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After all that whining about the Riviera Maya, you might suspect that I dragged myself with a long face through the Yucatan for five weeks. Couldn’t be further from the truth. Even though we only discovered a small piece of Mexico, it left us craving to see more of this

“Almost every evening, on returning to the convent, the padrecito hurried into our room, with the greeting, “buenas noticias! otra ruinas!” “good news! more ruins!”(John Lloyd Stephens – Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan) *** The Maya world – Yucatan and northern Central America – is strewn

Neanderthalers are alive in Estonia. They sojourn on the banks of Lake Õdri amidst Karula National Park. A big family of buffoons occupied the whole RMK campsite. Magazines, garden chairs and badminton rackets were strewn all over the ground. They were noisy, ate with their mouths so far open that

What is the first thing that comes to your mind thinking about Belgium? Brussels, Brugge, Antwerp, Ghent? All charming cities with spectacular Grand Places and busy shopping streets. If all you have dreamt of is to have a city trip with museums, cute bookshops and lots of bars, you should

“Florida is the hottest city in the USA”, yaps a hobo with a flawed geographical knowledge. He rolls a cigarette and sits down on a bench. The rest of his gang follows his example. They all take out their shag tobacco and cheap supermarket lager and continue to cackle loudly.