“GIN GIN” The Place For Gin in Mexico City…

Un secreto a voces que ha despertado la curiosidad de los locales y descubierto nuevas formas de consumir el gin. El Gin Gin es un espacio ideal para tomar cocteles con ginebra y disfrutar de un menú reducido pero muy exquisito. Un Kitchen-bar dedicado a servir en un ambiente muy misterioso, poco tradicional y muy interesante; la decoración incita al secreto y hace de una casa vieja, un lugar increíble para disfrutar los mejores gins de la ciudad. 

Pueden probar una gran variedad de cocteles, incluso cocteles vírgenes para todos aquellos abstemios. Es un lugar que vale la pena visitar, la música es para todo tipo de gustos y a través de su Página de Facebook pueden observar los diferentes DJ’s y músicos invitados que estarán tocando durante la semana. Un bar ubicado en una de las zonas más hispters y “trendys” de la Ciudad de Mexico, La Roma. Dónde la luz tenue y las plantas crean una atmósfera acogedora y llamativa para esta espectacular ciudad. Para conservar la intriga y el misterio las reservaciones se realizan únicamente a través de su Página de Facebook.

¡Gracias por leer y espero les guste mi recomendación!

A new “speakeasy” that has conquered the inevitable lifestyle of the locals in Mexico City. It is a Kitchen-bar located in one of the trendiest and hipster zones in Mexico called La Roma. The ambience has its own mystery and charm that will surprise you every time. People come here for the Gin cocktails prepared exquisitely by the bartender, definitely the best gins in the city.

The menu is small but the dishes are delicious, I completely recommend trying the peanuts with olives seasoned in spicy spices and the pizzas. I don’t remember the name of my favorite cocktails but one was made with cucumber, sake, gin, and tonic; and the other one had a very special gin mixed with the juice of the olives and a splash of tonic water. They sound simple but they are completely astounding. The decoration is quite peculiar and interesting but cool and classy at the same time. It is a place worth visiting. In order to keep the secrecy, reservations are made through the Facebook page. Hope you like the recommendations and always remember to Keep it Local!

 

Rainy days…

 

“You can’t have a rainbow without the rain.”

“Anyone who thinks that sunshine is pure happiness has never danced in the rain.”

Even the rainy days should be part of our majestic plan of life. Because whatever happens, just remember that it never rains forever… How are you feeling this Friday? Today I am feeling grateful for all the rainy days and rainy moments that gave me my own rainbows in life.

This is ME…

 

PH by Fernanda Casillas

“We age not by years, but by stories.”

“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.” Coco Chanel

“Between childhood and adulthood there’s this instant called life.”

 That day when we most feel vulnerable, that day that melancholy fills up our entire system, that day when we realice that another year has passed and we believe we stood still because it passed incredibly fast. That day, the day you call your “birthday.” For most people is a matter of celebration, an excuse to get together, to celebrate life; for others is a reminder of age, a reminder of life, a reminder of existence; and for the rest is a day a regular day in which they get to attend a significant but irregular number of phone calls from people who care and love them. What is it for you? Is it the best day of your life, do you like attention, do you seek comfort in people when they tell you they love you? Do you celebrate your life or run from it?

We Wait… And We Wait

“Hope but never expect, move forward but never wait.” 

“How foolish is a man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past.” Ali Ibn Abi Talib

We live, we struggle, we fight, we cry, we encounter, we race, we rush, and sometimes, most of the times: we just wait… We wait for tomorrow in despair of hoping for better circumstances, for better places, for better timing. We wait for the future so that it can repair our past, so it can affect our present. We wait for life to come up with better and greater ideas about our destiny, we wait for that perfect moment that will change our lives. It’s like when we take a picture, we take several of them so that one, only one, will turn out perfect so we can share it with the world, and then what? Who will be happy with this “perfect” picture, you? me? the people who see it? or even nobody? because maybe that “perfect” picture is no longer perfect afterwards. I don’t know if I’m making sense, probably I am not, but we don’t realice that all the other pictures are better than the “perfect” one, because they show exactly who we are, they don’t show our “fake” pose.

