Cozumel and first days at Playa del Carmen
¡¡Hola todos!!
After a few days diving at Cozumel grew a bit boring. In fact the scenery was great due to the limestone rocks which form all kinds of caves, caverns and swim troughs. But in terms of fish abundance and reef live, it was after all quite disappointing (see our new pics).
So, we were ready for a new adventure and left for Playa del Carmen on Sunday 8th of June. After another 30 min ferry ride we checked into our new apartment, which will be our home for the next 4 weeks. And we love it!! It's really uebercool. It is a small cozycondo which consists of one bedroom, a kitchen and a living room with a bigggg TV... excellent for watching all the Football matches!! The apparent includes two blocks with a lovely secluded garden in the middle (http://www.residencelacoccinella.com/). We have the ground floor condo with a swimming pool right in front of our little terrace...yes it is Melrose Place... The apartment is situated close to 5th avenue where all the buzz happens during the day and night!
Americans still rule the place but we finally encountered people from other countries as well (many of the apartments in our complex are rented by Italians...great fun since we beat them 3-0 ha ha ha!). There are many great restaurants in our neighborhood and on Sunday we ended up in this really nice Italian restaurant, where we enjoyed fajitas with pollo and several Mexican cervazas (remember, this was an Italian restaurant...).
Yesterday we have started our Spanish course and kicked off with an opening exam. Our home studying turned out to be worthwhile and we were not seen as absolute beginners (feuten)...Guess what, we were put in the same class because our exams were identical (we did not cheat!! ). From around 12.20pm to 14.00pm we have conversational classesfollowed by three hours of private lessons.... after that it is homework in the evening. Unfortunately, we missed theFootball match of Holland against Italy (it was on around 14.00pm here), but were able to see the rerun in the evening without knowing the final result! And what a thrill it turned out to be!! Hup Holland hup, laat de leeuw niet in z´n hempje staan!! .
That's it for today folks. We will check out one of the coolest bars in Playa tonight called the Blue Parrot and have a couple of cervezas on the beach thinking of all you hardworking people at home...
Hasta pronto!!
It has started!!!
The last weeks have passed by in a blur.Leaving work, preparingto move out of the apartment, the move itself which did, we must admit, not go all that smoothly (sorry mam), the saying goodbye to all our friends and family. In short, wewere more than ready for a holiday. Obviously, with our One World around the world ticket, holiday was a bit further away than expected. After an emotional goodbye at Schiphol (tears tears, sob sob), it took us more than 22 hours to reach Cancun, given our unlogical Madrid and Miami stopovers. Then a cabride of about an hour took us to Playa del Carmen. We must admit, our first impression was pretty good (we only stayed one night) and we are looking forward to staying there for another month. The place spells PARTY!! (Carla, bring your partygear, cocktaildresses and high heels, thatseems to be the fashion down here
The next morning we took the ferry to Cozumel (circa 30mins) and while walking through the buzzing 5ht street in Playa with 2 backpags, 2 daypacks and a big suit with all our diving gear it finally unforgivenly struck us: our luggage is totally, fully and ridiculously overweight. Actually we cannot walk more than a hundred meters with it without stopping and Mischa falls over constantly because she cannot carry the weight of her backpack. (Another note to Carla: bring an extra empty bag,we need to cut our luggage bigtime!!).
A short cabdrive from the ferry took us to our hotel. It´s really small (only six rooms) and the only other guests are a Texan father and daughter. By the way: we are the only two non-American tourists on the whole island, quite strange. The next two days we went diving and we must admit, it´s pretty good. Clear waters, beautifull sceneries and quite a lot of fish. Beats our expectations.Hopefully soon we will be able to post a video of today´s wreckdive.
Food is great as well, lots ofmeat, chicken, shrimps all dipped in chili, garlic and onion sauce. Mjummie!!
Will be back soon, until then: hasta la vista!!!
xxx
Thomas & Mischa
PS: Mam, van hartegefliciteerd. We kregen je voicemail maar bellen je morgen nog een keer.
Welcome to our travelblog!!!
Hi everybody and welcome to our travelblog!!!
After months of preparation will leavenext Saturday to travel around the world for a year. Our journey will take us to Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Tahiti, Fiji, Australia, Philipines and Micronesia.
Ourtravelblog will be thé place for you all to keep track of our adventures and experiences during our trip. From today on, you will be able to read our stories andwatch our pictures. Via the map you will be able to always pinpoint where we are and where we have been!
Many of you have already begged to be added to our mailinglist to get you through another boring day
Off coursewe are also very curious to know how things aregoing at home so do not hesitate to leave a message for us once in a while.
Heel veel groetjes,
Mischa & Thomas
xxxx