This lagoon is on the landlocked side of the road and not fed by the Caribbean – a lunchtime stop for natural pineapple juice and coconut juice.A rare restaurant that we visited which features in the LP guide although only for drinks.This is a large town of around 250,000 people with wide roads and plenty of space – similar to Coatza which we visited weeks ago – and is the last settlement before we cross into Belize.The parts for our new bikes had been ordered a few days ago and sent to a hotel we were booked into via Amazon from Texas.Different frames for the panniers at the front to provide more stability.Extentions for the handlebars to provide a more comfortable riding position.One option was to take a water taxi from Chetumel to San Pedro on Ambergris Caye, however, that was quite expensive so we decided we would ride across the border and take another water taxi instead; more of that later.Scenes in Chetumel.Blimey. This was a saga. The night before we had arranged with someone in a large department store where they sell new bikes to save us two boxes for our bikes (we shall need these to fly home) and we would return the next morning to collect them. The taxis as shown were booked and we all went to the shop to collect…….nothing. The man had let us down. We went to another large store nearby with our two taxis in this out of town shopping area and they only sold small bikes for children and did not have the larger boxes we required. Olivia rang a shop, coincidentally called the Bike Box, and he had dozens of empty boxes which he was pleased to let us have for nothing.The taxi we travelled in was not large enough for the boxes and the driver organised the motor bike and trailer to carry them essentially from one end of town to the other – back to the hotel who will store them until we return from Belize when we shall require the same two taxis to transport us and the bikes to the local airport for a flight to Mexico City initially and our eventual return to Spain.A temporary departure from Mexico beckons before we return in three weeks.
Mexico and Belize 