Playa today is not exactly a small fishing village, but neither is it the Las Vegas-style high-rise strip that Cancun has become.
To reach it you walk along a low-rise strip out of 1960s Las Vegas where exuberantly finned Cadillacs are parked up at the roadside, and then past the blackjack and roulette tables of a cavernous casino, filled with all the chandeliered luxury of 50 years ago.
A bank-owned condo in a luxury high-rise, stripped of its fixtures, was purchased for $1.35 million in 2006 and is now in foreclosure at $599,900.
City face West Ham at home at tea-time and De Bruyne, who discussed his move at the launch of the club's "Night Time Rising" third-choice strip, which the team will wear in next week's Capital One Cup tie at Sunderland, said he is a different player now.
The pant legs were light blue with a yellow strip rising from the bottom of the leg to the top.
It was chilly when we started, at 8 a.m., but as the sun rose, we stripped down to T-shirts.
The city — a dust-filled cluster of breeze block homes rising up hillsides stripped of the trees they once had — is a hotbed of activity for factions of several drug cartels in conflict, as well as a particular hotspot for violence against women.
Rising above Los Angeles' Sunset Strip like a leviathan of Gothic glamour, the infamous Chateau Marmont is part of the quintessential Hollywood experience (see longer piece here).
FOOTBALL fans are used to being squeezed by their beloved clubs through rising ticket prices, regular strip changes and stiff charges for food and programmes.
The sun was sinking, and music was rising on East Sixth Street, a strip of bars and clubs with names the kid in you wants to shout out loud: Chuggin' Monkey, Dizzy Rooster, Jackalope.
