Well, if I be honest, I am still feeling slightly jet lagged. Over the weekend I still couldn't get my head round the time difference.

Both Saturday and Sunday, I woke up at 11.50 ish. Saturday was because the phone rang and Sunday, I got up because I needed to have a turn-out. This is quite unlike me, as I like to wake up fairly early on weekend's so that I don't waste any rare time off work.

Anyway, Mexico. I had a great time.

Most of our time was spent at the resort. We stayed at the Grand Sirenis Hotel, which is a 5 star resort on the coast of the Riviera Maya.

Within the resort, there was several ala carte restaurants – including a Mexican (naturally), an Italian, Japanese and a steak house, so we never went hungry. There were several swimming pools (including 2 pool bars), a beach, a coffee house and an ice cream parlour (I think that's where I got my moneys worth on the all inclusive!).

We went on 3 excursions in total.

The first was a trip to Coba and Tulum. Coba is a large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. I have to say I quite liked Coba, even though it was úber hot! At the end of the tour, was the Nohoch Mul pyramid, the only pyramid in Mexico that you are allowed to climb (at least that is what the guide said).

Never being the one to turn down a challenge, I opted to climb the pyramid. I have to say once I got about half way, I instantly began to regret my decision. I sat down for a rest and thought to myself, “I've come all this way across the planet and if I don't get to the top of this thing, I will regret it for the rest of my life”. So once my breath and energy returned, I continued my hike up the ruin. Once I got to the top, my persistence paid off and I was treated to an amazing view.

We then headed to Tulum. Tulum is the site of a Pre-Columbian Maya walled city serving as a major port for Coba. This place was pretty amazing. What struck me was that for the most part, the structures were quite small, which leads me to believe that the Mayans must have been a small race (having said that, the locals were quite small too).

A couple of days later, we went to Chichen-Itza. It took a good 3 hours to get there and once we arrived, the weather took a turn for the worse. As we were about to go into the site, there were various street vendors selling local crafts and what not. The guide advised us not to purchase anything from them because they didn't have the license to do so and it was against the law.

A couple of minutes later, there was a clap of thunder and it started to chuck it down. Then, much to our dismay, the local vendors then tried to sell us water proofs! What made it worse was that the guide continued as if nothing was wrong and nothing out of the ordinary was happening, which, fair enough, to him it wasn't. But to us, we are not used to dramatic weather changes. I know in the UK it rains like, what, 90% of the year (and that 10% is when we are told there is a drought), but that's just drizzle. This was rain and then some! And we were all dressed in our summmer clothes...

He then went on about the numerical system that the Mayans would use, which is all very interesting, but to be honest, I just wanted to see the ruins and the pyramids and take photographs. I can look up all the trivia on the internet if need be.

Never the less, despite the hapless guide and the crap weather, Chichen-Itza is lovely place that is well worth visiting.

Our third trip was to the water park of Xel-Ha, which is built around this amazing blue lagoon.

Since Holly can't swim properly (she doesn't like to go out of her depth), she found this all a bit boring. I on the other hand, loved it!

I hired some snorkelling gear and went straight in. At first it was all a bit over whelming, but once I got used to it I was in my element. All these different coloured fish come up to you and swim by you.

Apparently there was a sting-ray in there somewhere, but I couldn't find him. I did find this big blue bugger (about a meter in length) and followed him for a bit though. I found this such a mad experience, that I went snorkelling back at the beach next to the hotel (The Riviera Maya has the 2nd biggest Coral Reef in the world).

All in all, I had a great time and I really wish I was back there now.

To see the photos, click here .