All packed and ready to go

We have jiggled our luggage around and seem to be within our kilos - in fact we have not  lost anything and gained only a few things so we should be ok.  It seems sad to be getting out the old fleeces again ready for home.  Arthur has been down for a swim in the surf and cycled up to town but the lazy ones amongst us have been chatting over a leisurely breakfast and having our final telling off from our motherly hostess Chelo who I thought was going to put Arthur up for public flogging when he pushed his bike too close to the breakfast table on his way to the beach - all hell broke loose and a lot of feathers had to be unruffled!  But, she does look after us well - calls us her little soles or corazones when she clucks around checking our welfare - which is a lot better than the cooking class lady last night who was a complete rip off for 70 dollars US a piece! - they only got onion and tomato salad, a couple of moles and a bit of cheese I think followed by a thimble full of mezcal and a dollop of rice pud!

John and I had the better deal last night although it started badly when we walked miles to the other end of town to the recommended fish restaurant to find it shut - then it poured down - but luckily we fell by chance into the place next door - another fish restaurant where we had tacos most of which were too hot for us, a nice fishy soup followed by ceviche or prawn salad and for mains John had fish fillet and I had delicious garlic prawns washed down with yet another piña colada.  About £8 each.  We got a taxi home and he didn't overcharge us - of course nobody would dare overcharge Chelo's guests because she will know their mothers and grandmothers and the mafia would sort them out!

Fortunately the sky is a little cloudy so we are not too uncomfortable putting our socks and trainers back on for the long journey home.  We have had to sleep with earplugs in here due to the huge double American style trucks racing past our rooms almost all day and night - but we were very well placed for the ruins of Tulum and the beautiful beach and only 1km from the town.