From the historic town, tourists go north through the Sierra La Culata national park to catch a speedboat to the lake-top fishing communities at the heart of nature's own plasma ball.
As fast as a speedboat ferrying A-listers down the Grand Canal, the first pictures of Amal Alamuddin's wedding dress have arrived – and as a statement of the couple's position within the Hollywood hierarchy, this is a gown that speaks a thousand words.
A newspaper is like a speedboat.
Mrs Tebbutt was whisked across the border on a speedboat.
The chance to make one came from the gang of thieves, wearing gas masks and hurling smoke bombs, that had tried the previous day to snatch £350m of diamonds from the Dome's "money zone", and to make their escape by speedboat up the Thames.
These range from the mass-produced Seraj-1 missile and the Zolfaqar speedboat, which can travel at 80mph (130kph) and carries the Nasr anti-ship cruise missile, to a growing fleet of Ghadir midget submarines, the Karrar armed drone and mobile shore-based missile batteries.
But also alarming was the degree of organisation involved in the hijack, and the strong whiff of collusion, at least on Hainan island, the Chinese province where the ship ended up.The Petro Ranger was seized on April 16th 1998 when a dozen heavily armed men in balaclavas boarded the ship from a speedboat.
"And they're an aircraft carrier".Mr Schrager thinks modern guests want rather more from their hotel stay than the efficiencies offered by large chains and it's the 110mph speedboat that can help them get that.
"The Brazilian economy is a ship, not a speedboat," he said last week.
Yet the evidence from the Maldives, where politicians campaign by speedboat, is that it struggles gamely on.
"I'm a 110mph speedboat, I can turn on a dime," he suggests.
