I was underwater for a few days. I had a big deadline last night and was plugging away at it (after having taken Monday off to visit the pyramid) but, more to the point, it was that sort time so I was very weak and occasionally wracked with pain. Plus two days of headachey-ness – […]
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 […]
Walls closing in
In the morning, after breakfast, we finally went to the great pyramid of Cholula, reputed to be the largest in the world. Indeed, most of it just looks like a massy hill, but there have been excavations on one side revealing a crazy mix of walls and rooms from different eras. Very hard to understand; […]
Cholula in parts
With work and so on we haven’t really had an opportunity to explore Cholula fully, however I can report that it is a town in parts. We are in San Andre Cholula, the less touristed, more residential bit compared to San Pedro Cholula. Our neighbourhood within San Andre Cholula is quiet and residential (aside from […]
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 […]
The coolest city in the western hemisphere
We arrived in Mexico City last night and it feels like the Bangkok of the Americas. Huge, cultured, vibrant, ugly, beautiful, all together. We arrived after a fairly long journey: a two hour bus ride to Merida (before which I had a morning dash to the DHL office to send off a gift that was […]
Hot silent days
A couple of quiet days as we are both busy at work now and life in Valladolid has settled into a routine. I wake early in the mornings and make myself a cup of tea and scrape together a bit of early breakfast. We work steadily through the morning. There is a hammock slung at […]
Ek Balam
This morning we took a collectivo to El Balam, a Mayan site about 20 minutes out of Valladolid. It was quite the contrast to Chichen Itza. Much smaller and less monumental, and clearly not intended for mass tourism, so it hadn’t been cleared of jungle and there were no paving stones. Blessedly, there were also […]
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, […]