Sombrero´s n Tequila - Mexico City 24/05 - 26/05

Ok so we´ve been in Mexico for 5 days now and no one has been sat under a tree in a sombrero and I havn´t passed out through too much tequila........

I´m not sure if these are good facts or not, make your own mind up! We arrived in Mexico City airport at the ungodly hour of 4.30am following an unsurprising flight of me tossing and turning withing for sleep to no avail. A stroke of good luck though, we (ok I ) didn´t account for the time difference between there and Canada so it was actually 6.30am - It just meant that the City was actually awake and the undesirables who would have undoubtably have robbed us were hiding away wherever these people go in daylight hours.

So we headed to our Hostel that we booked online from Canada - gotta love the internet! There is a cool underground system in Mexico City that costs 2pesos to go anywhere ( 10pence)

Spent 2 days in the city, the first in a big park, checkin out some stalls and went for a peddle boat ride on the lake, then the second day we headed to a place called Zocalo which is like a big town square. There are some photo´s attached through the photobucket link. There were lots of folk dressed in foreign clothes dancing - I´ve been told there may be more of this as we travel in different countries - funny that eh?

So yeah, our ongoing thirst to see new and exciting things (which includes foreign folk doing foreign things like dancing) was quenched.

We were interviewed by some children who wanted to practice English, they had some iteresting questions for us such as

"Do you have Urban gangs in your country?" -

to which I replied

"We have hoodies??"

And also

"Are you a part of the Hippie Movement?" Needless to say I think they were a little behind the times, or else the funky smell we have started to give off from the hot wether has made us resemble the great unwashed longhairs of the 60´s??

Anyway - We need to be on a beach. One flight to the beach please.

That is we fly to Cancun (the 2 hr flight is better than 28hrs on a bus and cost about a tenner more) and hop on a bus to Tulum - Beach life baby!!

Canada Photos

Photobucket Album - Just Click on the photo and it will bring you to our Canada Photos Gini *^_^*

Vancouver Calling

So we have come to the last few days in Canada. Unfortunately the weather has not been as good here as I am hearing it has been back home typical, this morning we were woken by the loudest thunder i have ever heard at 6.30. We have had 2 days of great sunshine and tomorrow and Thursday are due to be great.

We have been having a great time with our hosts Meg, Ger and Isabella. Meg and Ger live in a town about 40 minutes outside Vancouver called Port Moody. It is a really nice little town very family orientated and they love their exercise there are running and walking trails everywhere.

We have been shown the sights of Vancouver, it is a really beautiful city as you walk down the street you look to the right and there are these huge snow capped mountains. We walked down along the North Shore it is a walk with parks along one side and the ocean on the other. We brought Bella out on her first picnic by the beach, she seemed to like it. As we walked down by the water was saw some Inuksuk which are stones balanced on each each other by Native Canadians. It has been done for centuries and were used as man made land marks for navigation and they look pretty cool.

On Saturday we went to Kitsilano Beach it is a really popular beach where you can sit on the sand and look up to the mountains. We opted to sit in the shade on the grass because the beach was so packed and it is a bit of a meat market. Dolly birds in bikinis, D&G sunglasses and high heels! Nice. We are hoping to head back down if the weather picks up again tomorrow, can't wait to go swimming again. We had Sunday lunch at Ger's parents home it was so nice they get all the kids and grandkids over every Sunday and have a big family dinner, this Sunday they opened the pool it was so nice the weather wasn't as hot as the day before so it wasn't uncomfortable just great.

We had a trip to the Capilano Suspension Bridge which is as wide as 2 747s wing to wing and very very high and bouncy. Needless to say I didn't cross it but Stu and Meg headed across and explored the other side. It has some really good native art but weirdly enough it was built and owned by a Scottish guy so there was Celtic music playing.

Vancouver is such a great City I would tell everyone to come to visit. We keep saying that we would love to come to stay maybe we will look into a visa hummmm well we should just think about one trip at a time. Well we only have a few days and we are hoping to have as good a time as we have already. The locals are to coin a Canadian phrase "Super Nice" we have been met with such warm hospitality by everyone. Hopefully the next bit of this journey will be as good as here.

We here we have booked our Hostel for Mexico City it looks nice and hopefully it will live up to the reviews we have a long stop over in LAX to get over when we hit the hostel!

Thanks to our hosts Meg, Ger, Bella and their parents for being so welcoming.

Canada stuff

It's Stu,

This is it - the first post from a different country. I will endeavor to make these pages as entertaining as possible in my own literary stylie. If anyone is offended by my straight to the point view of people and places...well thats too bad, hey I won't be using too many expletives in my posts - just when necessary to make my point - I'm sure most of it will be nothing but glowing reports to tell you all how fuckin fantastic things are!

So 10 hours onna plane..... It wasn't that bad actually, it was a day flight so I wasn't just looking round at those lucky bastards that find it easy to sleep on flights!

Thomas Cook airlines is pretty cool, TV in the back of the seat showing movies and lots of leg room. Thats it for me pluggin airlines - like they dont have enough custom without my little endorsement!

It started on the flight over here. That feeling that something good has started, I know something has, hell I'm on a plane on the way to Canada but as I look out of the window to the north I see the Rockies. The seeing of beautiful things that leave us in awe has begun. A vast expanse of snow topped mountains like I have never seen, it was sooo cool.

So Meg is the friend in Canada we are staying with, along with Jeramiah (her bloke) and Isabella (her baby).

The weather hasn't been great so have spent time hangin round in the apartment but we have been sampling the local alcohol (a theme I intend to continue throughout our trip with abundance!)

Havin lots of fun on the down low at the moment - a good time without going wild just yet, theres plenty of time for that.

We went for a walk through some woods - I had to insist we walk or stroll - I'm in no shape to be "trekkin" just yet - just the word has the connotations of steep mountains and hills that would undoubtably leave me wheezing and puffing like the unhealthy, out of shape man that I know I am. Hey I suppose I should work on that before I head to Machu Picchu :-)