What a sight – fantastic! We are well into our 4th day of holidays and have really pushed ourselves hard to be where we are right now at this time of the day... 10:40 at the foot of the temple of doom – our adventure at the archaeological site of Chichen Itza begins.

First night sleeping in a new environment has never been easy for me. Sounds, squeeks and strange beddings make for turbulent first nights! Even though I had been totally exhausted, I still woke up several times that night to the sounds of cars, people and music.

It took us a long, long  time – but here we are, finally – Playa del Carmen, Mexico! After a 15 hour flight which took us from Amsterdam across the Atlantic to Newfoundland along the United States to Varadero, Cuba and finally onwards to Cancun, Mexico we arrived at our holiday destination at around 18:00.