Marina Isla Mujeres

We made it to Mexico after 30 hours of travel. We had a great feast of mexican last night while listening to a mariachi band play and the flambe waiters make all sorts of desserts, coffees and lobster. It felt great to sit in the humid heat and be on vacation.

My pina coloada was the length of my arm! Watched Buffalo clobber ...

So today would not be considered a complete bust, but it was certainly close. The goal was to get an UltraMar card, so that I could catch the ferry from here to Cancun cheaply and regularly. Considering I will have friends living there soon, the airport is there, and the best shopping is there, this card is a boon. So, my co-worker and I got what we thought were the necessary documents and waited for the bus ...

... personally to his family in Cancun, where they live right in the hotel zone. (His father is a diplomat.) It was really fun to drop in on them wearing a santa hat and carrying a bag of presents, and they were really excited and invited me in for a beer. I hung out with his younger family for a while. Their back porch is literally 30 feet from the ocean, but they moved there before Cancun was the huge destination it is today.

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... of fertility, reason, medicine, and the moon. The Temple was located at the South point of the island and was also used as the lighthouse. The light from torches was shown through holes in the walls, which could be seen by the navigators at sea. The Mayans also came to the island to harvest salt from the salt lagoons. In March of the year 1517, Francisco Hernandez Cordova discovered the ...

... threw our bags in and headed off. Maiam is a character. Hand signals and various noises are just as much a part of his vocabulary as regular words (which may be Spanish or English at any given moment). If I learn no other spanish from him I'll never forget the word "tranquilo", which seems to be a catch-all word used to indicate that something is good/nice/easy/calm/cool/etc. When we left the airport we headed to ...

... so all so lovely and fun! They hostel would have to be one of the funnest and best located hostels you could ever wish for- l just wish they had air con and not the horrible rotating fan which hardly works and makes me resort to wetting my sarong and draping it over me every night in order to get to sleep! Ben (the Swiss guy) thinks l look hilarious and calls me his sleeping beauty! I know that l definitely would love to return to this island in the future, and l had a ...

... my new husband would sleep in every morning (and nap every afternoon i might add!) We took 2 trips, the first was to xcaret an adventure park with animals and a huge night show with traditional mexican ...

So here we are!! Only two weeks left of our epic journey, entering unknown territories, fighting aliens,.... ok, getting carried away there, but its hard to believe that its almost over!!! For all our London based readers we have a request - we are currently homeless and jobless (in vanessa's case), and we would love a bed, floor, cardboard box to crash in temporarily whilst we seek out a house. In return we can offer wonderful anecdotes and amusing stories about our ...

... this trip, Samson and I are in shared dorms because we just could not afford a private room. We spend the first day doing a little bit of much needed retail therapy. We visited Plaza Las Americas which is a pretty flash shopping mall that had everything we could ever dream of. It even had a Zara. Unfortunetly my budget didnt stretch that far, however I was lucky enought to find that Zingara Çluxury swimwear ...

Cancun!
Una hermosa ciudad, arruinada por el afan de lucro y el turismo desmedido, los hoteles en la playa como una selva de concreto. En este maravilloso lugar entre por primera vez a Mejico, pero esta tan enfocado al turismo que se pierden las tradiciones y costumbres locales. Disfrutamos en familia de las maravillsosas playas, de la comida, de la bebida no pude porque era chico todavia y ni me interesaba. Pero ...