Villa Tulum

... off our sweet little Belizian island, and we waited in the already warm sun on the pier. The water was so clear it was hard to tell just hot deep it was, and I toyed with the idea of jumping in to see but chickened out…damn ‘Jaws’ it has a lot to answer for with my neuroses.

On the boat we passed other islands and one made me almost squeal and did definitely make me annoy Shane who wanted to just be quiet as it was about 7.30am and he doesn’t do ...

... ja das Ende der Reise von Conny. Da war relaxen angesagt...;)Wir besichtigten noch die Maya-Ruinen von Tulum, die noch zwei Tage zuvor geschlossen waren, auf Grund der Schweinegrippe. Hatten die Ruinen auch praktisch fuer uns, unddie sind ja echt einfach traumhaft gelegen. Direkt am wunderschoenen Meer. Wow! Unseren Abschied feierten Conny und ich mit ein bisschen Rum in Tulum, das fanden wir gar nicht dumm, aber ...

Made it Tulum after a ropey enough New Years Day bus ride. Downtown Tulum is a little bland, but the nearby beaches are unspoilt and, aswell as been on warm turquiose seas, are right beside the spectacular Tulum ruins, which was a thriving city when the Spanish arrived. Took a trip back up the coast to ...

Tulum was ok but I think we were expecting too much, beautiful beaches yes and the water unbelieveably blue and warm but running out of money and time I think might have coloured our experience a little. We got attacked by mosquitos when we spent a night ...

... the people we spoke to didn't enjoy the place due to the large number of vendors flogging their wares but we had a ball as we were in the market for a few souvenirs and love to barter, well Mom and the boys do anyway. We hit the highway just before lunch with one of our highlights being the Pollo (chicken) place we found the evening before. 140 pesos ($14) for 2 whole butterflied chickens BBQ'd and served with platters of rice and coleslaw and all the tortillas and hot salsa ...

... mutta ruoka oli hyvää ja sitä piti tilata pojille vielä lisääkin! Poikien kanssa on ollut ihana kokea erilaisia asioita, mutta kyllä ne osaavat riidelläkin. Ovat edelleen yhtä kateellisia toisilleen kuin ennenkin ja kinaavat jatkuvasti jostakin. Mexicolaiset ihastelevat perhettämme ja taputtavat hymyillen ja ymmärtäne selkääni; tres ninos!!! Terveisiä kaikille! Minna ja pojat PS: Kuvia edelleen tarjolla osoitteessa www.flickr.com/photos/kotiaho/collectio ns

Chapter I: If you're impressed and you know it... My clap's 1000 clones zigzag their way across the Grand Ball Court towards the Temple of Venus at the speed of sound. The call of birds surrounds me, consumes me: the echoes, the echoes of echoes, imprinting themselves on my mind and resonates in my ear long after the birdsong has finally stopped - or did it ever stop? Such are the acoustics of Chitchen Itza's Ball Court, I lower the volume of my thoughts so as to keep ...

... fruit plate, which was actually a larger portion of food than I received. After lunch we head back down to the beach for some more reading. I was finishing a copy of "Where the Sky is Born" which was sent to me by Allison (aj8830) right before we left. This was given to her by Kai (elViejo) at the Austin Loco Gringo par-tay back in April. It's an awesome book about a couple (the author and her husband) who travel to and fall in ...

We're in Valladolid right now, wasting time till we can get back to Tulum. It's rainy and ugh and the storm last night kept turning the power on and off and every time it would come back on, the gatebell would ring, so we slept badly again. And my palm fronds were leaking (I have the loft). I got to scamper around putting pots under the leaks, without breaking my neck on the stairs as I ran up and down finding them in the dark, which is harder than ...