Our Long Weekend in Mexico City

I finally found some time to write the trip report from our recent stay in Mexico City. Once I started typing I couldnt stop so sorry it’s so long. So here goes:

SATURDAY

We left the house around 7:45 for the short walk to the place where we bought our flight tickets ($250 pp) as that is where our included airport transfer was departing. Once at the airport the flight was delayed by about an hour but eventually we were on our way. It seemed strange to be heading in a different direction to our usual airport departures, we flew over Merida and out across the Gulf. Over the sea for about an hour before once again crossing a very different coastline on our approach to Mexico City for a total flight time of 2 hours.

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City Beach Club, Cancun - Review

The City Beach Club was one of the last establishments to recover after the hurricane. With reopening in Sept 2006 it is clear that they have moved after a different clientele and are definitely more upscale than before.

Previously they catered for locals and tourists looking to party with regular bikini contests and even a surfing simulator.

Located at the rear of The City nightclub, the beach club caters for the well to do local and offers a menu devoid of the ubiquitous hamburger and fries. A group of expats living here decided to get together and have a family day out there.

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Scorpion Surprise

Hmm, two consecutive bug posts. Honestly, Cancun is not full of bugs and creepy crawlies but this is the tropics after all. We’ve lived here over two years now and seen one scorpion before, at someone elses house. Today was the first time we found one at our house. Jannet was collecting in a pile of laundry from outside the house on the patio where our washing machine is. The clothes had been sitting in the washbasket for several hours.As she sorted through the clothes it ran up her arm, fell off and into the pile of clothes, where it quickly buried itself.

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