A Catch up from Mexico City

Hi Everybody,

Well time is slipping away. Here we are in Mexico City - got here yesterday and leave again on Tuesday, on to Los Angeles for three nights then it's back to dear old Oz.

Been pretty full on since I last posted. Our last night in Cancun was huge - met a delightful couple from Florida and the four of us just 'clicked' and ended up having a wild night drinking cocktails and several sets of 'orgasms' - luckily as I said I think the alcohol was diluted or we'd have been sick puppies getting on the flight the next day! Anyway it was one of those meetings where you just have the feeling that one day we'll all get together again - I do hope so.

Then it was on to Cuba - well we're pretty sure it will be the 'jewel in the crown' of this trip. I'm actually putting together a long story on our Cuban experience. I'll post it once I'm home for those of you who are interested - but it will be a very long post. I've put it together for various people so it's fairly general - eg our travel agent is keen to know how we found it since we're his first customers ever to go there (that's in probably 20 years!), also some friends and family wanted to knw all the ins and outs.

I've posted a few photos for you all but what I plan to do once we're home is to upload all the photos into albums in Picasa then post a link here and if you want you can go in and browse to your hearts content.



Papa Bear with Ryde



Papa Bear and Grannie Annie with the Rio Grande river in the background



Reid, Christy and the two boys on the train outing From Sante Fe to Lamy




Papa Bear and Cord

Our unit in Cancun was upstairs here - you can just see one of the room maids coming out of the door



They had these beds with curtains all around the pool at Cancun and also in the lobby bar - I'm just trying one out!



Bloss and I at La Isla shopping centre in Cancun



Reclining in the bed in the Lobby Bar with a cocktail





Bloss wanted all you blogger people to see me hard at work at the side of the pool with my laptop!



Here I am at Havana airport with all our bags



This is the view from our room in the Hotel Nacional in Havana



Bloss and I in a square in Old Havana

Whilst doing the above tour we met a delightful young Irishman who we went out on the town with later that night. These are genuine mojitos made in the El Floridita bar, frequented by the writer Ernest Hemmingway. He had a very strong connection with Cuba for 20 years and
is much loved by the people of Cuba. More about that in my Cuban Experience story.



This is me with Robbie our young Irish friend, having tea in a little restaurant in Old Havana. I'm having Cimarone Bruschette - grilled shrimps with rice mixed with black beans. Delish!



By the time the night ended we were at the silly stage - think I was taking a running jump into the lift here!

Some of these are out of sequence but you'll get the drift - Bloss, Robbie and in taken at the bar in El Floridita

Much later in the evening in a bar somewhere with Michael who we encountered who was also from Ireland and Pablo, a native Cuban


Bloss and I did a Hemmingway tour visiting his former home which is now a museum, all his former haunts and the fishing village of Cojimba where his boat was moored. This is a bust to commemorate him.

And this big building up on the hill is our hotel - just like a grand old lady!

OK that will do for now. I can feel now that I've gained weight - the first place - that roll above my waist - yikes it's growing but my promise to me (and you) is that in 8 days time I'll be firmly back on the healthy eating (and no drinking) path.

Sorry haven't been able to even read your blogs this past week - will just have to do a big catch up when I get home.

Take care everyone
Love Z xx