Today we decided to go to Akumal, as it is the best place to spot turtles near to Playa del Carmen. We got the collectivo mini bus from just down the road from our hotel, which cost less than £2 to go the 20 miles to the bay. We had found limited online instructions which only told us to get off the collectivo 'by the white road bridge', of which there turned out to be many. But by guessing what the road signs said, and talking to/at the driver, we managed to ge...

Getting off the coach at Playa del Carmen, we took the directions to the hotel that we had been able to find on Matt´s phone the night before. After going down a few dodgy looking backstreets, we arrived at the Playa del Carmen hotel by H&A. It was a really nice but small hotel with a swimming pool in an open-roofed courtyard, but we didn´t get a chance to go in, as we had too many other exciting things to do! On arrival though, we had bigger fish to fry, a...

Well I haven't updated the blog yet, as the tablet computer I bought to do it has stopped working, and its a bit far to post it back to Amazon from here. So I'm trying to do this first update from Matt's phone while he is off fishing. We arrived at Cancun Airport after the longest flight I have ever been on (enough to watch two films and loads of tv episodes!) When we got to the airport we tried to work out where to get a taxi from and ended up getting one from ...

Ok, so the time we've been waiting for for almost a year is nearly here... On Monday we're going down to London to start our adventure in style... AKA staying in Gatwick Central Travelodge, which will probably set a high standard of accommodation for our time in Mexico and Central America. I've set up this blog so that people can see whereabouts we are at roughly the same time as we are actually there, internet depending. This is so my family (I'm looking at yo...