Curse of Cancun

21st September

Packed up in high spirits and headed to the bus station for a lift to the airport. We arrived and headed to check-in... so far so good... however once there we had a slight problem... the stupid woman at the Tulum travel agency who booked our tickets booked us onto the wrong flight – from Mexico city to Cancun!! Wanted to scream but remained calm. It's the curse I tells ya...the curse of Cancun! These tourist traps just won't let us leave! We had no choice but to bite the bullet and fork out an extra load of cash on a new flight. Painful. Due to these unforeseen circumstances we have now had to introduce a 'saving money' day – one a week for the next few weeks, where we try to not spend any money, in order to make up for the shortfall. The painful thing is that we had decided not to book the flight ourselves because we thought the travel company would do it cheaper :.-( Note to all – boycott Tulum travel agencies should you go there in future.

Pepe was happy to eventually leave Cancun.


The flight back was fairly uneventful and we found a bus to the nearest metro station (to save money rather than get an airport taxi). On the bus we agreed that we both felt 'at home' returning to Mexico city. We got off the bus and went into the metro, at that point a young guy we'd said hello to on the bus ran after us with Alex's wallet. It had fallen out of Al's pocket! Again.... the Cancun curse – will it follow us forever?! We were seriously happy that this guy had returned it obviously, really friendly guy – see what I mean about Mexican's being friendly? I think we were pretty lucky he noticed it. So we arrived in our hotel room and promptly tore up all Cancun bus and plane tickets we had, in order to rid ourselves of the curse. We are also staying in a lovely (cheap) hotel in the centre of town (Hotel Isabel) and it's right next to the main Cathedral, so hopefully that will ward off the curse.

Anyway, it's onwards and upwards at this point: tomorrow we fly to Houston and then get a connecting flight to Lima,Peru, where our next adventures begin. Until then adios amigos!!