2/01/2016

A good day for corners

El Teatro (the theatre) 57/60
El Colegio (the college) 63/58
El Pavo* (the turkey) 67/54
El Imposible y Cebencio (street of the impossible and it was overcome - the locals used to be annoyed having to deal with a hill that used to be on this spot, until it was demolished) 67/50
El Colon (Christopher Columbus, I think) 69/44
El Crucero del Chimay (the Chimay crossing, maybe) [Edit: It has just occurred to me that this might be a joke. A "crucero" is a cruise and Chimay is inland Yucatan. Jokers.] 69/46
El Iguano (the iguana) 69/50
La Berenjena (the eggplant) 69/56
La Perdiz (the partridge, no pear trees anywhere to be seen) 59/56
La Sirena (the siren) 57/56
El Huech (the armadillo) 55/56
La Palma (the full-sized palm tree, not to be confused with the little palm tree)55/58
Sta Lucia (Santa Lucia) 55/60
La Teja (the shingle - named after the building on one of the corners, which was the first house in Merida to have a clay shingle roof) 49/60
El Choch (Chocolate, maybe) 49/58
La Gran Lucha (the big fight) 49/52
El Chevere (the impressive guy, maybe) 49/54
El Chivito (the baby goat) 49/56


* If you learned to speak Spanish in Mexico, or in DF anyway, you might know another word for turkey. Don't use it. It has a very different,  very vulgar meaning in Latin America generally.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a more memorable way to remember you intersections than by merely numbers! Thanks
for all the pictures. What is the picture for Le Imposible? Have you shot any dogs today?
xoxoxo

Anonymous said...

Never mind. The words ARE clues.
Sigh....
xoxo

Barbero Garbey Garbey said...

I still LOVE this post. And the comments are pretty good too:)