📖First major book update of 2026

Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City is in its second edition

We’ve been working on our book a lot this past month, focusing mostly on the organization, or layout, of the content. Our goal for this second (2026) edition is to clean the design, add and revise dozens of reviews, photos, and other content, and expand the book with a short chapter describing other places to visit in Mexico for those with longer stays.

Here’s what we’ve done so far.

🖼️ New book cover for the 2026 edition

Each year/edition, we plan to change the cover design to some degree and we debuted our new 2026 edition cover in late December. This is a stunning Day of the Dead photo that we took while friends were visiting and we had almost used it for the first edition before deciding that it had to be a photo of Palacio de Bellas Artes.

🧼 General cleanup

One of the challenges with creating a book in the digital age is that we’d like Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City to work well on smartphones. We feel that many readers will want to refer to the book while they’re out and about exploring the city. And so we include links to maps and specific locations in Google Maps throughout so you can learn more directly from the source.

Of course, there are also links within the book that, when clicked or tapped, will jump to a different place in the book. In the first edition of the book, we adorned each link with an emoji (like ⭐ or 🌴) that we hoped would provide a quick visual cue about the linked-to place. But there were far too many of them, and the book felt a bit busy as a result. So we removed most of those emojis, leaving only a 📌 emoji next to those links that navigate you outside the book to Google Maps.

Aside from that, we also each made passes through the existing text, making small revisions as needed throughout.

📃 Organizational changes

In the first edition, we felt that we were a bit light on content for some neighborhoods, and so we combined them into chapters like Juárez and Reforma, Polanco and Chapultepec, and Coyoacán and San Ángel. For this second edition, we’ve separated each neighborhood into individual chapters and revised the associated maps and content where required.

We also renamed the Further afield chapter to Day trips. This is because we will soon have a new Further afield chapter with content about other places you may wish to visit in Mexico when using Mexico City as a hub. No promises yet, but we think we will have sections about Acapulco, Cancún, Guanajuato, Puebla, San Miguel de Allende, Oaxaca, and Puerto Vallarta this year.

➕ More to come

There’s always more to do, that’s the nature of a guidebook. But in addition to the reviews and other content updates we will add throughout 2026, we will continue fine-tuning the book. The Day trips chapter needs some work, in particular, and we need to update the underlying maps. Please let us know if you find any issues or have any suggestions.

Thanks!

Paul & Steph