Holiday Inn Ex Ciudad Victoria

... there was no loo seat in our bathroom. They had a swimming pool that was so small only one person could use it at a time. I'm sure the pool was only built so the owner could perv at all the female guests in their bikins.

Merida can be summed up in one sight - the toursit bus driving around town with one lonely tourist sitting in the back row. I almost got on it just to satisfy my curiosity about what 'sights' there actually were to take tourists to. I did get quite excited ...

... at last and had a couple of Tacos for about 50p each, delicious. After an afternoon kip I signed up to go on a Mexican Wrestling trip, it had to be done. I was pleased to discover that the Mexican bed snatcher, Fernando, was going, along with a French girl and 2 Spaniards who had just moved into the room. They got a couple of rounds of tequila which I assumed were the free ones included in the tour price but then they said lets go and turns out they were going independently ...

... of swine flu. Once I sneezed and everyone moved out of the way so I got a seat - bingo! I also had fun spotting fashion disasters. It´s that thing in non English speaking countries where the cool thing to wear is anything with a slogan on it in English. These slogans are invariably nonsense. I saw a woman wearing a striped hoody with ´'Kiss me I´m a pirate" written on it. What?? Then this woman was wearing some bright pink tracksuit pants and on the back of the waistband in ...

Hello to all, we finally made it out of the states. The doc said I could go so we left the next day. As you can see we are in ciudad victoria. It is really a nice r v campground. No one is here but us, very quite and nice and warm. It did get a little chilly last night, had to turn ...

We left Palanque on Thursday, April 3rd, and made it to Tampico where we stayed at the Bonita Inn, the campsites were in back of their cabins. (no pictures). Friday, April 4th, we drove to Ciudad Victoria. We got lost and ended up in the mountains, it was a beautiful drive as you can see in the pictures. Friday night in Victoria ...

... evening.. but guess not to much partying since my big lack of sleep. Studying starts 9 tomorrow and it would be a bit bad to be hangover the first day I guess..so tonight eating a relaxing dinner and again watching the huge waves, guess I cant get enough of them the whole ...

... to check it out and to get a couple of small items. We also managed to tune in our satellite for TV, which picked up all the usual stations except the NY networks. But that was to be the last time it worked, because we were going too far south. I really didn't care much because I was quite tired and went to bed early.

... the metro, they play the music they are selling using a portable cd palyer and a bag-speaker kind of system. Quite impressive really! Some are selling other things such as food, pencils and Super Glue!? Not sure what is the deal with Super Glue, but I guess Mexicans must break their plates often or something like that? Hundreds of people doing the same thing, from young, to old, to disabled (blind) people. Really made me realized I was lucky and ...

... and asked the couple young boys that were running the store for directions (using a map). Of course they did not speak a word of English and I managed to remember enough Spanish to figure out how to get to the road we wanted. We kept our passports and papers out as we knew we still had to go through some sort of checkpoint (at about a 20 km mark) where they would verify that we were allowed in Mexico. We also knew we had to pay $20US each so we figured ...

... We think that we are the only ones here. On the positive side, there is great cable TV, with many channels in English, including CNN. We are enjoying walking the streets where we find a lot of Mexican life. People are very friendly. When walking about, we found half a dozen more hotels better than ours. Weather is good. Found an Internet shop that costs only $.75/hour. You can imagine how that appeals to me. Adios all.