Going loco

Mexico has been exceeding all our expectations, which been significantly lowered by every American we had met in the US. Unfortunately the prices have also exceeded our expectations which has made us keen to get a move on and search for paradise further south.

First of all there were some must do´s we had to deal with.

From San Blas we took the monster 23 hour bus via Tepic to Acapulco after the Puerto Vallarta bus was cancelled. On this trip we were accompanied by the Irish Hangover couple. Late arrivals and newly crowned members of the San Blas social club (and in his case, a victorious ManU fan who we watched the game with and actually met because we all decided to stay an extra night to watch the footy), enter, stage-left, Nico and Ines. Friendly, easy going and refreshingly non-judgemental, they (well, Nico) certainly don´t mind a drink, and have been great company.

We saw the famous cliff divers of Acapulco in the morning and blagged our way into a swank beachfront hotel pool area in the afternoon, ate amazing 100% Natural soya burgers and the best guacamole so far, and got back on the bus to the surf centre Puerto Escondido. By this time we had already bumped into the Irish again, and of course, they were on the bus.

PE was a cool town though the Zicatela surf beach was a bit zen for us, the town´s coves were charming if a little packed. We had a war with several species of ants of various sizes (large, very large, and f***ing-massive-red-and-flying) eventually defeating them by spraying all the electricity sockets in the room - well Jamie did that while Anna took them on in hand to hand combat!


Big waves at Puerto Escondido