Must apologise for the delay. We are now in Belize but will write this entry about our last few days in Mexico. We left Playa Del Carmen on Sunday morning dosed up on Diacalm heading for Vallodalid. We arrived 3 and a half hours later to a torrential downpour that even had the locals hiding. After trekking through the labaryinth of side streets we arrived at the hostel we'd been planning to stay at, only to discover it was closed. Soaked to the bone, and beyond caring, we set up camp in the hotel next door. The next morning we managed to track down the elusive hostel owner - Antonio Negro Aguillar, an ex-baseball star from the 50's and 60's who now runs a sports shop and the cheapest hostel in town, with a sideline in
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