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Another crack-of-dawn start to the day, thanks to the combination of Eloïse and the growing practice of going to bed monastically early. After breakfast and checking out, we drove to Cobá, another Mayan ruin site. Our visit here was curtailed … Continue reading →

Eloïse had us up and about around 07:00 this morning. We took advantage of the early hour to enjoy a leisurely breakfast, after which we fetched the buggy and walked the fifteen or so minutes to Chichén Itzá. We must … Continue reading →

After breakfast and allowing Eloïse a few minutes of playing on Plaza Grande, we left Mérida and headed for Uxmal. Uxmal is about an hour’s drive south-west of Mérida. It’s an impressive site with many large buildings in amazingly good … Continue reading →

I’m writing this on a seriously wavering wireless connection from our hotel room in Mérida, the capital of the Yucatán state. I had to manually configure the connection, as the DHCP server here appears to be dead. We arrived in … Continue reading →

2008; another year has elapsed. It was a fairly eventful one. We bought a house and we sold a house. We went to Iceland twice, and the UAE and Oman once. Sarah also spent time in the US over the … Continue reading →