I spent seven of those hours sleeping and a further two hours practicing my Spanish only to discover that I was still completely unintelligible to the hombre at the desk at the Hostel. Fortunately I have focused on a couple of things learned from earlier travels where I discovered that the most important thing was to be able to ask "how much" ¿Cuánto es? and be able to reliably understand currency amounts. It doesn´t make for interesting conversations but at least you don´t feel an idiot handing wads of cash at the person you are trying to buy a bottle of water from.
Failing to have taken any photos in the time I have been here, I will attempt to attach one of the cubicle in the Internet Café. It pretty well sums up my thoughts of central Cancun: smelly, dirty and hot. However, like the Computador in the café everything seems to work despite being held together with duct tape.I´m planning on going to see the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza (apparently Chichen is not Spanish for "chicken" - who knew?) and then on to Mérida tonight, so hopefully my phtographic images (and blog topics) will improve a little by tomorrow.
For the next week I´ll be in eastern Mexico and may try to get down through Belize and Guatemala and then I´m heading on to Costa Rica for about 10 days.
Saludos
David
1 comment:
Hi Becky,
A tip for ensuring you don't pay too much - I always checked out the cash register (where there was one!) to confirm my limited foreign language currency knowledge was correct :-).
xx
Fi
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