the last post

at least until next winter, when i can escape the cold again....

so in the last few days before i left mexico, i was rushing with flight changes, and also, they closed the internet cafe for semana santa - holy week - so i couldn't regale you with the final news.

on my last sunday there, we went to a very posh resort, where a guy we knew was playing with his jazz band.  beautiful spot - overpriced entry fee, but great music, and a lovely pool, fantastic sun.  a woman came around to our table after the music, to say they were going to have a raffle - very spontaneous; she just ripped up bits of paper and told us to put our names on.  i said to my friends:
"take a picture of me just before i win", much to their sarcastic responses about being confident, and then, don't you know, they called my name, and i was the proud winner of one night in the honeymoon suite.
i had borrowed money to pay the exhorbitant entry fee, so was totally penniless, and my friends were going back to san pancho, which meant i had to take a bus back if i wanted to stay, so i borrowed another cinquenta pesos, and got myself settled into the enormous casa (it was not a suite, but a house) that was mine. i'll show you in pictures, although i see the computer put them in a different order:

the wall, with broken glass, around mi casa

the locked door into my territory - Casa Granada

part of the outside terrace inside the wall

one end of the living room, with marble-enclosed alcove for bed

my private jacuzzi

other end of living room and big TV

stairs up to my roof

back in san pancho at the polo club (that's not me)

triny and martin - my landlords and the fish market

the next day at my casa - naked (!) reflection in the ceiling marble

the band playing

me, elisabeth and karoul

the very confident "take it just before i win" me

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