We had to return to the Caribbean coast to meet Linda and James..it´s a hard life. Playa is a crazy place, the opposite of Tulum but fun i guess if you want to party hard and spend a lot of money. who cares when the sea´s blue and the cocktails are plentiful anyway? We found a hidey hole with a kitchen, had a few bonza barbies mate, became amazed at Wal Mart, snorkeled more and more, ate more and more, returned to Tulum for old times sake and visited...

Off we trot to Merida, capital of the Yucatan. A pleasant, friendly and pretty city. Whilst there we visited our favourite site of all sites ever, Uxmal. The incredible amount of decoration remaining on the building made it very special, and the beauty of the buildings themselves, pyramids with curved sides, quadrangles, things i don´t know the correct architectural term for.. Lots of iguanas to chase too. Merida was also the site of my first bout of prope...

Ahhhh..paradise found. After a 15hr bus journey from San C we were terribly upset to find a deserted beach with whiter than white sand, clear turquoise sea and picture prefect palm trees waiting for us. We shacked up in a beach side cabin and went back to basics with no hot water, no electricty, no mod cons whatsoever just bare feet, candles and the sea. It was bliss, the caribbean ocean was our garden and the sun shone (almost) everyday, though when it didn&acut...

we are now in Palenque in the middle of the jungle.. staying in a jungle hut at El Panchan just near the entrance to the national park - lovely place with an amazing restaurant that serves wood fire oven pizza and fresh pasta! seriously gorged ourselves....There´s live music every night at the restaurant, people playing guitar, mexican folksongs/ south american songs..lovely..and fire dancers and drumming after. The only problems with this place i...

 the copper canyon, seriously beautiful place. amazing..so darn big! bigger than the grand canyon. stayed for a few days at the top in a dusty wild west town called cCreel full of cowboys and indians, went hiking in the pine forests and swam in hot thermal springs, watched eagles and clouds and got chilly at night. felt sorry for a poor stray lady dog on heat who was getting shagged by literally every dog in town. we kept trying to protect her but the&n...