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We headed South to the fishing town of Playa del Carmen to have a couple more days in the sun. We will both leave on the 7am Tuesday flight to Houston, but then I will finally lose Bevan as I change for a flight to Austin (cheaper than just terminating at Houston, inexplicably) and he heads back to California.

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Washing Machines are quite good, and Dryers also. So a washer-dryer must be amazing! Not true, as anyone who has struggled with one will attest. They wash badly, and dry even worse.

A highly-regarded correspondent recommended a visit to Coco Bongo’s, a nightclub-and-show all-in-one, described as the “best nightclub ever” by the highly-regarded correspondent, and as “Vegas meets Partytime” by the adverts. It was quite impressive (certainly in concept), but considered as a show it is mediocre, and taken as a nightclub it has all the atmosphere of an interval bar.

We were in a washer-dryer! (But needless to say, we had fun anyway.)

If you only have one space in your kitchen, just buy a washing machine.

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On this peaceful island, following several nights of excess, Bevan and I disagreed slightly when I claimed that “you don’t need alcohol to make it good”. We made no headway through rational debate, so decided to investigate the hypothesis practically, counter-argument first.

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On our first full day in Cancun we took a day trip to Chichen-Itza, the Mayan pyramids in the middle of the jungle. The site is supposedly a candidate in the competition to decide the new seven wonders of the world. What’s that all about? If it didn’t make the original list, I don’t see why it would make it this time round.

Furthermore, the Mayans used to play a basketball variant whereby the winner would be given the ‘honour’ of being sacrificed to the gods. Now that just goes against everything we know about natural selection (and general decency to boot). No wonder they couldn’t fight off a few invading tribes! On account of this, we urge you not to vote for their silly pyramids.

Still, it is very impressive to think they made such a large amount of cement to please their gods. It just shouldn’t have been their top priority, it turned out. We think more resources should have been allocated to weapons development.

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Between flights taking us from Las Vegas to Cancun via Houston, we presumed we would meet a rapturous reception in Texas for our nine hour wait. Instead, they’d pretty much closed the airport.

Eventually, we found  some nicely cushioned pews in the multi-faith chapel. It seemed a little disrespectful at first, but then I thought that if a Christian (say) can put up with people worshipping a Muslim god in the same room, then I’m sure they can cope with a bit of sleep.

Satisfied that the whole concept of a multi-faith chapel is flawed I shut my eyes, ready to claim “It’s an ecumenical matter” to any security guard who should question my reasoning.

Stuffed in a bag, the airport’s loo paper made an unexpected star as a pillow.

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On Saturday night the camping group watched me proudly cash in my 50 cents winnings from the slot machines (the real winners like me also get a free drink while they’re playing). That wasn’t nearly impressive enough, and while the rest of the group have gone back to LA to catch flights, Bevan and I are searching the internet for “How to Play Craps” ahead of a second attempt on the Strip.

He’s got this really great scheme whereby if we lose we just keep doubling the amount of money we put down to cover previous losses, ad infinitum. He says it should be fine.

Then on Monday we’re flying to Cancun in Mexico! Why not?

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