Gail and I just got back from a few days in Mexico City.
Before I go any further let me say we'd never been before and it is a wonderful, vibrant, safe city. Museums, parks, plazas, fountains, statues, concerts, boulevards or paseos with landscaping plants trimmed to within an inch of their lives, and of course great food and drink. Everyone is so polite. Even the few panhandlers we encountered would approach with something like the pitch I got from the last guy, translated from what he was saying to me in Spanish: "Excuse me sir for the bother. But if I may ask you a question, with all due respect, would it be possible for you to give me 10 pesos (like 50 cents US) so that I might get something to eat."
So to get to the pool related part, our last day we were walking back from the Zocalo (main plaza) in the historic part of the city when Gail says to me, "Doesn't 'billares' mean pool?" And she points to the second floor of a building across the street. And I say, "It sure does (well, "billiards" actually)." And we head across the street and do the pool player walk-up to the second floor.
It was a really nice room with two floors called Billares Independencia. One floor was mostly billiard tables, with another mostly pool. I checked out the billiard tables and the cloth was new and stretched tightly. Watching a couple of guys playing some 3C I could see that the balls were nicely polished.
It was very cool.
Lou Figueroa
Before I go any further let me say we'd never been before and it is a wonderful, vibrant, safe city. Museums, parks, plazas, fountains, statues, concerts, boulevards or paseos with landscaping plants trimmed to within an inch of their lives, and of course great food and drink. Everyone is so polite. Even the few panhandlers we encountered would approach with something like the pitch I got from the last guy, translated from what he was saying to me in Spanish: "Excuse me sir for the bother. But if I may ask you a question, with all due respect, would it be possible for you to give me 10 pesos (like 50 cents US) so that I might get something to eat."
So to get to the pool related part, our last day we were walking back from the Zocalo (main plaza) in the historic part of the city when Gail says to me, "Doesn't 'billares' mean pool?" And she points to the second floor of a building across the street. And I say, "It sure does (well, "billiards" actually)." And we head across the street and do the pool player walk-up to the second floor.
It was a really nice room with two floors called Billares Independencia. One floor was mostly billiard tables, with another mostly pool. I checked out the billiard tables and the cloth was new and stretched tightly. Watching a couple of guys playing some 3C I could see that the balls were nicely polished.
It was very cool.
Lou Figueroa
