One year ago, we revealed that we were working on a Mexico City guidebook. Today, the first edition of that book--Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City--is over 500 pages long (and over 60,000 words), and with our latest update, we've decided to take it out of preview. It's not "done"--it will never be done--but we've written reasonably complete chapters for each of the major neighborhoods we want to cover. And so it's time to take the next step.
Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City contains 11 reasonably complete chapters that include introductory material, our recommendations for things to do and where to eat and drink, and specific neighborhood chapters for Centro, Juรกrez and Reforma, Polanco and Chapultepec, Condesa, Roma Norte, Roma Sur, and Coyoacรกn and San รngel. We think of this first edition as being roughly 85 percent complete at this point.
So what's left?
We have major updates planned to Further Afield, the chapter that will cover sights and other places outside the center of Mexico City, plus our three reference chapters: Connections, Practicalities, and Resources. We have dozens of restaurant reviews we'd like to add. More walks. We have to update the Google Maps-based maps that we link to from the book. And probably more that I'm not remembering at the moment.
But our goal is simple enough: To get the book into great shape by mid-year--where those additional chapters are what we think of as "reasonably complete"--and then keep updating it each month going forward. When the new year rolls around, we'll switch over to a second edition of the book. We have big plans for that, of course. But first things first.
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Paul