Awake at 4.30. Well that’s much better isn’t it.
Rather than the buffet breakfast we headed to the Coffee shop around 7. Coffee and a Danish each.
Mexico appears to have bigger lizards than Florida.
We loved seeing these guys almost every day too.
This will get repetitive really quickly as we headed to the beach again but for variety we chose some beds a little closer to the shore. That’s when we realised that all this seaweed could produce the odd waft of an unpleasant smell.
With no breakfast to speak of we were hungry nice and early so we walked up to the Sea Side Grill restaurant by the pool at 11.45.
I had the Toast Trio, a trip to the salad bar and Fish Tacos. I would never normally order that but when it’s “free” I get a little more daring.
Louise had a goat’s cheese stuffed chicken thing.
Beer for me and a Margarita for Louise.
Back to the beach again. We considered doing a pool for the afternoon but there were no beds with shade available which is a non-negotiable for me.
Reading and resting followed.
Towards the end of the day I went for a stroll up the beach then we went back to the room around 5.25.
Once there we went into the swim up pool for the first time. Our turn down service person came and made our room all delightful and ready for the evening and honestly this ritual became a real highlight of the trip.
We didn’t make it out for dinner till 8.30. Bordeaux was our choice tonight. French of course.
French onion and cauliflower soup for starters.
But only after our bousches had been amused.
Small but lovely.
Steak for us both.
That was fruit tart thing and these, well you know what they are…
We stopped at the lobby bar for one drink and watched the band.
Bed at 10.30 still feeling jet laggy.
Till the next time……
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what a lovely day
When we went to the Riviera Maya Akumal, we had a resident lizard that lived in the foliage by the swimming pool. S/he was the size of a medium sized dog and loved to just sit by the side of the pool and watch us all in the water. S/he let us get right up to it and have a chat in lizardese 🥹