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75 things that we've learnt while travelling

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So everyone talks about travel being an amazing opportunity to see and learn more about the world and all the wonderful things it has to offer. Food 1. Ron is the Spanish word for rum This really surprised me, but mostly because the Harry Potter books must read really differently in Spanish Book: And then Harry got into the car with Ron Spanish Reader: yep Book: And the car started to fly Spanish Reader: Obviously Book: And they crashed the car into the tree Spanish Reader: Well that's quite common with Ron and driving 2. Papaya tastes yucky, especially when you think it's orange juice So bad! 3. Most Mexican food isn't Mexican By this I mean that everything you think of as Mexican food isn't really. Chile Con Carne for example is actually Texan. Although we did have Burritos and Quesadillas which were really good. 4. Burek is akin to Mana  Unlike Papaya, so good! Burek is meat, cheese or vegetables wrapped in pastry and then eaten, it's

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Puerto Morelos The wonky old Lighthouse So off we went from Tulum roaring down the road towards out final destination. For this we had chosen Puerto Morelos, a small fishing town (or a small drinking town with a fishing problem as one bar described it). Although there are other more famous places we could have gone to such as Playa del Carmen or Cancun we had decided on Puerto Morelos as it was described as being less busy and resorty but a little more charming. For this reason it was a little bit of a shock when we had been bombarded by people asking us into their shop as soon as we stepped out of the taxi that had run us the few miles from the bus station to the sea front.  Beautiful cups at Lola y Moya Our time here was short and generally meant to be relaxing, as a result there wasn't a breadth of things that we had planned to do apart from walking by the sea front and seeing the wonky old lighthouse. We did however find an amazing cafe place called Lola y Moy

Tulum: Paradise by the Sea

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Paradise by the Sea At the beach Journey The journey here was really easy and simply consisted of flagging a bus down from outside our accommodation in Chichen Itza and then going all the way to Tulum. We hopped off the bus and made our way to the next place we were staying. But we were early, I know right, what is it with these short non-20-hour bus journeys? So we left our bags and went off in search off food, it's what we do best afterall. A turtle we found at our accommodation The place that we ended up going to was at the other end of town and served the most fantastic burritos! Burrito Amor is named after love and we did indeed love the burritos. We had a vegetable burrito and a bean and cheese burrito. What really made it though were the garlic and chipotle sauces that came with all the goodness. The fresh juice is certainly something we'll miss back in England as well. I can see the sea! Tulum is a bit of an odd place as there are effectively th