Hotel Le Soleil Levant Pointe-à-Pitre

... no such thing as perfect), ups, downs and sweeping bends.
The countryside is back to mainly trees and bushes with the odd small plot of cultivation, plenty of towns and speed bumps and several off road diversions for road works - and it really is off road, no room for low cars and spoilers here!
As on other mornings in the roadside cafes and I suppose houses, I watched mainly but not entirely the senoras making their ...

... Zipolitega huvasti j2tta viis Jade ja Jorge kiire otsus ka oma teekonda Guatemala poole j2tkata...kellel samuti illegaalseks muutumise oht v6i kellel lihtsalt maastiku muutust vaja... j2rgmised kahe p2eva jagu aega mooduvad maanteid kulutades ja poidlakuuti puudes, omades omajagu p2ikesekuumust, kuivusest kipitavat kurku ja kripeldavat n2lga...tunde oodates ning tunde r2ndavas "camionetas" veetes, samm j2llegi kuhugi l2hemale... esimene 66 v66rsil viis meid rahulikult ...

... Spiels dem Sonnengott geopf**t. In d** Anlage findet sich auss**dem auch ein astronomisches Obs**vatorium, das die Zapoteken für die B**echnung ihres 260-Tage umfassenden Kalend**system benützten. Am Nachmittag machten wir uns dann auf den Weg durch die Si**ra Madre del Sur zum 600km entf**nten San Cristobal de Las Casas. Dabei üb**nachteten wir jedoch auf halb** Strecke in Zanatepec, mitten im Urwald.

... not dissapppointed.....Chichen Itza known for it's huge central plaza and stepped pyramid was awesome.......they seemed to have ball games long before we Brits invented football !! but the winning captain got the honour of being sacrificed to the gods not paid fortunes for falling over !! so a pretty long game I guess. We stayed in Merida the capital of Yucatan in a "rustic" style hotel....which we later found out was going to be the norm for ...

... of buisnesses, since traffic slows merchants sell anything from fruit to cold drinks. Some will stand in the middle of the lanes to reach both drivers of the traffic. It also seems the place to catch a ride, or just watch traffic as the continuing circus of vehicles and unaware drivers parade by. You become accustomed to watching out for the reductors in a way I have never have looked for anything else on the ...

On to Puerto Arista, a relative metropolis, plenty of shops, some of them even open! Out of high season seaside towns tend to only fully open at weekends when the city dwelling Mexican hordes descend. Found a nice little place near a smelly lagoon and not far from the beach, but sadly, as often happens in Mexico, the workers started banging around at 6am - because it´s really hot later, they start work early but with no concern for their sleeping clients.

Just a stop over in this small town, where a Saturday night is spent drinking until falling asleep in the streets. It was quite funny arriving there so late, everyone just coming to us so drunk and talking to us and then after one hour seeing them sleeping outside. This time has not much apart from good hot dogs, we went to eat them at a stand where they were showing a Mexican boxing game, and i had to stasy the whole 11 rounds and cheer up with the locals...

... the first night we camped here, we woke to find a fair sized sow having a good old chow on Vern's charitable offerings before wandering off down the street. We camped 2 nights and had our evening meals, a BBQ and a giant prawn dinner right on the footpath. It was bloody hot the whole time we were there, up to 39`c, and when we pulled out Tuesday morning for Puerto Angel it was nice to have the AC going again. Hasta Luega Amigos, The McGregors-6

... was perfect, and the family couldn´t have been more generous or laidback. Sometimes I am completely bewildered at how lucky I am, at how easy my life is, at the amount of abundance, love and joy I always seems to encounter...there are members of my own family who have lives with so much more pain, trials and tribulations, not to mention the millions of people in this world who are barely surviving, lacking water, food, shelter, and ...

Today we met a long lost family cousin from my husbands side. Her father was a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris and had three children. Unfortunately the couple split and the mother moved back to her home place in Guadeloupe with her three children. Kai, the name of a Beninoise who is the third daughter has been living in Guadeloupe since she was three years old and only recently has had contact with her father who is my husband's uncle ...