We went up to the top of the pyramid to the yellow Spanish church. There was a good view of Cholula all around, and even the volcano’s outline appeared through the haze, startlingly tall for something that is invisible for most of the day. An open space on the San Pedro side was divided in two: on one side was a makeshift parking area with a large number of heavy motorcycles, and on the other was a cleared fenced space in which motorcyclists were doing tricks, like riding two bikes simultaneously and driving the two around men lying prone on the ground, or several people climbing up to make a pyramid. I have seen such tricks before in Pakistan, when we went to the Horse and Cattle Show one year, though there it was on the small Pakistani motorcycles which still seem to me actual motorcycles, not the heavy bikes that I think most people abroad think of. In any case, viewed from a distance and above it looked silly and nonconsequential.
Some of the bikers had climbed up to the church but were still in biking attire, so we had a rather delightful view of hell’s angel types in leather kneeling piously at the altar. The more interesting altar was in the small chapel, a blue themed Virgin with a crescent moon at her feet. Very interesting.
On returning we watched a third episode of Big Little Lies. After Game of Thrones it is a great relief to watch something which is well written and had good characters with emotional depth. The scene at a marriage counsellor, in particular, was very good and even surprised me as instead of the usual trope of a couple going to counselling and not saying anything, there was a gradual revealing of what they actually wanted to talk about, led, even, by the less sympathetic of the two. Reese Witherspoon in particular plays a very good character, believable and irritating and sympathetic.