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Ball games and rain gods
... lunch. We were the only customers, again in sharp contrast with the coach loads of tourists we shared our lunch with a few days earlier on the Chichen Itza trip.
We were back in Merida by 3.30pm giving us the opportunity for a few lazy hours before sallying forth to see what the city had to offer on a Saturday night. We had been told that the weekends were very lively. We were a little disappointed. There were certainly lots of people out and ...
Mérida! Our new home!
... celebrating the 470th anniversary of Mérida, there are lots of free cultural events. Such as theatre, dance performances and music performances every single night. We have also got in touch with Save the Children in Yucatan. They have an office here is Mérida and we are volunteering with them this Thursday. They need volunteers to "sell" kisses and hugs in various points of the city from the 1st to the 14th Feb. Each kiss or hug ...
Off the Tourist Trail
... cow dung. About the only people sharing my bland pigment in Merida were some mennonites in a department store, and I presume they are from Belize on a shopping trip. Getting off the tourist trail puts me right into my element, and about five gallons of sweat fueled me around the Centro Historico this afternoon.
The more I dig into Mexico the more I see some faint similarities with Vietnam. The ...
Rain what is that?
... br> Or rather economy. This 30 min flight to Houston ended up being 45 min because the drought in Texas was coming to an End in Houston. Of all the days...really...it prevented plane from landing and he almost went back to Austin. I would have been a little extra ticked.
Get to Houston and have to book it to the end of one terminal, take a tram, go to another side of a different ...
A poor excuse for a man
... died by decapitation."
Right. Moving on...
It was unfortunate that we were not able to climb one of the pyramids in Uxmal, which also happened to be the one most recognisable in the city, owing to its unique design. We did get to scale the 'Great Pyramid' instead though, which had the comforting sign 'Subir es peligrosa' on the steps. This translates as 'Climbing is dangerous'. For once though, I wasn't frightened, and bounded up and down the ...