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Playa del Carmen

admin posted this on Apr 30th 2007 under Mexico

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.

Since we will need a taxi to the airport leaving our hotel at 4am, Bevan thinks we should have one final mad party at a beach bar before heading straight there. I’m saying that since we have paid for the night at the hotel, I want to get my money’s worth for the room and sleep instead.

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Cancun

admin posted this on Apr 29th 2007 under Mexico

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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Isla Majeures

admin posted this on Apr 27th 2007 under Mexico

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.

I don’t recall the conclusion, but I noted that we never saw a Mexican drink tequila. I think the drink is their private joke on the world, and the whole salt-and-lemon thing proves it.

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Chichen-Itza

admin posted this on Apr 25th 2007 under Mexico, Photos

Chichen-ItzaOn 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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