Krini

Having been to, clambered around and written about far too many ruins in the last couple of months, I just couldn’t bear to neither write nor subject you, my patient readers, to yet another of my accounts of our visit to a pile of rocks. So I enlisted help in the shape of the boyfriend to try and “mix it up”. Introducing Elliott the Travel Blogger: Tikal Tikal was apparently the show stopper for ruins in Central America, and certainly the major draw for Guatemala. Although we were somewhat ruined (ha ha) by visiting what seemed like every old pile of rocks in Mexico, we had heard good things about Tikal and were excited to finally visit. Unlike other Mayan ruins we had visited, especially the manicured tourist madness of Chichén Itzá, Tikal is a different ... read more

I am going to begin this tale when we got to Quintana Roo, the Eastern-most state in Mexico on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. Thus leaving out a fairly soggy interlude that saw us travelling all around Chiapas and Tabasco states to try to get to Palenque when the roads were blocked by protesters. We did eventually get there and enjoyed the beautiful ruins despite intermittently heavy rain. However, this chapter is going to be about the two weeks that my mum, Karin, came out to visit us and to spend my birthday with me. It all starts on Isla Mujeres... Isla Mujeres Elliott and I had actually thought we might spend a month or so somewhere on the Mexican Caribbean coast if the diving was good and we could find a cheap place ... read more

I last left our tale as we were heading towards that metropolis of metropolises, La Ciudad de Mexico, and although it is now almost two weeks since we left that grand place, I have a ‘few’ photos and comments to share… I am writing to you from the coast of Oaxaca on the Southern Mexican coast, but all that in good time. Mexico City La Ciudad de Mexico (DF in local speak for federal district) is big - REALLY BIG! We were told our bus would take three hours, and we didn’t believe it as usual. But true enough, after three hours we reached the city limits - then it just took another hour to drive through the rush hour traffic to the bus station. Likewise, when we left the city three days later from the ... read more

Pacific Dreams So, once again I find myself including a few too many photos... Sorry everyone - I tend to think they tell a story of their own, as I’m not actually expecting anyone to struggle through my longwinded stories :) I’ll try to keep it short this time... Maruata I guess I should’ve learned by now that anywhere described in the Lonely Planet isn’t actually going to be anything like what I imagine. This also turned out to be true for the first stop on our search for the Pacific Dream: Long white-sanded beaches with palm trees and cabanas with ocean views. Maruata is described just like that; a secluded little Oceanside village (with potentially no electricity, we read online) known only for the sea turtles that come here and lay their eggs at night ... read more

North America On the road again... How time flies. Not long ago, I had 3 months in London stretching out in front of me, in which I was going to get so much stuff done. So much stuff! And what did I do? I worked, saved some money, saw my friends and family. But I didn't get my blogs finished, and I didn't sort out all my photos. I did enjoy not travelling for a few months, though, not living out of a backpack, not moving all the time. But I also knew that I'd be looking forward to travelling again very quickly. And sure enough, after the novelty of working and wearing warm clothes in the cold weather wore off, I was dreaming of Mexican beaches and Mayan ruins again :) So here I am ... read more