Posts Tagged ‘Alexandra Allover’
How Tulum helped me become a water rat (and a PADI open water diver) ☀️🤿💦
How I became a PADI open water diver in Tulum: “Going to the beach” for me so far meant chilling on the beach and looking at the water. Not necessarily going inside, and I always had many good reasons for it: “My eyes burn from the salt water.” “I don’t want my hair to…
Read MoreDon’t fall for these tourist scams in Playa del Carmen❗️🇲🇽
Playa del Carmen is one of the most popular and touristy towns on Mexico’s Caribbean shoreline. If you enjoy a lively town, you will love it there. But don‘t fall for these common tourist scams! I can sum up our stay in Playa del Carmen in three major points: Aggravating taxi drivers (they…
Read MoreThe island of Cozumel during the hurricane 🇲🇽
Oh boy – what a week! We spent the last couple of nights on Cozumel, an island off the coast of Playa del Carmen. And since we’re now digging the island life, visiting another island seemed like a good idea.😁 Cozumel is bigger than the last island we stayed on (Isla Mujeres), so…
Read MoreThe hardship of trying to find a place to stay in the Caribbean 🇲🇽
As announced in my last post, we were going to move from the west coast of Mexico to the Caribbean coast, with first stop in Cancun. Long story short, we did not like Cancun 1. 😆🤷🏻♀️ The crappiest hotel in the Caribbean ? Not only did our hotel overbook and we had…
Read MoreOur first month in Mexico (Digital Nomads in Puerto Vallarta) 🇲🇽🏝☀️
After one month of residing in the Mexican state of Jalisco, we decided to move on. What we’ve experienced in the last four weeks was both exciting, insightful and heartbreaking (but maybe that’s just me). Welcome to Puerto Vallarta! Our friends Kim and Ole left us and went back to Europe. One of them…
Read MoreWaterfall hike to El Nogalito, Puerto Vallarta, without guide 🦎💦
Jungle vibes on the hike to El Nogalito Waterfall 💦🦎 2020 is an interesting year to travel abroad. We moved to Mexico three weeks ago and we got to experience what it is like to travel without crowds of tourists. Currently in Puerto Vallarta we discovered that there is a trail through the…
Read MoreMexican beach life ☀️🏝
Hola from the beach, amigos! 🇲🇽 2 weeks in… and so far we’ve stayed in 5 different towns. After Mexico City we moved to Puerto Vallarta, then Sayulita, San Pancho, Corral del Risco and now… back to Puerto Vallarta (PV)! ☀️ Why are we back here? I’ll tell you in a second. Before…
Read MoreMexico City here we come! 🇲🇽
As some of you know, we’ve been dreaming about this for a while. Times like these didn’t make it easier but still not impossible. We arrived safely and have enjoyed a couple of days in beautiful Mexico City. At 2250 m (7380 ft) above sea level it took us a day or so to…
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