((with a bow to JKR – Quidditch through the ages))
So. Just going through my pics and of course the wifi saying hasta la vista once I was ready to upload…. I have clustered my pics and now need to do the writing.
Sort of an ambitious goal given the facts. Which is I am sitting at my hotel’s restaurant (which is more like an outdoors living room) in nice conversation, waiting for dinner (fish with, I quote „LOTS OF GARLIC“) to be served and I convinced everybody else we have to get Coco Loco with FRESH coconut.
This has resulted in Martin (the best host a hotel could ask for) to climb a palm tree. Quite a high one, 3 or 4 meters, I’d guess. And A. from Britain to give it a try – he got up half way, which is much more heroical than anything I’ve tried 🙂 Martin has a photo. I wonder how I can get that.
Anyhow with half the contents of a coconut with orange juice and rum inside my otherwise empty stomach, I will not guarantee for the quality of this entry.
As I haven’t seriously posted on all the pyramids and Azetc and Mayan and other cities I’ve seen so far. So this is a special blog on all the soccer I’ve seen. You know apart from chocolate, chewing gum, …… and so on, the Mexicans also invented soccer. And it’s rightfully called football in Mexico (just as an extra explanation to American onreaders).
Taking a look at where it all started, there’s Monte Alban close to Oaxaca – no loops left over here.
If you’re in need of a football and you wonder if really the old Aztecs were playing it with huge rubber balls (in English this sounds decisively worse than in German), you might want to consider alternatives. Here’s the secret footbal supply of the tourist team in San Cristóbal.
You wonder if really the Spanish did conquer Mexiko or if it wasn’t the British in the end, can’t remember a lot of times in my life having seen SUCH a carefully mowed lawn. I think this one is Palenque…
And this one is Uxmal, nicely renovated with some concrete back in the 60-70ies, as we were explained. On the right side you might be able to tell the loop – this is the newest one I’ve seen…
The way to kick it, by the way, is not like Beckham, but if you want to do it the old Aztec-May way, you kick it with legs, arms and hips, but NOT with hands or feet. I’m not sure about the head. But mind if you take it seriously in the old ways, your heart might be ripped out in the end, which adds a new dimension to the term of bad looser…
Modern times seem more relaxed. I took it up with a small boy who did search for that red beauty – he was on my level. Would heartily throw up both his arms plus the ball, shriek with joy – and successfully throw the ball in the opposite direction of whatever might have been a goal. That was in the ancient city of Yanchilac, or Bonampak? If I don’t see the photos in their chronological order, I do get lost…
And there’s the real one in Yanchilac. Quite old as well. Mowed lawn as well, or the jungle would long ago have taken on the next round…
I think you might well be able to kick a coconut around as well. Might still try that. Half a day left to do so *sniff*
P.S. did do that – you just get a real small one plus the cat at las Palapas del Sol and there you go. Isla Holbox clearly scored over Alemania.