrivals section?)

Domestic Departures: Banorte, Scotiabank, Banamex (why put ATMs in the departures?)

Parque Hundido: Mexico City's Sunken Park

​​Posted: February 10, 2025 | Tagged: Mexico, Mexico City

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​​Posted: January 5, 2025 | Tagged: Travel Hacks

Things to See and Do in Mexico City: Miguel Lerdo de Tejada Library

Posted: January, 2025 | Tagged: Mexico, Mexico City
Opening hours: Monday to Friday: 9 am to 5:30 pm Saturday: 10 am to 2 pm Sunday: closed

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Colonia Centro
Centro,
Cuauhtémoc
06040 Ciudad de México.
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Things to See and Do in Mexico City: Tamayo Museum

Posted: January, 2025 | Tagged: Mexico, Mexico City
Visiting The ​Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, one of the most popular museums in Mexico City. 
The building was designed by Mexican architects Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky who received the National Architecture Award for this project. It opened to the public in 1981.

It is free to visit on Sundays
When I visited in late January, 2025, there were 4 expositions:
  1. Tamayo Mujeres
  2. Otras Mundas
  3. David Medalla
  4. Luiza Paulo Nazareth

Art and especially contemporary art is a very personal things and the art on display here are temporary expositions so they might not appeal to all.

​Enjoy the photos:

​Planning your visit to the Tamayo Museum

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am to 6 pm

​Entrance ticket: 95 pesos. Free on Sunday

Av. P.º de la Reforma 51
Polanco
Bosque de Chapultepec I Secc,
Miguel Hidalgo
11580 Ciudad de México.
​CDMX

If you are pushed for time, the Anthropology Museum and the the Museum of Modern Art are very close so you could, if you don't linger, complete a hat-trick of 3 of the best museums Mexico City has to offer.

Check the official Museo Tamayo website.

Things to See and Do in Mexico City: Sitio de Memoria Circular de Morelia

Posted: January, 2025 | Tagged: Mexico, Mexico City
Monday to Friday: 10 am to 5 pm
https://sitiosdememoria.segob.gob.mx/es/SitiosDeMemoria/home

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Posted: January, 2025 | Tagged: Mexico, Mexico City

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​​Posted: January, 2025 | Tagged: Mexico City
There are 1000s of restaurants in Mexico City. How is it possible to write a blog post, "10 Best Restaurants in Mexico City" without having visited at least 80% of them.

Even in Roma Norte, the Gringolandia of Mexico City, there are a good few hundred restaurants.

Picking the best 10 would be an impossible task. And I always ask, Best for who? In this case, best for me. These are my favourites.

Mostly we eat at home, and I have to say, Miss CDMX who has recently become my wife, yes, we tied the knot, cooks a damn fine meal.

These are the ones we go to on a Friday night or on a Saturday.

1. The El Habanerito

The El Habanerito will always have a place in our hearts. It's where we had our wedding breakfast. 

2. Caldos de Gallina "Luis"

3. C.O.M.E.

Old School Travel Blogger

​​Posted: January, 2025
This travel blog is just over 5 years old and it is rather unique in that it is one of the few blogs out there these days where the posts are not written around ads or affiliate links.

The truth be told, I hate ads cluttering up my website. They distract the reader, don't you think? And it would be wrong to hope that readers will click on any affiliate link when I never click on them myself. And have always had the train of thought where websites running affiliate ads need a massive amount to make it worthwhile.

I run my blog because it offers me a creative outlet beyond the travels themselves. I used to love fiddling around with the code, that was, until I got it looking exactly how I wanted it.

I chose a theme at random, deleted all the template pages, started with a blank page and then adjusted font sizes, margins, line heights and page widths, and it took me a long time to get it right. There is no Weebly manual on how to customise your blog. Learning by doing, changing 1 piece of code to see what gives.

Now, I love going places just for kicks and then writing about how I got there and what I did once I was there. The onus is always on doing things on the cheap. I am an original shoestring traveller. Remember those old Lonely Planet Guides, Southeast Asia on a Shoestring? 

My number one passion is to do crazy long overland journeys. I have backpacked - travelled with a backpack - on some epic trips: London to Beirut, Singapore to Islamabad, Hong Kong to the Aral Sea, London to Monrovia, Istanbul to Baku, Panama City to Mexico City and the iconic Cairo to Cape Town - all without flying. Hate those who declare they went overland, just leaving out the bit where they took a flight. I need to keep my credibility! Once you start down that road, where does it end. A few exaggerations thrown in for good measure, just to boost rankings and getting clicks.

