Long day! Left the house at 7:15am, got to the hotel in Holbox island at 2:15am the following morning (9:15pm local time).

Flight was fine, just long. Landed in 30 degree heat and found Arnaud waiting outside, with a whole load more travelling still to do, we did the obvious thing – bought a polystyrene cool box, a massive bag of ice, some beers and a huge bag of crisps. 

We had a mini bus to ourselves, so settled back, watched the sunset through the windows and caught up on life for the next 2 hours.

Annoyingly we missed a ferry by 3 minutes, the next one was in half an hour, just as well we had some cold beers to help kill the time.

The driver took a photo of us before he left, bit strange I thought, until Arnaud pointed out it was so he had proof that he’d fulfilled his part of the multi legged transfer. Yikes.

We sat at the front of the ferry, watching the distant lights of Holbox Island slowly get closer. A full moon on our right and a flock of seagulls swirling around the boat lent the whole scene a slightly surreal atmosphere.

There aren’t any cars on the island, but a golf buggy was waiting for us, we bounced down the dirt tracks to the hotel, were handed chilled towels, iced water and margaritas when we got there.

We didn’t waste any time, dumped our bags in the room and decamped over the road for some much needed sustenance.

Grilled octopus, tuna ceviche, salad, chips and cold Spanish wine, sorted.

Don’t know what time I got into bed, probably about 11, it was definitely time for a sleep!