Depeche Mode in Mexicocity, March 13 or "who needs feets when I've got wings to fly?"

Next morning I ran through the he busy awakening city and after running I had  a " cold brew" coffee at Starbucks, you can find Starbucks at every corner in the citycenter. 

There is such a hard difference between rich and poor people in Mexicocity, for us Europeans the life circumstances are unbelievable. The most of the people live there, are poorer than the most people in Europe. The food isn't very good, to much flour in every meal, so many thick overwaisted people. The well feeded people looks good, the poor people are thick and the people at the end of the foodchain are so skinny.....

After breakfast we drove to the pyramides of Teotihuacan, an old pre-aztec city, with the sun and moon pyramides. The pyramides are from year 100, so amazing. We climbed to both pyramides and spent a wonderful and sunny day there 40 kilometres outsides of México.

A quite soothing atmosphere, a special place, so old, full of myth for a human like me, very inspiring, mediative!

Then back with a bus to the city, we visited the complex of churches with the main church " Basilica of the virgin of Guadaloupe". After the Vatican it is the most visited catholic Pilgrim site.

The Basilica is an extraordinary building and one of the biggest churches of the world. It is part of Guadaloupe, a place of several churches. 

Then we were so thirsty and found a very cool place. A kind of cantina or bar only for locals: " La Nueva Guadalupana". We ordered two kinds of Tequila. All the people looked to us, probably no tourist will come to this place. The waiter, an older man, he looked like Manolito / Henry Darrow of" High Chaparal", was so amazing friendly to us. He gave us two plates with food only for try, it costed nothing. 

Later we had diner, I had a vegan Quinoa bowl! Great.

Next morning after the breakfast I took the metro to the " blue house" of Frida Kahlo. I waited more than an hour to go in but it was it worth it. I love her work and took a deep breath of her living and working atmosphere. Such a great woman, unbelievable artist. From her is the sentence: "Who needs feets, when I've got wings to fly!" She said this a short while before she died and one of her legs was amputated. According to this I visited the " Palacio Nacional" where I saw the beautiful wall paintings ( murales) of her husband Diego Rivera!

There are not enough words to describe the beauty of this paintings in this old building, where the government has his place.

And then finally a total vegan experience at " Gatorta", a street food stall near my hotel. I had two vegan " Chorizo style" tacos with a selfmade lemonade only for 40 mexican dollars. This meal made me so happy. 

I know that Martin Gore visiting in every town a vegan hotspot. Hope he discovered this small peacefull place. And I hope to meet him one day in a vegan restaurant, I'd like to speak with him about vegan lifestyle and his experiences on this tour. " Globalveganspirittour!"

The time came to go to the second concert in Mexicocity! This time we had front of the stage tickets, what meaned you found place in the first third of the standing area! All people stood very close to each other but no problem for us bcause we are the biggest people there, like aliens, and we had a good view to the catwalk.

Dave's stage--fright was totally gone and he delivered a very relaxed good show. I enjoyed every moment of it. 

The second show wasn't so good like the first one, songs like " Cover me" and " Everything counts" aren't so good like in Europe. But a " Policy of truth" ( for " Where is the revolution") thrilled the people much more. 

Andy made many funny moves to this song and I had to laugh about, I saw on the screens that Dave laughed about him, too.

"Stripped"! Dave looked really strained as he sang it.

Martin sang "Judas" and later " Somebody". This is one of my favorite songs sang by Mr. Gore and I was really happy to hear it again in Méxicocity.

Dave thanked Martin, and "the magic magnicifent" Jingle Jellyfish Gordeno, drum clown Eigner and Fletch. Nobody of the band is able to thank Dave. So he started to thank himself at the last show and did it again. He clapped his chest and smiled! He is really the best entertainer, a machine which is running like a precision clockwork! 

"I feel you" for " Question of time" and again "Personal Jesus" took me from the ground. 

"Who needs feets, when I've got wings to fly....?

A wonderful time in Mexicocity ended with this great second concert here. What a good start for our journey. Four lucky days in this Mexopolis with all this facettes of a city, I've never knew before! 

Depeche Mode in Mexicocity, March 11 or " I thank you for bringing me here!"

Time was running so fast after the Moscow concert, because there was so much to do before the great adventure trip to Southamerica.

Saturday morning we finally left a cold and rainy Cologne with a flight via Amsterdam to Mexicocity, our first destination. After 14 hours travelling we arrived in the early evening in Mexicocity. 

 

Ciudad de México, 8,8 millions residents and about 20 millions residents the whole region surround Mexicocity.

