Easter school break: Yucatan

Easter school break: Yucatan - Merida, Day 1

For the two-week school break, we booked a few days away to visit the Yucatan region. On Tuesday 11th, we took the 11.30am ADO to Merida, a traffic free comfortable 5-hour journey, however, as we were walking to catch a taxi I twisted my ankle in a pothole - ouch!

When we got to the Hotel Mirador, in a classic comic sketch, while passing the small camera to Jordan we fumbled and managed to send it crashing onto the marble floor ruining the lens. Good start!

Now we have to carry the big beast around all the time!

Good size, two double beds, dark and quiet.

Pool and breakfast restaurant.

After relaxing for a while, we headed into town for a look around and supper. As I freshened up I realized that I had forgotten my makeup at home. Now at almost 50, I need all the help I can get so our wander into town included picking up a few much-needed cosmetics!!

We had a decent supper at La Jarana restaurant overlooking the beautifully square and buildings, then got ice cream for the walk home.

Fuente de la Negrita

La Jarana

Chipotle shrimp

Popular tourist transportation.

Palacio Municipal (Gov.)

Easter procession to the Cathedral.

Our new Airbnb - expectation v reality (Feb 10-Mar 9, 2024)

Our Airbnb experiences have generally been very good with accurate photos and helpful hosts. This time was disappointing. The condo is very modern with 10ft ceilings and in a great location but it was clear that the management company is not aware or keeping up with needed repairs - sunken sofa cushions, lifting tiles, calcified faucet, stained sheets, and completely broken patio furniture that had just been left!! Their response to our messages was quite unhelpful - they didn't seem to care that much so our honest review will reflect this. Instagram ... ... reality ...replaced with two mismatched indoor chairs!! Playa as a whole has gotten busier and outside of the reality of inflation and a stronger peso, everything is much more expensive as happens in popular tourist spots. We are going to look at other more affordable places in Mexico to spend the winter months.

Painful winter travel from the Prairies

Minus 30 degrees below zero apparently causes problems for aeroplanes in the Prairie provinces. We were scheduled to depart at 6.30am January 13th Saskatoon-Calgary-Cancun but received word of cancelation the day before. They rescheduled us to depart at 7.30pm but added in an overnight stay in Vancouver (now SK-VAN-CAN). On Saturday morning we learned of yet another change, slightly better, to SK-Edmonton overnight-CAN, however by Saturday afternoon we got another notice of de-icing problems, crew delays, and departure changes upon which we would be updated within the hour. We waited for the update but no update came. Google informed us that our flight was canceled. Westjet had apparently abandoned us! At the same time, adding to our stress was that Nick was travelling with us but on a separate booking and his cancelations did not coincide with ours. First he would possibly land in Cancun before us, then with his reschedule he would lose almost a week of his vacation. It was...

Trolley Tour in Campeche

We booked this quintessential tourist activity and it was charming. It was of course, a little less amazing when the tour took us around the very neighbourhood in which we were staying, so maybe we should have done the tour earlier on! Independence Square Fisherman statue outside our local OXXO

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