Saturday late morning. We left to explore the town and saw, as we passed the entrance, that the botanical garden was open. This is inside the walled grounds of old Dominican monastery and we had heard both that it is very good and that it has limited timings, so we went in. It turned out […]
Good grub
Work was frustrating yesterday as I somehow lost an entire day’s work: a document got corrupted and when it was revived all my edits had disappeared, despite having been saved many times. Anyhow, in the evening we went for our usual coffee to Bartolo (superb and lovely people), and then on for a stroll up […]
Culture traitor
We got a ride to the Puebla outlet mall, not because we intended to shop or even step inside but because we were to be collected from here. Our hostess was waiting and we drove up to San Rafael Tenanyecac, a small village quite near Cacaxtla. Along the way we passed the black obelisk from […]
Mexican baroque
This morning, after a lavish breakfast composed from our purchases from the market yesterday we went down to Santa Maria Tonantzintla, a church which used to be a temple to a mother goddess until it became a church of the Virgin. It is covered in ornate, baroque plasterwork, yes, Mexican baroque. There is ornate plasterwork […]
Painted pyramid
The Gentleman Friend had taken Monday off so we went off to Cacaxtla, where there is a pyramid with its murals still in situ. It was very empty: a single small contingent of school children ahead of us and a small family behind us. The air was very hazy; one could barely tell the land […]
Cinco de Mayo
First, a clarification. In yesterday’s blog post I wrote about the tunnels of the pyramid in Cholula, imagining they were built for some sort of ritual purpose, but some reading on Wikipedia today tells me that in fact they were excavated by archaeologists. I am joined, I’m sure, by the archaeologists of the future, post […]
Another world
Yesterday we were up and about relatively early. We packed, put our luggage at reception and cleared our flat. Then we walked over the immense motorway outside the building and the park to the Museum of Anthropology. The park was covered in dew and filled with people doing a rather martial form of yoga around […]
Inbetween day
Saturday is the inbetween day, between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, at least for those of us who are not of the religion. We went for a stroll around La Candeleria and had an inferior breakfast there, and then returned to our own square of Sisal where the church was open. We wandered around it, […]
Back in time
We woke up early – I woke up very early, around 5, as I was unable to sleep – and took a taxi to Chichen Itza. We arrived ten minutes after the opening hour and there were already about 100 people queuing for tickets. Luckily the line moved fast and it was still cool, so […]
Arrival
The Gentleman Friend arrived last night. It was delightful to see him and to share new experiences, but also an end to eating what and how I want, and the timings I prefer. So it goes, one gives, one gets. As soon as he arrived we went for a stroll around Merida where there was […]