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From good to bad to alright to worse
... time, enjoying some **** coffee with an huge hangover. The hugely fat American owner Linda keeps calling me baby and encouraging me to make friends. I had been told by a new friend Jess that almost everyone gets seasick but with some anti-nausea pills it was fine. I get seasick occasionally, I have no pills. We head out, the boat has 12 customers, all American and a big group of them were youngish and friendly. I stare at the horizon trying to avoid aggravating my fragile ...
Leaving and a mini disaster on our return home
... the pipe.
As we opened the drawers they too were wet from the condensation needless to say most of the cupboard doors have now blown and will need to be replaced. So now we will have to wait for an Insurance assessor to come, we should get a call from them in the morning.
It could have been so much worse especially if it had happened upstairs. We were so lucky Pete and Kim spotted it when they did as although the kitchen, hallway ...
Back to Cancun
... the beach.
The water was just as good as we remembered it. Not quite as blue, but I think that was from all the rain yesterday. Still... Pretty great to swim in though. There were tents and music bars along the beach – even double beds with shade available. You name it, they were supplying it.
After our skins started to feel a little crisp (and unfortunately we ran out of sunblock) we called it a day and went back to lie in the hammocks, in the ...
"Hey Amigo, let me rip you off for less"
... a couple from Whistler which I recognized as the chick from Fat Tonys and her boyfriend, we discussed their trip and how they had met Tam, my old housemate in Nicaragua a few weeks earlier, small world I thought, like so many times before.
05/06/11
Caught a cab ride to Gran Cenote, which is the entrance to a network of underground caves filled with water. I was pretty happy with myself for talking to the driver in only ...
All Inclusive? No, thanks!
... said to use each and every occasion to earn some easy cash on the foreign tourists. Just how wrong those were, we discovered when we arrived in Yucatan later on. I personally believe that it's a pity that such stories are told and spread around by the people who never tried to go out of their comfort zone and skip all inclusive for some real adventure and a bit of a thrill. So, according to the New Yorkers, Mexico was nothing but drugs, crime and corruption and it was ...