And it carried on in much the same way – lunch view.
You may remember me pointing out the most westerly lighthouse in the photo yesterday. Thought we should stop off.
YIt was a bit windy …..
Sunday – 2 of 3
YYSunday – 3 of 3
And here it is.
And home again. Can’t really do the view justice, so will keep trying.
And a bit more on driving, which so far seems to be the most difficult of anywhere. Combination of:
– an eccentric satnav even though we have it pointing in the right direction
– very aggressive driving – worse than Italy
– incomprehensible small towns and villages with impossibly narrow streets and bad parking.
Ho hum. No scratches on the car yet!
Saturday 24th March
Hopefully the adventure part of this holiday has already passed, and it is more of a relaxing jaunt. More of that in a minute, but here we go.
So here we go. Staying in a lovely little apartment about 40 minutes swest of Lisbon. As you can see, great views from the balcony.
Two parts of the journey represented a mini-adventure. Ryanair being the first, obviously. There is a mild frisson of subversion as the passengers swap their allocated seats so they can sit together, although quickly offset by the discomfort!
Second part is when we pick up the hire car, set the satnav which shows about 50kms, take a wrong turning and it immediately increases to 66. Followed by utter confusion and going round in circles for nearly an hour, but made it eventually. Later on discovered the satnav settings had been set to always showing north which makes life extremely confusing.
But had a walk on the beach.
Where the wind had whipped up quite a foam.
If we look back we can see our apartment.
Climbed up on to the cliff walk with fabulous views. A bit windy, but it is the Atlantic. If you look very carefully you can just make out a lighthouse just left of centre. Allegedly the most western point of mainland Europe.
Finally had some great fish at the restaurant on the beach, while the foam was whipped up even further
And not all selfies work ….
Saturday 27th + Sunday
I’m sitting at home and writing this. Feels very odd and a bit surreal. I had expected to write this at Cancun Airport, but almost unbelievably there is no wifi in their brand new terminal.
Anyway, much improved day as we stopped off at Puerto Muelos – only about 20km from the airport so perfect for the final day.
As per usual, a decent view from a splendid Mexican lunch …
… with personal accompaniment!
Great beach for a walk and a sit – and accessible, unlike Tulum.
Storm was coming – and it did.
More of the locals .
And more yummy gorgeousness (take that how you like!).
Friday continued (2)
Only doing it in bits because wifi is a bit iffy, so can’t send many photos at the same time. Anyway, looks can be deceiving. We don’t really like Tulum, which is a bit surprising given the pics below.
Sitting on some rocks looking over the ocean. But it’s all private and really hard to get to. And the road is incredibly busy – in fact the whole of Tulum is by far the busiest and most expensive place we’ve been to.
View from dinner was fantastic – especially when you add in a flock (?) of about 15 Pelicans dive-bombing the fish to get their evening meal. Wonderful entertainment.
Yours truly contemplating something or other.
So there you go. How on earth can we have got grumpy today? It’s a strange world!
Friday 26th – Tulum
It’s getting towards the end and we are heading up the east coast, destination Tulum. Part of the drive was fun ..
The remainder was the usual deadly dull. You can see a bit in the picture above – the roads are fine, straight and quiet. But the foliage is always about 20-30 feet high and very thick, so you don’t see any scenery – not that there is any because huge swathes of it are this low jungle anyway.
Enough of a moan. Got to Tulum and went straight to the Mayan ruins. Not especially spectacular, apart from the position – right on the ocean.
Friday continued
Part of the ruins ..
And a representation of what it would have looked like.
Found a friend – a Mexican Racoon who introduced himself as Eric.
And one of his pals, Iggy the iguana!
Thursday 25th – Groundhog Day
That is, pretty much the same as yesterday. Note the lake …
… and the wild creatures!
Thursday – Continued
We did get out later on, for a visit to the local fort. And don’t be fooled by grey skies – it’s been high 20s all week which suits us fine.
And on to our favourite restaurant – La Playita. I’ve said before the food has been memorable (in a good way), but this place is terrific.
Pizzas are good, and I had something with such a memorable name that we didn’t bother to write it down. Something like Lacro Choclo – described as a shrimp stew with avocados, sweet potatoes and potatoes, but we think also coconut, ginger, tomato, lime and probably other stuff. Fantastic. Might even beat the Nachos in Valladolid.
And you do spot the weirdest wildlife ….
Wednesday 24th – Just Chillin
With what we’ve done today, it really doesn’t warrant a blog. To be exact we have done precisely zilch. Perhaps I could go for the sympathy vote and say it’s about 26 degrees at 8.00 in the evening, which means we will almost certainly have to go all the way to the fridge to get another cold beer. Any votes?😎
First coffee of the day.
First coffee of the day.
And I don’t think this is being ironic. There have been Christmas trees and decorations ever since we have been here.
Midday came and went.
We did venture out for dinner.
That’s Eileen on the jetty taking photos.
