Hotel Casa Mexilio con Taberna

17/07/2022

The home's original BALCONIES still supply the ROMANCE and FANTASY. The balcony and the open window remain common motifs in literature and art, because it is there where all the amorous entreaties occurred: where grand gestures were made and where people waited silently for a spared glance, where serenades were sung and hands asked for in marriage, where everything could change.
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Los balcones originales de la casa aún aportan el romanticismo y la fantasía de otros tiempos. El balcón y la ventana abierta siguen siendo motivos comunes en la literatura y el arte, porque es allí donde ocurrían todas las súplicas amorosas: donde se hacían grandes gestos y donde la gente esperaba en silencio una mirada reservada, donde se cantaban serenatas y se pedían manos en matrimonio. , donde todo podría cambiar.

10/07/2022

They took me to THE PRADO MUSEUM when I was twenty-six. Goya was the star and the visit was swift and the dialect was not understandable. But, I saw Goya !
Twenty years later I returned to Goya, but by an elliptical route, through the music of Granados. I practiced the tunes, but did not understand, foolishly thinking that a “mago” was a magician.
Twenty years later I finally mastered TWO of his ‘Goyescas’. I performed THEM, but still didn’t understand.

It’s taken me sixty years to become acquainted with the man with the large moustache. And it is a ‘lament’ as one of his pieces infers. He died, drownded while attempting to save his wife who was floundering in the waters of the English Channel, after their ship was hit by a German submarine.
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RECITAL DE PIANO PROGRAMADO, 16 DE AGOSTO - ¿POR QUÉ HAGO ESTO?
Me llevaron al MUSEO DEL PRADO cuando tenía veintiséis años. Goya fue la estrella y la visita fue rápida y el dialecto no era comprensible. ¡Pero vi a Goya!
Veinte años después volví a Goya, pero por un recorrido elíptico, a través de la música de Granados. Practiqué las tonadas, pero no entendí, pensando tontamente que un “mago” era un mago.
Veinte años después finalmente dominé DOS de sus 'Goyescas'. Los interpreté, pero todavía no entendía.

Me ha llevado sesenta años conocer al hombre del gran bigote. Y es un ‘lamento’ como infiere una de sus piezas. Murió ahogado mientras intentaba salvar a su esposa que se tambaleaba en las aguas del English Channel, después de que su barco fuera golpeado por un submarino alemán.

08/07/2022

FIRST ATTEMPT at building with cement - my Dad was a carpenter and most of the houses in my village were made of wood. This polished cement floor from 1982 is still beautiful. The room on top of a very high house here in the Barrio of Santiago, was a FOLLY. It was created by an albañil from Caucel, nicknamed "el torero" and the penthouse folly was copied and copied, at a time when Meridanos pulled chairs onto the sidewalk, instead of using their rooftops.

06/07/2022

A garden folly - rooftop catwalk

02/07/2022

A KITCHEN WINDOW - up high

04/04/2022

$400

Intermediarios pagan entre 350 y 400 la caja, pero incrementan el costo al introducir el producto a supermercados.

04/04/2022

OK - I'm ready to leave the personal page and do some business. "Events" are on my plate, now. We've had one piano recital/lecture in March. The performance butterflies are less active. The new event is Sat. 23rd of April. And it's my take on TANGO for listening, not dancing. Shooo butterflies !

16/03/2022

A long time ago, when Yucatan still had a rail road and the government hadn’t pulled up the rails and cross ties, and torn down the train stations - I took the train to the Hacienda Le Pan. I was really going to Hda. Xcanchakan, Jorge’s birthplace, but decided to get off at the nearby stop where the train passed through the ruins of the faded Le Pan. And struggling to find the main road, I stumbled onto a burning rubbish pile and rescued this little orchid.
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Hace mucho tiempo, cuando Yucatán todavía tenía una vía férrea y el gobierno no había levantado los rieles y las traviesas, y derribado las estaciones de tren, tomé el tren a la Hacienda Le Pan. Realmente iba a Hda. Xcanchakan, el lugar de nacimiento de Jorge, pero decidió bajarse en la parada cercana donde el tren pasaba por las ruinas del descolorido Le Pan. Y luchando por encontrar la carretera principal, tropecé con un montón de basura en llamas y rescaté esta pequeña orquídea.

14/03/2022

A Wall Stencil copied by MIGUEL DUARTE in the 80s from Tercera Orden. A first friend who succumbed during our first pandemic to a virus that still haunts us tonight, 42 years later. We enjoy his ART and speak his NAME.

25/01/2022

Casa Mexilio was once a popular destination for models and their photographers. Covid changed that, but here is a glimpse of the past. Isn't she lovely ?

03/01/2022

GLOOMY
The market was slow - I was early - our gloomy Monday is beautiful - with thoughts of Jane Austen or youthful adventures in Holland. The boys from Gouda helped me find my train !