mexico – Gato Goes Global

March 2022

14/04/202213/04/2022 by Marcia

So… was March better than February? Yes. But only slightly, as you can read below. At the beginning of March we went to Rio Lagartos where we saw some crocodiles in the mangroves near the ocean. Followed by a short trip to the yellow city Izamal with its Mayan pyramids … Read more

Las Aguas

05/04/202205/04/2022 by Marcia

We’ve visited Agua Azul and Agua Caliente, both in Chiapas. Agua Azul is a river, the Xanil, and a series of waterfalls where the water has an azure blue color. If it hasn’t been raining upstream that is. Which it had been doing for a couple of days so the water … Read more

Mayapan and Palenque

04/04/202203/04/2022 by Marcia

Both are ancient Mayan cities. Mayapan is situated in Yucatan, not to far away from Merida. It is considered the last great Maya capital, the last standing civilization before the Spanish arrived. It once had a population of about 12.000 people within its city walls. The city was founded around 1000 … Read more

February 2022

07/03/202207/03/2022 by Marcia

So… February sucked! Fortunately it is a short month, as is this blog. After all the problems with the shipping of the van, Kilian finally arrived back in Cancun on Wednesday the 23rd. Just in time to celebrate his birthday the next day. Although we spend most of that day … Read more

Shipping with RoRo

20/02/202219/02/2022 by Kilian

As can be read in a previous post, we decided to ship our camper van to Mexico using a RoRo ship, mainly because sea containers are in more demand because of increased trade during Covid, and because handling / clearing would be more swift compared to containers. Well, it did … Read more

January 2022

08/02/202202/02/2022 by Marcia

As you’ve already read in our December blog, we spend the first part of January driving to the harbor of Antwerp. We parked the van at a secure parking lot, from where it got driven on to the boat to Cancun at the 16th. We took the train to Tilburg. … Read more