Playa del Carmen

It is hot hot hot! I had a few hours sleep at the hotel last night but not enough to recover my sleep. The bar music didn't finish till 2am. I really hope the new hotel is better. I have been walking the streets for the past 4 hours and I am beyond knackered. I had to wait till 3pm to check in. I am having some down time and trying to cool off under the air conditioner unit.
First impressions of Mexico is hot, humid but the people are overall friendly. It is certainly a tourist mecca with hundreds of shops lining the main road. Just off it are the beaches which are like an ants nest of heaving bodies all vying for space on the sand. The locals are all vying for your attention, all wanting you to enter their shop. Hey chiquita! Hey lady, come over here and I will show you something you have never seen before... uh, no thanks. Also, kind of sounds like a proposition haha. The streets are clean and there is a heavy police presence on the streets which isnt so much intimadating as it is comforting.
I had fajitas for lunch. I was really looking forward to trying some mexican food and my first encounter was a bit of a let down. The handmade soft tacos were like eating stale taco and the sauce (I think itwas mole) was bland and kind of tasteless. The actual chicken and veg were nice but lacked flavour or spice. There is a lot of italian restaurants and icecream palours. Yum!
In the evening I met up with the Gadventures tour guide and group. The guide is called Chris and he is a very friendly person. This is his last tour before he moves to Chile. I also met up with my room mate Sophie. She is from the UK, but has travelled a lot due to her father's job in the military. She is easy to get on with and has a great sense of humour. I think I won't mind sharing a room with her.
As a group we headed down to the beach where we introduced ourselves and then we headed for a walk out to a little restaurant that sold Mexican food. It was very good eating. Earlier in the day I had watched people eating guacamole and I was all about that, so that first thing I ordered was that. Avadados must grow like weeds here. They will mash up two or three for a meal. They serve it with corn chips. It was the yummiest food of the day, followed up by the chicken quasadillas which were amazin.I don't know what kind of cheese they use but it is lovely - not greasy at all. Sort of like goat or buffalo cheese... dunno but I wasn't poorly after eating them which means more quasadellas with cheese for me!