On Sundays, Mérida's Plaza Grande is turned over for a street market with entertainment. It was an easy walk to get there, across one block and turn right onto Calle 60 then keep walking. What immediately caught our attention in Calle 60 was that it had been closed off to cars. Only bicycles were given freedom to ride up and down the road with the luxury of traffic wardens holding cars back at the intersections. It was only after forgetting about the vast va...

Our trip was continuing to Mérida today and, once again, it was a very uneventful bus ride through the flat jungle of Yucatan. Mérida is described as being a large town of colonial splendeour but when we entered the city, the opinion differed. It was certainly a large town, it took us ages to wind through narrow streets to the bus station but we didn't see any of the colonial splendour, it looked just the same as any other town we had been in. When th...