On the 9th of Jan, after a tearful goodbye to our families, we headed to the airport to catch our flight to Cancun. My Spanish skills were tested far sooner than expected, when I made the mistake of making eye contact with the couple at the check in desk next to us who were struggling to understand the TUI staff telling them they couldn’t check in their broken bag. After a long time of not speaking Spanish I think I may have been more of a hindrance than a help. I got the message across that the bag needed to be checked in on a different section, but mixing up the words for behind and under/downstairs may have hindered their progress slightly. Hopefully my gesturing helped and they’re not still stuck in Gatwick looking for special luggage zone B on the wrong floor…
The flight itself was… Interesting. Within 5 minutes of boarding the woman next to Grace had taken her shoes and socks off and applied a facemask and the guy across from me had downed a bottle of wine to prevent the hostess confiscating it. On the plus side we did get a cream tea as part of the inflight meal and watching Mexicans try and figure out what the hell it was and how to eat it was amusing, my personal favourite being the man who ate a clotted cream buttered bread roll.
In Cancun we stayed at a beautiful 5 star hotel my uncle/Grace’s dad (hi Colin!) had kindly treated us to. I restarted my old habit of being ill in beautiful places by vomiting in an immaculately kept bush outside the hotel (yay Crohn’s disease!). After checking in, our three days there mostly consisted of sleeping off jet lag and planning out our next few weeks in Mexico. Which was handy as it rained most of the first two days, we got a bit of sunshine in on the third, had a nice walk along the beach and a sunbathe.
We also ventured out in the rain for the first tacos I’ve had since the last time we were in Mexico, I’ve only just recovered from eating them daily the last time.
Next we’re off to Tulum, I’m currently sat on a bus writing this (trying not to repeat the bush incident!). It was one of our favourite places in Mexico last time we visited and as it’s only two hours by bus away we figured we’d head there for a few days again.
I’ll let you know how it went soon. Lots of love, Alice x