We’ll Always Have Paris… Part II

This is the last post about the trip. The last two days we were in Paris. I will make a list at the end of several places that my friends recommended us, so you can have more information.

Day #3:

– This day we took the Bus Tour as we did in the other destinations. We wanted to have a full tour so we could do a little sightseeing in Paris. We went around the major tourist’s attractions and then we got down at Champs Elysees. Since it was raining we took this day to do some shopping and visit the stores. We walked through Rue de Rivoli and Rue de St Honoré, there were a lot of high end boutiques so we just strolled around and did some window shopping.

– After walking all around, we had diner at Café Fouquet’s, a nice restaurant in Champs Elysées. We didn’t want to have diner in this area because I consider it too “tourist-y” for me, but we did want to have a nice view of Paris at night. The food was delicious, but too expensive for the things we ate. We had escargots, tomato salad, onion soup, a bottle of rose wine and we paid around 250 Euros, so I would not recommend eating on these street unless you are looking for a high end gourmet place with a view.

What if…

“The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”

                                                                    Vladimir Nabokov

“You will always be my biggest what if.”

What if we create what we dream of. What if we conquer our fears and live the way we want to. What if our life is more wonderful than what we take for granted. What if we are living the life we weren’t meant to live. What if we let go of the things, places, and people that were supposed to change our lives for good. What if we just lost the opportunity to become more than we ever dreamt of. What if our lives will never be the same. What if we forgive who has hurt us. What if we let life surprise us. What if, what if, what if… These and many more “what if”s are the ones that make our life miserable. We get stuck in the past or we begin to live in the future without understanding that what we got right now is today! We live by dreams, just dreams, instead of making them the end of the “what if,” we constantly lack of courage to begin to live the rest of our lives. I think we create what we are afraid to do only when we have no more time or when something unexpected happens and we can’t do it anymore.

We’ll always have Paris… Part I

These will be the last two posts about the trip we took to Europe. Our last stop was the amazing and beautiful Paris, and since I have more information I will divide it in two posts. Hope you like them.

I have visited Paris before, but it was the Paris we got to see with our parents, the Paris that just seems “nice,” “beautiful,” “big,” and “worth visiting.” However, this time was different, being in the most romantic and cosmopolitan city in the world with the love of my life, made me see a different Paris. A Paris full of colors, culture, romanticism, joy, art, fashion, extravaganza, and amazing architecture and views even at night. I think this is one  of the few cities in the world that its “midnights” are worth experimenting and specially worth living once in a while. I loved this city, this is what we did and what I recommend visiting if you only have four days.

DAY #1:

– We stayed at the W Hotel near the Opera, which I completely recommend since its location is perfect, we were walking distance from almost everything or just two or three stops away on the subway. After checking in we went to have breakfast to a restaurant called Angelina, a truly Parisian gem. Angelina was founded in 1903 by the confectioner Antoine Rumperlmayer, its elegance, sophistication, and glamour make it a unique place to have breakfast, and lunch among the locals and tourists. Its trademarks to enjoy are: African hot chocolate composed of three different African cocoa, and the Mont Blanc, a light meringue with whipped cream and chestnut paste.

End of Summer…

 

Ph by Ashley Frangie

“The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others.”

We all tend to believe that the things that happen to us, only happen to us; that when people hurt us, they do it intentionally, that everything that surrounds us is for the sake of making our life the way it is. We never stop to think that maybe, just maybe, what people do to us is the reflection of their own personal problems, their own unhappiness, their own despairs. I think that the greatest virtue we could all have is compassion, we never know what that other person was going through when they did the things that hurt us; or maybe we look for perfection in everything when mistakes happen around the corner everyday. We have to be compassionate about others, about their problems, about their life. I believe it is the greatest form of love. Compassion shows our human side, our belief that we all ride together in this enormous air balloon called world that will eventually break; even though we all have different problems and circumstances in life, we all suffer, so believe in the greater power of empathy and don’t be careless or blind to what others might be going through. How are you feeling this Friday? Today, I am feeling remorse for the way I am sometimes with the people that care about me, for the times compassion wasn’t in my heart and I forgot that people might have bigger problems that I.