| Notes |
| ● |
As usual, the cameraman was Guy Littlemore and the sound recordist
was Simon Burles, but the helicopter was flown by local pilot ‘Capitane’ Jerry
(instead of Keith Thompson). |
| 1 |
The helicopter heads west (Vivienne Westwood) to the University
of Chapingo near Texcoco football pitch (hardly the Aztec Stadium) near Texcoco
where a colourful paper pinata (anagram of ‘taipan’) hangs from a rope above
a group of children. Suzi hits it with a stick and releases the sweets (and
the clue) inside. |
| 2 |
Suzi lands beside Laguna Texhuilo and finds a group of musicians
performing on a gondola (mariachis’ trajinera). She’s taken to a second gondola,
with a cooking-pot of maize aboard, in the middle of the lake. The gondolier
has the clue. |
| 3 |
El Arroyo (Spanish for ‘stream’) is in Tlalpan (thallium-aluminium
pan). The subject of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Death In The Afternoon’ was bull-fighting.
As Suzi enters the bullring, a calf is being ‘fought’ by a matador (Armillita
was a famous bull-fighter) who has the clue-tube. “It was in his pocket,” Suzi
says. “And you thought he was just pleased to see you,” quips Dermot. |
| 4 |
The helicopter lands at a ranch near the ruined Aztec pyramids
of Teotihuacan, a world heritage site (City of God’s heritage), and Suzi and
the crew get a lift from Sergio in his 4x4 to where five dancers (Los Voladores)
are performing spectacular acrobatics atop a huge pole. As four of them spin
down from the top, one of them drops the clue. |
| 5 |
‘The Feathered Serpent’ refers to an Aztec god Quetzacoatl
depicted on the side of one of the pyramids. If she hadn’t run out of time,
Suzi would have had to bow her head (bow your head) under the serpent to see
the clue. |
