December heat

The weather continues to be really really good! I am now in Veracruz which is a port city on the gulf of Mexico. Although there are beaches a bit further along, I am going to wait untill Wednesday for all that when I get to Cancun. Veracruz has played an important part in Mexico´s history and present and this afternoon I will be seeing the sights which include a tribute to those who died fighting Cortes and the Spanish, should be interesting hopefully. There is yet another catherdral here, Mexico seems to be turning into Europe, or maybe its just the places I have been going to.

I have found a nice little hotel which is just a 2 minute walk from the Zocolo, its actually half the price of the only hostel in town which is something I wasn´t going to say no to! My full day in Puebla was an interesting one, after seeing the sights and getting back to the hostel I felt annoyed with myself that i´d not had a torta, taco or corona since I entered the country, so I went out and had a few Coronas and 3 massive pork tortas. Feeling stuffed I headed back and got speaking to a British guy (who had just done 6 months in South America himself and gave me some useful tips) and an Italian, both were hungary and after a week of empty dorms and hotel rooms I needed the interaction so we went to this dodgy looking cafe and I had a taco which was called the gringa! and another couple of Coronas.

I booked my accomodation for christmas as I thought it would be best to. I´ll be in Antigua, Guatemala which is kind of a coincidence but it is supposed to be amazing at christmas so I am looking forward to that. Also decided to take a bit of a different route through El Salvador and Honduras as originally planned and will post it when I have confirmed it. Oh and finally some women on the bus, if you can picture what the Mexican version of desperate housewives would be like then you´ve got the picture, very odd.