I saw one post on insta, some knob going on about "I travelled to Mauritania, one of the most dangerous countries in the world", dude, Mauritania is as safe as fuck. From the 193 member states/countries, I could tell you of 150 that are more dangerous than Mauritania.

In this modern age where travellers love to bang on about how it is the journey that matters then just blog about the destination.

I travel and I bring you the narrative.

I am a die hard, old school travel blogger

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Source of the River Nile Burundi
Returning to Naivasha
Crossing the Khunjerab Pass
Summiting Mt Kinabalu in Borneo
Cairo to Cape Town

Thing I Do Before Going To A New Country

Posted: October 10, 2024 | Tagged: Travel Hacks​

​Save important locations on Google Maps

I am old school. I (almost) never buy a local sim. I travelled perfectly well for 25 years without a smartphone. I never got lost, I never spent the night on the street. I always found my way around. Back in the day we carried a Lonely Planet Guide Book. 

These days, I don't use the Lonely Planet. But I do have a smartphone although I am Wi-Fi loyal. Which means I don't have immediate access to information on line so there are certain things I have to do before going to a new country.


Google Maps and Maps Me both work well offline. They simply replace the maps found in old guidebooks.

I save important locations such as airports, train and bus stations. If possible, I save the location of bus stops for getting from the airport to the city centre. Sometimes airports don't have dedicated airport buses so I use local buses which pass near by.

I save locations of the hostels and supermarkets.

And having studied the map a little, I can get around for the most part without having to refer to my phone.

Download maps of the local transport network

If a town or city is big enough to have a metro, I will download the map if available. If there isn't a metro, I will generally walk everywhere.

Make a Note of Exchange Rates

Yes I have a smartphone but I don't feel the need to download every app going. The Currency converter & money transfer app by XE is one app I just don't feel the need to have.

You know what I do? Yes, I am old school. I check the rates online and take screenshots of the exchange rates. This is for back up. Forever day use, I like to refer to my note book. And in the event of losing my phone, I can still know what the rates are and having written them down once, they kinda stick in my head anyway.

I always right down the currency conversions like this:

1 USD = 20 MXN (I always travel using USD as a reference)
1 GBP = 24 MXN (I need to have this when withdrawal money from an ATM and will note how many Mexican Pesos I can get for a maximum of 200 GBP).

And for quick reference I make notes like this:
10 MXN = 50 cents
20 MXN = 1 USD
30 MXN = 1.50 USD
40 MXN = 2 USD
50 MXN = 2.5 USD
100 MXN = 5 USD
500 MXN = 25 USD
1000 MXN = 50 USD
1 USD = 20 MXN
2 USD = 40 MXN
5 USD = 100 MXN
​10 USD = 200 MXN
15 USD = 300 MXN
20 USD = 400 MXN
50 USD = 1000 MXN
100 USD = 2000 MXN
Of course, I have used Mexican Pesos as an example, which is easy to calculate in your head, but when you get a currency like the Indonesian Rupiah, where the exchange rate is 15695.10 to the dollar, good luck. 

Obtain Local Currency

I like to travel overland. I like to take a bus to the border, walk across and then get another bus to wherever I am going. And that necessitates having local currency to hand. Having travelled to more than 100 countries, most border crossings don't have ATMs. Many times, there aren't even any Bureau de Change offices or even guys offering to change money.

If possible, I like to get 10 USDs worth of local currency before I cross the border for such situations. I ask other travellers if they have any left over currency they are willing to exchange or find a money changer then I dont have to piss around trying to find one after crossing the border, enough to get me to the first decent town.

 Always be prepared and you wont go far wromg

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Posted: October 10, 2024 | Tagged: Health

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Posted: October 10, 2024 | Tagged: Health
A 330ml serving of Coca-Cola contains 35 grams of sugar, that's about 8 teaspoons of granulated sugar
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https://www.rethinksugarydrink.org.au/how-much-sugar

Food Labelling in Mexico

​Posted: October 10, 2024 | Tagged: Health
Back in March 2020, new laws were introduced in Mexico regarding food labelling. Warning symbols must be placed on all processed foods.
  • Excessive Calories
  • Excessive Sodium
  • Excessive Trans Fats
  • Excessive Sugars
  • Excessive Saturated Tats
This is just to provide information for all the health-conscious travellers in Mexico who have ever wondered what the symbols mean.

And when the item is less than a certain size, there are some symbols, simply 1 to 5, based on the number of critical nutrients that exceed the threshold values.
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