Breakfast was superb, set on the second floor of the hotel with a view of the sea there was a wonderful multichoice buffet with everything that you could possibly want :juices, cereals, freshly cut fruit, egg, bacon, sausage, beans, toast, jam, yoghurts, toppings - they even cooked waffles and fresh eggs to order in any style...have I left anything out??
With our identifying pink wristbands we tried hard not to let the side down by leaving food marks or coffee droplets on the pristine white linen - if the wrist bands weren't enough, the soiled linen would be a dead giveaway that we were from the 'other', more modest, hotel!!
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| View from two floors up - despite saying "Sit and stay!!" by the time I got up to the balcony to take this picture William had moved from the table! |
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| This view is from the balcony on the first floor of the Casa Mexicana hotel which is right in the centre of downtown having a wonderful seafront vista. Punta Langosta is behind me, ships are in for the day and Cozumel is awash with tourists. |
After breakfast we take a walk through the pedestrianized downtown mall then along the seafront with a warm breeze blowing. Yesterday's ships have departed but their spaces have been taken up by another two of equal size and with four more down at the other International piers.......Cozumel is alive and buzzing.
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| Downtown shopping area recently upgraded is very attractive |
Roads are busy with cars, motorcycles, horse & carriages, taxis line up waiting for their next fare. Clumps of tourists everywhere some studying their maps, others piling into small tour buses, some just sitting on the sea wall watching life go by. There's the smell of food being cooked, the sound of people haggling prices for their purchases, the ferry blasts it horn before leaving the dock and we are just caught up in the most amazing human liquidizer.
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| Crowds ease as we get a little more out of town. The sea wall has seating all the way along its entire length - William thought he'd test out how comfortable it can be, To the right of William, building work is in full force behind the awnings laying new paving which will extend the pedestrianised town centre and restaurant district. |
The beaches that run the length of downtown and beyond in both directions are not sandy so there is no great opportunity to walk the beaches unless you go a long way south to the mega hotel zone, which we did not do.
The town beaches are limestone rock right up to the seawall, very uneven and peppered with mansize holes that were easy to fall into. Any space on the beach was taken up by the dozens of local fishing boats who returned stacked with fresh fish at the end of the day.
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| Guess who?? from time to time William would go missing but I knew he'd never be far away from the boats |
THEN LOOK WHAT WE FOUND!!
Life's full of coincidence - some think it's an omen for the next event, others poo-poo the whole idea and dismiss it - however, what do you make of the following - press the full screen icon so that you don't miss a thing!
We haven't got a clue who Julian is but perhaps Alexia is about to link hulls and become a catamaran.
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| Truly, if you can't find it here................................... |
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| ..............it doesn't exist!! |
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