As we left the airplane we all three ( I travel with my friends Arkadi and Isa) have a feeling of dizziness. We were really surprised, Mexicocity lay on 2300 meters altitude. 

Our journey will bring us to Cusco and Machu Picchu Mountain, both about 3000meters altitude and I got really anxious.

We took a " Uber" ( private taxi ) to our Hotel. Hotel PF, located in the Zona Rosa, a quarter with many restaurants and cafés, near by the "Angel of independance", a monument really simular to the " Siegessäule " in Berlin.

The hotel was very clean and comfortable.

We had dinner, not easy for me as a vegan in this city.....

After dinner we went to bed, we all had a few symtoms of Anoxia!

But next morning everything was fine and after a breakfast ( fruits and juice for me), we started a walk through the city passing the Angel, the Parc Alameda, the " Palacio de Belles Artes".

We took the elevator to the observation deck of the "Torre Latinamericana", from where we had a wonderful sight over this huge " Metropolis"!

Next station was the "Plaza de la Constitución", called by the Mexicans " Zocalo".

A huge place with an ultradimensional flag of México!

The Zocalo is the heart of the city and this place was even the heart of the old Aztec City Tenochtitlan.

You can visit the rest of an old aztec temple there. 

But we visited the Cathedral of Mexicocity, the biggest cathedral of Northamerica.

Then it was time for an early dinner, we visited the " Bar Bukowski" in the calle Hamburgos. All streets in our quarter have names of big cities. There we drank our first Margarita. But it was a myth, that México is the country of Margarita. They drank usually Tequila, the Margarita was created in the USA, in the period of prohibition, not in México!

I got there in the Bar Bukowski vegan tacos, so I went happy to our first concert of this leg.

We used the Metro, the price for one ticket was 5 Mexican $. 0,25 Euro. 

The Metro net is easy to understand, every station has a special sign, it is not necessary to read a map. I think it is made for all the people who cannot read and unluckely I think this is not rare in México. I saw many childrens running through the streets when they have to be in school, I ask myself if they don't have school attendance?

The Baseball stadium Foro Sol has a concert capacity of 55000, but the newspapers wrote next morning, more then 60000 people saw Depeche Mode at Foro Sol.

Around the stadiums were so many small stalls with unofficial merchandise of Depeche Mode stuff. I've never seen this before, wow. We needed a long time to buy a few good t-shirts. Inside the stadium I bought two official T-shirts. 

One with the Southamerican dates and one only made for the Mexican concert with the mexican flag on the left arm. Hope there will be such a shirt for every country they will play in Southamerica!

We had places really far away from the stage, but I love to have this great view over the whole stadium. You could breathe the amazing athmosphere.

They were many flying beer sellers, so we didn't have to leave our place the whole evening for getting enough beer.

Finally Depeche Mode entering the stage. The sunset was very early and so it was already dark. Sometimes I hate all the people with their mobile phones, but they had a great fan action there. In one area all the people had red cellphone screens, in the next white screens and then green screens. The Mexican flag! That looked so beautiful.

Nobody was seating, the atmosphere was unbelievable.

I couldn't believe, I was finally in México!!! It was a longlife dream of mine to visit Southamerica and see Depeche Mode! Ok, México isn't Southamerica, but I started my trip through Southamerica there and I was so happy to be part of this great concert. Cannot describe it...

Unfortunately the sound wasn't very good, but we had a great concert ( no setlist changes except Martin sang  "Strangelove" again).

But inspite of all this circumstances it was an amazing concert.

The first three songs Dave was very concentrated, no " thank you", he only sang his songs.

But after his powerful "Good evening Mexicocity!" he was tbe entertainer we know.

He made an unbelievable show, he is a kind of tumbler, we saw his funny moves on the two big side screenings! He got so many applause, the audience loved him so much.

"Cover me", the moon dance was so beautiful and two songs later "Home": I got out of my socks!

These words: " And I thank you for bringing me here", I was deeply touched and tears ran from my eyes. 52 years old and a longlife dream came true. I'm so thankful for this!!!!

"Everything counts" was great but not as much we knew from Europe.

But "Enjoy the silence" and " Never let me down" were amazing, what a party.

Best song was " Personal Jesus"! I sang so loud as I could " Reach out and touch Dave" with the fans surround me, happy to be a part of them.

Dave was the Personal Jesus of this Mexican fans, you could touch this feeling.

After the Goodbye the stadium rested a short while without light. We saw a few cars leaving the stadium: Depeche Mode! 

Then we walked again through the streets of unofficial merchandise and picked up a taxi to go back to our hotel and fell happy into our beds!!

And I thank you 

for bringing me here.....