Blue Parrot 5th Avenue Playa del Carmen

... teeth, lots of gold, bright pink nail varnish, has a crinkly 60 year old boyfriend in tow (boyfriend is her word not mine) and she has lots of volume with arms wailing madly at each mention of skulls or blood, (which is quite often). I mention to the daughter that I find her mum hilarious, she mentions I would not find it hilarious if it that was my mother, I agree with her. Awkward pause. <br>This rain and wind is just crazy ...

... Papier...) und nette Bewohner. Playa del Carmen ist <br>sowas wie der Ballermann auf Malle, jedoch pompoeser, und heisser! <br>5Ave , die Partystrasse, eine Bar nach der anderen, Musik hier, <br>Trompeten dort, dicke Amis und wirklich attraktive (ich vermute) <br>Europäer!<br>Nach nem kleinen Rundgang bin ich trotzdem schon um 23:30 Ortszeit ins <br>Bett gefallen und hätte super schlafen koennen, wenn nicht gegen 4uhr <br>Zeuss seine Blitze gen ...

... br>The nightlife on Cozumel is limited, many of the visitors are just there for a day but we have one touristy night out drinking too many oversized margaritas at Jimmy Bufffet&#8217;s Margaritaville and then a yard of something frozen at Senor Frogs. Cozumel is not somewhere we could spend a long time but if you hire a car (or a dune buggy!) the beaches on the other side of the island away from the main town are lovely, sandy and very quiet.

... MBD, we decide to try the Cenotes. This time we are taken by Etienne, a tech cave diver, who briefs us on the hours drive. He explains the different rules to cave diving than sea diving, adjusts our weight for the fresh water and then we are off. Like with the lake there is little in the way of fish but that&#8217;s not what we came for. It&#8217;s the amazing rock formations, the glistening caverns and the natural ...

"They're tryin' to drink all the punches<br>They all may lose their lunches<br>Tryin' to cram lost years into five or six days<br>Seems that blind ambition erased their intuition<br>Plowin' straight ahead come what may.                        J Buffett   "Cowboy in the Jungle"<br><br>Five days in and no blog.  What can I say ...

... have a gazillion tourist stores and franchises such as Mcdonalds, Burger King, Subways etc. And every night is Saturday and also ladiesnight. Who thought up of free drinks for girls from 2300 -0200 must not want to make a lot of money but I am not complaining. I was supposed to stay only two nights but the girls in my hostel convinced me to stay two more and seeing as I am not ...

... and met a load of people from Mexico, Argentina, Sweden, Switzerland and England. We went out to a bar and I spent most of the night talking to Agostina, an Argentinian graphic designer. I must confess that at times I was just nodding and smiling and hoping for the best, but when I concentrated I felt I could hold a decent converstion in Spanish with her. So to today, which I have spent being followed around by one of the guys from last night, despite my trying to shake him ...

... list so we pulled in and enjoyed a much needed reprieve and regrouping. The shrimp tacos here were quite good and the beer was nice and cold. We were ready for our afternoon. Mark had found the Chemuyil subdivision on a website a fews weeks prior to our leaving town. He was excited at the prospect of being able to buy a vacation/retirement casa so close ...

stayed a short night here, dont stay in the urban hostel here it's ****! Had a grand evening, bought T-bone steak malbec wine and had a nice big cigar, life is tough! Also met more crazy Mexicans and played drinking games on the roof till the wee hours, in the name of improving my spainish of course!

... or so of kayaking through some mangroves - very peaceful and serene. I had another embarrassing event trying to get into the kayak (it took 3 guys to keep me from rolling over into the water). At the conclusion of our kayak adventure we had to paddle back to Isle Pasion. This was about a half-mile through open ocean and against the current. I thought my arm was going to fall off. Matter of fact it went numb ...