Sunset Fisherman Spa And Resort Playa del Carmen

We made our way via ferry from the mainland over to Cozumel (about 30 minutes) found a hotel and hit the town for some window shopping and drinks. We happened to arrive on the day they were having an “Ironman” race on the island (their first). This is were they first swim 2 1/2 miles, bike 112 miles and then do a marathon of 26.2 miles! The winner made it in just over 8 ...

... convenient to eat and drink! Lunch time 2 for 1 cerveza's (beer). You can see from the pictures there is a lot of action all-day and night. See the last picture, which is a short video of some "Street Performer's" outside the restaurant we had dinner at last night (just click on the arrow in the middle of the frame).


The Playa del Carmen local community and government have attempted to retain Playa del Carmen's reputation and ...

... they let us go easily. As we walked out, I heard someone yelling "SHELDON", we turned and saw my father-in-law and brother in-law waved to us. What a surprise! They came to pick us up (they arrived a day earlier).

It took us about 1 hour 15 minute to Puerto Aventuras. The house that we rent is fabulous. It called Casa Mariposa. It is a beach house with 4 bedrooms and a pool in the back of the ...

... on the safe side, we decided to spend the next day or so just wandering around our calm surroundings, and catching up, once more, with the avalanche of photos and emails we needed to deal with. The morning of our flight and we were up and at 'em, a quick breakfast then a cab to the airport where we handed over our ransom, this time a mere $41US each, before heading to the relative calm of the departure lounge. Now thing is, we checked in on-line and somehow ...

... amigo", to which i found the best response was "medaber ivrit" or "sprechen sie deutsh"! basically playa is built for the americans and it is full of them which on the one hand is really annoying, but on the other is a great thing to talk about with the europeans and mexicans none of whom like them either. my evenings were spent fine dining (as always) and going to bars/clubs. i found this cool bar just off 5th caled ...

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Passengers departing the ferry


Playa by night


Playa Hotel


Playa Hotel


My dental visit

Today we arrived in Cancun, waited in immigration line for 3 hours, took a bus ride to Playa de Carmen because the car rental rate was double that of the internet quote, arrived in Playa del Carmen to have no place to stay since the condo we had arranged to stay at did not have a ...

... building painted white with yellow trimming. The jukebox and tv were blaring Spanish music and an old Jerry Lewis movie dubbed in Spanish. Later back at the hostel, Casey and I had some drinks at the beach bar and chatted with Roberto, The resident Mexican Bob Marley bartender. Later I just hung out and played some card games and had a few Cuba libres with a Canadian and 36-year-old retired Air Force Brit who was telling me about climbing to Everest's base camp (no ...

... under a shade and had a couple of pre dinner cervezas. i checked out a hostel for next week and got ready for dinner (couldnt wait!) the old thighs were resembling that alarmingly red chinese chicken you get so smeared myself in hello vera aftersun and trotted out. Dawna pretended that absolutely nothing had happened, chatted away and even poked me on my sunburn! i said nothing and blew smoke in her face. dinner was at a tiny mexican place were meals ...

... my room is big and comfortable if not a little simple. I´ve met some weird and wonderful people from ballet dancers to climbing experts! All cool peeps and the location is fantastic, although we had a rather large thunderstorm last night which woke me up! OK well my class continues in a while so I´d better say hasta luego and when i get rich and invest in a camera, i´ll be surely uploading my piccies for my blog. Cheerio, Amit