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  Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Sunday, August 31, 2008

Our final week was spent on Isla Mujeres, a small island a 30 minute boat ride from Cancun. Despite the island being small we didn't really see much of it as most of our time was spent in the hostel, on the beach or walking along the promenade that led to the supermarket. Laura was with us for our first few days before she left our again bed bug-infested dorm to head back to Cancun for her flight.
Most of our time at the hostel was spent in the beach bar which was really good and we rarely went to bed before 5am throughout the week. This started when me and Rachael decided that we'd try and not go to bed and sleep on the beach instead. We made it through to 7am before cracking having seen the sun rise, escaped the attention of a beach thief who was sneaking around in the trees behind us whilst we sat listening to music and having met the world's most agreeable security guard. A typical conversation with the security guard would start with him suggesting something: "you guys should go on the beach", us replying: "no, we don't want to there's some guy sneaking around in the trees" and then him agreeing: "you guys don't want to go to the beach, there are thieves there who will steal your bags, bad idea to go to the beach"!
As well as the security guard, we met lots of other interesting people including Yaniv, the barmen, Robert and a load of toffs from Bristol, who played a practical joke on Rachael by giving her sea water to drink when she was drunk. Rachael was determined to get her revenge however, coming into my dorm at some crazy hour to soak every empty bed with water because as the beds were empty they clearly belonged to the culprits!
Saturday was the last full day of our trip and we planned to spend it on Isla Mujeres before getting the boat back to Cancun early Sunday morning but hurricane Gustav meant that there was heavy rain and the possibility that the boats could have been cancelled so we decided to get back to Cancun. Deciding to spend our last night in comfort we returned to the Radisson where we had the last supper there before our flight the next day.

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