A couple of months ago I started getting emails from a lady in Palm Beach USA who was desparate for two things and despite trying, I have been unable to help - BUT I AM SURE YOU CLEVER LOCALS OR THOSE ON HOLIDAY FROM THE USA CAN HELP!!
1. Mimi used to live on the island for a few years around 1970 and would love a photo of her old house if still there:-
" I do not have an address for the old palace apartment at the top of the hill - you go through a couple of huge wooden doors - and up some stone steps and it must have been part of the harem - there was a bath there but only a cold water tap and is opposite Ivan Spence"s Gallery at the top of the hill. I was as fit as a fiddle at the end of the season! I couldn't make that hill today I'm afraid - It was so lively staying in the Alta Delta cos everyone who was anyone would stroll around at night - also I used to play chess with Elmir de Hory - the guy that Orson made a film about called "F for Fake" - written by Clifford Irving who fell in love with his subject and got up to some shenannikins himself by faking a biography of Howard Hughes.
2. The sellers of the baskets are camped out in the street - not in a shop!!!! It is completely without decoration with two hemp shoulder handles made completely of straw raffia - when you see the natives carrying something - it will probably be in such a basket.
I'll just live in hopes - the market is in the old town at the base of the hill before you turn left for San Miguel - but my memory may be off. Bon Viaje - Mimi.
If you do manage to get a basket for me - I shall pay postage and a propina of $25 above costs. My original basket was something like $17. You could use it on the journey home and then have it packaged and mailed by one of those professional packing shops.
Is Don Pollo still serving half a chicken and fries on the queue in the street - he must be rolling in dough by now or dead - he made a slave of his little daughter who always served me - but she has to be 50 by now!!!!!! But he really was called DON POLLO - cos that's all he served!!!!! half a chicken for 60 Pesetas!!!
If anyone can help, I have Mimi's address, email address and phone number in the USA.
Come on McRackin, this should be easy for a man of your talents
1. Mimi used to live on the island for a few years around 1970 and would love a photo of her old house if still there:-
" I do not have an address for the old palace apartment at the top of the hill - you go through a couple of huge wooden doors - and up some stone steps and it must have been part of the harem - there was a bath there but only a cold water tap and is opposite Ivan Spence"s Gallery at the top of the hill. I was as fit as a fiddle at the end of the season! I couldn't make that hill today I'm afraid - It was so lively staying in the Alta Delta cos everyone who was anyone would stroll around at night - also I used to play chess with Elmir de Hory - the guy that Orson made a film about called "F for Fake" - written by Clifford Irving who fell in love with his subject and got up to some shenannikins himself by faking a biography of Howard Hughes.
2. The sellers of the baskets are camped out in the street - not in a shop!!!! It is completely without decoration with two hemp shoulder handles made completely of straw raffia - when you see the natives carrying something - it will probably be in such a basket.
I'll just live in hopes - the market is in the old town at the base of the hill before you turn left for San Miguel - but my memory may be off. Bon Viaje - Mimi.
If you do manage to get a basket for me - I shall pay postage and a propina of $25 above costs. My original basket was something like $17. You could use it on the journey home and then have it packaged and mailed by one of those professional packing shops.
Is Don Pollo still serving half a chicken and fries on the queue in the street - he must be rolling in dough by now or dead - he made a slave of his little daughter who always served me - but she has to be 50 by now!!!!!! But he really was called DON POLLO - cos that's all he served!!!!! half a chicken for 60 Pesetas!!!
If anyone can help, I have Mimi's address, email address and phone number in the USA.
Come on McRackin, this should be easy for a man of your talents
