Ola friends, sit back and listen to our tale of The Last Days in Mexico .. MOSQUITOS! MOSQUITOS! MOSQUITOS EVERYWHERE !!!! That out of the way, Playa is truly a great place. Not quite a paradise, as a paradise is reserved for those very special places, but a tropical tourists dream. The roads go on right into the sea, whitesand beaches, almost clear water, coral reefs and whatnot. Our hotel was a bit pricey, but the pool was propper nice, big and deep at the right places, and the restaurant served reasonable food, most of the time. The beach was as [View Full Entry]

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So friends, the journey across Yucutan has taken us to Tulum, what seemed to be a tropical paradise, azur ocean and beach ad libitum. As soon as we arrived, we went to the beach area and booked a cabaña. Now, a cabaña is basically a wooden hut, with a fletched roof - ours was with a private bathroom in the cabaña. In there a small smelly bed, with a protective mosquito net cover. Overlooking the beach, here we stayed at our primitive ocean fantasy resort. The trouble was, the beaches were very dirty, as the hurricane tore them up and filled [View Full Entry]

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From the hurricane .. on to Mérida. After not having electricity and propper food for two days, we decided to take it real easy and relax. This was to be our last propper city stop, before a week long tour of the Carribean beaches of Mexico. Merida hostel turned out to be an allright place, but with a LOT of mosquitos. Merida is actually a pretty big place (size of Copenhagen), laid out in a grid, so all streets are numbered (e.g.: we lived on the corner of street 60 and street 59). The streets are narrow and charming, although it [View Full Entry]

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Ola amigos .. So, we thought all was safe and well in Chetumal, but it sure wasn´t. People sleeping in the bus station, franticly trying to get out of there, everybody getting ready for the hurricane that was heading exactly this way. We arrived at our hostel at 04:30, and were met by people still up, unable to sleep. Two ( very nervous) americans, a (confused) german, a (happy) canadian and an (pleasant) englishman, the hostess, Lilia (very friendly), Kevin the (crazy and horny) dog and us two danish (looking for trouble). Especially the americans couldn´t understand why we came to [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to the jungle ... mexican style at least. It is safe to say that this portion of our trip is the one which got the most mixed reviews from the two of us. I think its fair to say that Mie is not a jungle person. On the bus, we chatted up an australian girl - Coleen. When we arrived, we got into a taxi and off we were to El Panchán - a jungle surrounded site, where many different hostels have their base. After some initial confusion, too pricy or booked hostels, we ended up at a place called [View Full Entry]

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12/8 - 16/8 San Cristóbal So friends.. On the bus again.. this time we were doing the nightbus, which went okay, except Mies feet swole up for two or three days (mie: which could KILL me). As expected, San Cristóbal is nice and cool .. the high mountain air and the evening rain chills the place down. That means t-shirt during the day, something waterproof in the evenings and two thick blankets at night, a weather that suited us fine after the Escondido sun. S.C is great. Women in traditional dresses all over, carrying their young in slings - the people [View Full Entry]

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9/8 - 11/8 Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca -- Hola Amigos .. We left Oaxaca City after hanging out with some excellent people, Dan & Pete from England and Julia & Alex, Stefan & Anne both couples from Germany. It really started to feel like a relaxed travelling experience from here. The bus to Puerto was a killer, bad and loud spanish movies (The talking dog movie again!) - 11 hours of sitting down. The first impression you get of Puerto is the incredible humidity, which hits you like a wall of hot, moist air. Welcome to the Pacific coast. With Stefan and [View Full Entry]

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Oaxaca 7/8 - 9/8 Early in the morning, we cleared Mexico City.. The experience of that super-huge city was in many ways unsatifactory - the city is noisy, hectic and in my opinion lacked charm. If we have had a month there, we might have gotten a more fullfilling impression. The ammount of cultural sights is staggering. We decided to skip Puebla and go straight down, so we took the primera bus to Oaxaca.. and what a change. Oaxaca is a relaxed colonial town south of M.C, charming and welcomming. Our hostel was excellent, clean with a great private double right [View Full Entry]

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So we finally got to Mexico City .. At the arrival, we set our goal NOT to be robbed at the airport, which we managed without problems.. The hostel is .. different. We were warned beforehand by Mie's neighbours that the hostel might be a little crummy. and it is.. The highlights include: NO hot water, smell of old socks, no change of sheets and the place is located in the middle of a street marked. The people designing the internet ratings must be on drugs. Anyway, we settled as there are no other hostels rooms free anywhere else. At least [View Full Entry]

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Copenhagen - Rostock prokop suchánek There was a significant build-up towards the G8 summit this year. The leftist parties were buzzing with preparations in order to gather a big and peaceful appearance in Rostock. We woke up at 6 in the morning, made our lunches and went off to the central station in Copenhagen. From here, some 10 buses were filled with people, and off we went to Gedser, the connecting ferry station. The ferry was boring, so I spent my time sleeping. As soon as we landed in Germany, a swarm of German poli [View Full Entry]

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