The Hotel

Friday morning, got up and had a bit of a look round the hotel, pretty nice. I took some photos looking out from my balcony and around the swimming pool and at the beach, just like some of the pictures in the travel books, nice blue waters and golden beaches.
It’s low season here right now, not a real lot of people around, I would guess my hotel is probably only 30% full, am told in a few weeks though that high season will start.
Some one had told me of a place to visit last night called “Tulum”, about 140Kms away, worth a trip or so I thought, apparently there are some Mayan ruins there. Got about half way there and realised that I’d forgot my digital camera, remembered the DVD but not the other one, too late to turn back so I pressed on.
Mexican drivers are a little crazy, so once you learn to expect the unexpected which is the norm here not too bad, think I like them better than American drivers who all think they are good, but just seem to point as the cars are so big and don’t seem to be as aware of people around them as the Mexicans.
Got to Tulum, couldn’t find the ruins just drove around for ages going where I thought the signs said. In the end went in a local Taco bar got something to eat, asked the locals, which I should have done before, any way it turned out the ruins were just down the road but by the time I got there they were closing, so that was that, back to Cancun which was about 1-2 hrs away, dark by the time I got back.
Had said to myself before setting out to Tulum that I would take the car back tonight when I got back and on Saturday just chill out around the swimming pool and in town but now I’m not so sure my venture this way again, seem a shame to be in Mexico and not see anything, more on that later. That pretty much sums Friday up bit of a dead loss really was driving most of the day and did not really see a lot, wish I’d had the camera with me took a bit of video footage but no still shots.
Went out when after I got back, couple of the bars must have been in chains remembered the names from when I had worked in Saltillo in the north of Mexico a few years ago, names were Carlos and Charlie’s http://www.carlosandcharlies.com/ and Senor Frogs
http://www.senorfrogs.com/