SmaviesAdventures

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

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