Day 3 in Mexico (Tropical Storms, dodgy food and slow buses)

Hola from Mexico!!

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1 - Mexico is beautiful but stupidly rainy. We have come for the rainy season... and when they say rainy, they mean non-stop torrential deluge.

2 - The airport announcements are not to be trusted - we missed our first flight (from Mexico City to Acapulco) in spite of being at the boarding gate an hour before our flight. Roger blames the airport. I think jet lag may have played some part in it!

3 - The food is also somewhat underwhelming - or at least NOTHING like the stuff they serve up in "Mexican" restaurants in the West! Everything is bland OR smothered in powdery cheese, chillis and alien spices. Help!

The trip so far:

Having stayed an unplanned night in Mexico City, we flew to Acapulco where we spent a day finding our sea legs. High rises by the beach, pouring rain and dirty sea had limited appeal so we spent day two on a luxury 8 hour bus (rickety, third class, 9 1/2 hours...) to Puerto Escondito - one of the surfing captitals of the world.

Unfortunately it has rained since our arrival yesterday evening. Yesterday evening we swam (well, paddled) in the sea, awed by the scarily big waves. We are staying in a lovely hotel with pool and a hot tub on the roof overlooking 360 panorama of beach/mountains/jungle. Awesome.

The plan was to next head to Mezunte a beach 40km south of here where my friend Sarah, who I met in Goa, is working, then on to Oaxaca and San Cristabel for olde worlde colonial charm, before hitting Palenque for Mayan ruins and waterfalls, and then out of Mexico to Belize for Caribbean coral diving. However... we have just heard that Tropical Storm Frank is working His way up the coast towards us, which sucks so we're about to start working out where the sunny weather might be... in the entire region of central america!!

Bus journeys also take longer than previously imagined... Mexico is HUGE and the roads are BAD!

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Adios!

Ryan