We were up early to beat the crowds to the Tulum Ruins, we'd heard it gets busier and busier as the day goes on. Our hotel gave us bicycles to use during our stay so we went whizzing past the hundred or so walkers on the road to the entrance. Despite only being 8:30am, the heat was debilitating and only the iguanas seemed to be enjoying it. We made our way round the ruins, stopping in the shade where possible to take a photo or to read up on the history. The sma...

Our stay in Playa Del Carmen was always planned to be a holiday - a nice hotel, diving and not watching the pennies so carefully - and now it had came to an end. The diving had came to an end regardless, since Saturday evening David's ear was sore and likely to have an infection. We had a last and long breakfast at the Spanish Cocina with extra mugs of cinnamon coffee while we finalised the next step of our journey on the internet. David then went round the pha...