Starting again…

Ok, so from my last tour i only got half way through posting about India yer after that I visited Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam… and must more things happened. too much to write and thats why i just never got round to it. i was trying to tell too much in one go. not enough hours in the day to do that. so this time i am going to keep the posts brief and aim to do one post at least, every time i come online. it will be the first thing i do….well will it…but i will try and keep up slightly more than i did last time to keep you guys in the know.

at the moment i am in mexico, tulum, with mark. the flying was fine - 2 flights in total, 2 days. we flew from heathrow termianal 5 (and dont worry we did recieve our luggage at the other end) to la. omg, the worst airport ever – almost as bad as delhi. after disembarking we had to wait for approx. 1.5hrs in the que for passport control because their computers were down. stupid people. then we waited another hr ish for the shuttle which was supposed to take us to our hostel. or not. it did not come and we had to call the hostel, another chore and eventually got there (it being only about a mile or 2 down the road) 3 hours after our flight landed. knackered, we slept, and got up again at 3am to be back at the airport. we then flew on to cancun. lovely airport, good flight.

at this airport after claiming baggage we had to find our way to our hostel. when we had booked this the agent had told us that tulum, where our hostel was located, was 2just down the beach from cancun2 and that the hostel itself was like “little huts right on the beach”. we soon found out that this was not the case. to get to the hostel we would either have to take 2 busses – $8 each. or a shuttle $40 ish each or a taxi $150approx for us both….this was because tulum is 80 MILES DOWN THE COAST FROM CANCUN!!!!!!!!! yer sure, just down the beach. i had the impression we could walk to it. error. so we ended up taking the shuttle.

on getting there we got to our room…which has a tree in it!!!!! growing through the roof. anyways, it is not a wooden hut on the beach as expected either, but a shack with v thin walls and concrete floor and a small toilet place in one corner. hmmm. i felt kinda bad coz mark is on his holiday and it really isnt the kinda room you would want to stay in if you are on holiday. appraently he is ok with it though but doesnt stop me from feeling bad still.

the next day after a good sleep we figured we would try and find the beach. so we set off down the road which we thought it was – which went on forever. we walked along this long stretch of road that never seemed to en before reaching the beach after 30mins!!!! yer right on the beach….you just have to walk a couple of miles first. and mum – the pedometer on my phone told me that that day i walked 20500ish steps. double the daily amount it was a lovely beach however. and i had a chance to practise some of my broken spanish. we were at a bar by the beach and i needed the loo. tried asking in english first but the guy had no clue and thought i was talking about mesa (table in english). so i was spurting off loads of different ways to say tolet in english…bathroom, restroom etc….and then it came to me so i shouted el baño loudly. ahhhhh then he knew what i was on about. and today i learnt the word for bill which had been bugging me.

yesturday we got a taxi to the beach which was only $4 – turns out we should have just got a taxi in the first place. this made it much more enjoyable. we saw the ruins at tulum and the mega busy beach right next to it. mark burnt his feet pretty bad thought so we have remained in the shade today just chilling. been trying to figure out what else we are ghoing to do while we are here. we have a lot of choice and i want to do it all. talked myself out of wanting to do swim with dolphins after i decided it was mean as they shoukd be free in the wild. but we still have the choice of snorkelling in the cenotes (cave things), go skuba diving (which will cost us approx 200 english pound each but is a 4 day course with certification at the end) or a place just up the coast (and when i say just up the coast i mean just up the coast not 80 miles) to a place called xen-ha or something where you can see turtles and stuff. but that would also be expensive and would only be a day trip. so many things to do and so little money to do it with. it sucks. 
  

so yer this internet is free - its on our hotel reception and there is no time limit so its perfect. makes up for there not being much else that is very close. i have been eating meat again – ptch. chicken isnt too bad here, been eating many chicken fajitas and its crazy to say but i actually dont think actual mexican is as nice as old el paso fajitas. you dont get as much sauce or as much flavour and the actual wraps are way more floury which isnt such a nice taste. first time i have eaten meat in a foriegn place for years though.

anyways, leave me a post and let me know whats going down in the world of norwich. il get back next timeim online, fingers crossed.

p.s this post isnt as short as i thought it would be but i had the time so hey. lol. much love xxx

 

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