Paul spends all his days diving and Diane photographs most of the (sea)birds on the beach.

Hi, Diane writing this for a change.  Paul has been *so* busy diving he has delegated this section to me!   Whilst he was busy I took more Spanish lessons, but I’m still not much good.  I went snorkelling with turtles and rays, got bored with sunbathing and took far too many photos of birds […]

Diane goes to the dogs and I go diving

Whenever we walk to Siempre (also known as Walmart) to buy some stuff, we pass the Palacio Municipal.  Occasionally, they light it up rather attractively.  Recently, I’ve been buying watches in Walmart, as I need to time things underwater when I’m teaching students.  The first one cost 140 pesos, about £7.  It lasted about a […]

Life in Playa and Chichen Itza

Going to Spanish lessons gives us a bit of a shape to our day.  We normally get up for about 7:30am, have breakfast and then pop over to the school for 9:30.  We finish at 1:30, and then have lunch at one of a number of taco places along the road.  After a quick trip […]

Dia de Muertos and a Mayan Village

Up early on Sunday to go on a trip to a Mayan household and village celebrating the Day of the Dead, Dia de Muertos, where they get together to celebrate and remember friends and family who have died. The trip only runs once a year (obviously J) and has only been run once before, so […]

Gatwick to Playa del Carmen

Well, our obsessive tracking of Hurrican Rina showed her weakening all the time, so our Saturday flight began to look like a runner.  We managed to check in online on Friday morning, so we had some confidence it would go.  To celebrate, we went and watched the changing of the guard.  Then back to Gatwick […]

Mexico, No bikes, and Hurricane Rina

We’ve been back from the US for about 6 weeks, and apart from a couple of cycling trips and a brief interlude diving in the Azores for me, we’ve been preparing to go to Central and South America.  As well as a bit of research, this has mostly boiled down to clearing the house out, […]