BAHAMAS

im in the bahamas. i was in new york. i need to fall out of the publics eye like bruce wayne or peter parker circa spiderman 2. i need to eat and get kind of fit. this means less exciting news thus less blogging. i drank way too much and did bad things in mexico so i think i will regenerate and return stronger and smarter for phase 2: europe. stay tuned kids. im out.

cocobongo

cancun… what can i say, i was disgusted by cocobongo last night but still had a lot of fun as it was an open bar. itsnothing like mexico, actually its probaby more like america then america is cos everyone can spend lots of money and its all hollwood stuff its really weird. the guy from beetle juice was there, spiderman fought the green goblin backed by sandstorm(90s rave song) i dunno what was going on there was smoke everywhere and and confetti it was mental. i felt really dirty afterwards… americanos! good way to end mexico though_ also as you see below i had a drunken conversation all in spanish that i was proud of, possibly th e highlight of the night.

Progresso Thinking

Now im in merida but im leaving tomorow so ill give it a hack review. we left merida from vallodolid on thursday with pretty foul weather, actually the night before we left the streets of the town flooded in about an hour. `this? this is no rain!- bike shop owner says the town has no proper draining so it smells like i dont know what when your walking around.. anyway got an ice cold bus to merida to stay for a few days. merida is nice but its inland so i guess its just a way bigger version of towns like vallodolid, but when it comes down to it its just a big grid with a plaza and a church in the middle like most of mexico. plus food stalls, strange smells, lazy dogs etc etc. so yeah we stayed at a nice hostel right on the square, just kind of lazing around before we go to chichen itza and cancun tomorow. the night before last i went out with gaspard (american) and gio(italian) and javiean (mexican) and spent a pretty fruitless search for a good place to drink. ended up in this bizzare art gallery where a reggae band was playing a gig but it was more like they were having a heavy pot smoking session with a few songs in between. anyway the beer was really dirt cheap so that was good for a while and afterwards went to a karoke bar which was really shameless and it was def time to go back. last night went to a beach party in progresso with the same guys and a girl form the czech i think. progresso is on the beach-thats its thing, but its the gulf of mexico. think if the carribean had a brother but they kept him upstairs in the attic and threw it food scraps after they finished eating dinner, thats the difference between the beaches. at 4 they turned the music off so everyone got angry and relocated toa  house party a long way down this dead straight road that ran parralel to the beach. we finally got there and chilled untill sunrise it was really surreal cos there was this huge empty sqaure pool that everyone sat around and just a bare house with nothing in it but speakers. also i was once again the only cacausian looking person but i gues you get used to it after a while and all the mexicans were chill. thats about it im sleepy, back to manboobs (cancun) tomorow and not entirely happy about it.

EDIT: also on the weekend in merida there is a massive fiesta that goes from 5 to i dont know when, late with spanish music, dancers, stalls, food, travestys, everything youd expect but its all very very mexican

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Goodbye Q Roo

Havent posted up for a while and ive got a bit of time to kill so ill give it a go. Im basically working my way deeper into the peninsula(inland) cos for the last week ive been basically living on the beach and there comes a point.. the aussie boys headed back to cancun for their package deal and after sunday night we were all pretty wrecked.. games of mexican, reggae bars, beaches all day, ruins, cenotes, endless beer. it all gets tiring. i planned to leave sunday but instead booked a dif hotel that night, this one was cheaper and closer too the beach so i spent another day down there with the remainder of people i knew from the hostel (most had left) and went to coba (maya city) in the afternoon. coba is meant to be pyramids deep in the jungle but i never made it and continued on down the road to a town called valllodolid. its basically right in the middle of the yucatan and close to a bunch of other stuff, plus i was meeting a few guys on tuesday to go to merida which is also close. vallodolid was/is way better than tulum in that its a really old colonail town that reminded me of puebla and coyacan and everyone is really nice. the thing with mexico is that if you stick on the beach its good but you end up loosing money=the price of living goes up cos your on the carribean and living pretty large if you know what i mean. so vallodolid is rad, and noone speaks english but will laugh and wait for me too drag out my schoolboy spanish..plus not many tourists make it, get sunburnt and thirsty and scamper back to cancun. say a massive taco lunch is 3 bucks, all my dirty laundry from the past week (some bad things) 2 bucks etc etc also the hostel was closed so i went to a  hotel which was 20 bucks full on colonail deal with pool and stuff. haha no clubs to be seen tho :(

EDIT: rode  a bike 10 ks to this massive cenote which owns the one i went too in tulum, completley underground with one light hole shiningn into it, bats, stalactites, german tourists… wicked but kinda cold

 Vallodolid- 4/5