Viva Mexico!

From Tulum we arrived in Playa del Carmen after only 1hour drive:-)
We got out of the bus and the 'global so-called-civilization' hit our face violently!
We booked the hotel via internet the day before coming to Playa and we really got a good deal since the place is right a block from 5Avenida (the strip of Playa) and it's really a nice place, run by italian.
Italian seems to be everywhere. In Tulum the Hemingway cabañas was run by Paola, and other cabañas by other italians!
By the way. Playa is just like Riccione and Rimini on the Adriatic Riviera. A place to buy and eat and eat and drink and buy and dance and eat and drink and have fun.
This morning we went to the beach and it was cool. Of course we had to forget the feeling of freedom we got used in Tulum, where the only shadow was that of a palm and the only worry was the cocunut shaking dangerously over our heads.
Here is all very Cool, Hip, In, Trendy, Sophisticated.... and so on.
We had a group of rich italian next to us. All dark tanned and with Giorgio Armani and Dolce e Gabbana swimsuits. The men were way too trendy... trying to copy Berlusconi in shapes and attitudes; women too old to expose their 'nudities' to the world but too vain to cover them....
Poor guys.
Playa looks like an American city. Americans are everywhere, everybody speaks english and there are 2 Starbucks on the main road.

By the way, we decided to give ourselves a little last present before going back home.... tomorrow we'll reach Holbox, a small, lonely island north of Cancun with nothing else than a place to stay and the beach and the birds and the shells.
Italo (an italian guy working in Tulum) told us of how he felt in love with that island, and we decided to go. We already called another italian guy (and then we talk of The Family!!!) and we booked this room for our last 2 mexican nights!
We're looking forward it.
We'll miss this country!
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