Blogs from Merida, Yucatán, Mexico, North America - page 22

Ok. So here I am in Merida. I LOVE it. Merida is super beautiful and super awesome and clean and safe and wonderful. Guess where I am right now, for example? I'm in the park, with my laptop, using the free wireless that's here. They told me Merida is the safest city in Mexico, if not all of Latin America. Awesome, no? The police here don't even carry guns. And it's really lovely and clean and all the people are so nice and everyone speaks super-clearly so I've understood everything. It's amazing. Oh! And even more unbelievable, dogs here are ACTUALLY pets!! In most of Latin America there are dirty stray dogs all over the place, but all the dogs here are clean and belong to people. My house mother says there are two bad dogs ... read more

Mérida’s Plaza Grande was a Tippi Hedren nightmare. Swarms of birds blanketed the trees of the square, their individual shapes barely distinguishable in the nebulous mass and their macabre chorus almost deafening. Had the carpet of bird droppings not suggested otherwise, I would have been convinced that the high-pitched screeching was produced by an army of bats, not birds. Bathed in the glow of several illuminated reindeer, smitten couples, spongy grandmothers and sleepy-eyed children strolled about the town square, defiant in the face of the faecal fusillade and ceaseless squawking from above. Holidaymakers in horse-drawn buggies chased the last wisps of twilight through the crowded streets, waving cameras at clusters of colonial edifices and confettiing the air with squeals of laughter. Built on the site of a Maya city, Mérida was once considered to have one ... read more

Lord knows how we´re going to justify this one. Without even so much as a half hearted "anniversary" to justify it, we´ve gone and booked ourselves into another boutique, luxury, ridiculously nice, Grand Designs-style hotel from heaven. Regular readers willl spot a trend developing that will probably have us home, destitute and begging from affluent friends by Christmas. Hi guys! The "Medio Mundo" is just about perfect really, interior designed to within an inch of it´s life, staffed by attentive smiley staff, and made solely from gold, platinum and semi precious stones*. It´s making us quite homesick for Brixton. Acually I exaggerate mahossively. Our hotel does rock, but it´s actually only about $2 squid a night more than the flea pit in which we resided whilst in Mexico city. Before this turns into a snippet from ... read more

We left Campeche for Uxmal, another Mayan ruin. This site was different to the others, the most beautiful so far in terms of architecture. Afterwards we stopped into to see a Mayan family who made hammocks and grew a lot of their own vegetables and herbs. We arrived in Merida in the late afternoon to more rain. We have a free day tomorrow, hopefully it won't rain. I'm just looking forward to sleeping in.... read more

And I didn't buy more cameras. Don't know if my last week in the Yucatan will leave me time to take pictures. I'm a very busy Texan trying to soak up all the fun I can on these last days of a real vacation! Enjoy!... read more