The other Yucatan

This is our last day in the Yucatan so rather than go to the beach I've spent a very happy half hour trying to find a picture of a pub in North East London I've always been too intimidated to go into. Here you go:Tramping up and down Stoke Newington High Street on Google streetwalker is brilliant: a virtual reality collaboration between Richard Scarry and Ken Loach chockful of afternoon drinkers, white baseball caps, prams and roaming schoolkids. The only suprise was the absence of a middle aged man in a Celtic top gently swaying outside the pub. I naively assumed they kept a full squad of them on retainer.

Sadly the photo doesn't show the Yucatan's convention-shattering use of outside pub tables as indoor furniture, which gives the place a particularly rough and ready/actually just rough vibe.

Two doors down is the Best Turkish Kebab shop. This is not just a clever name: it's the home of the best doner kebab in Stoke Newington and therefore feasibly the best doner kebab in the world. They make their own doner roll on the premises: when it first goes on it weighs 1/4 of a ton.
A quarter ton of slowly rotating meat is an arresting sight so I have great sympathy with this man, caught for eternity in the hypnotic tractor beam of the 'bab. So there you have it: there's a pub in London called the Yucatan and its near a good kebab shop. This is a picture of a kebab from the Mexican Yucatan (note use of Pineapple):

And this is a video I found on youtube while I was writing this post. I think it's brilliant.