Campeche: it’s f-ing HOT!
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Not sure I’ll make it thru a second day here. Very pretty colonial town but rather boring – so anticipation for the nightlife doesn’t really get one thru the miserable, oppressively hot afternoons. I got in around 2:30 yesterday and had to hide in my cavernous colonial room at El Parroquia until the sun went down. I looked for a breezy, shady spot to no avail.
After the sun set I walked around a lot – down to the malecon to see the gulf and people-watch. But the breeze bring wafts of poo. The water must be terribly polluted. I looked beautiful south of here. Almost carib-like. So I cut back into town to look for a place to have a drink and a snack. I must have wandered every block within a 5 block radius of the zocolo but unless I wanted cheap clothes, shoes or a cell phone I was out of luck. Then I hear music coming out of a small bar. It sounds like maybe bad karaoke, which can be amusing. I didn’t have much time to assess the place before I sat down and ordered a drink, but had I, I would have skeedattled. The karaoke was just a drunk couple accompanying the juke-box. The woman REALLY wanted to talk to me but Spanish is hard enough and her slurred version was impossible for me. I chugged my drink, paid and left just in time since several hombres were just getting up the guts to come console me for being alone. My friendly adioses were returned.
So I was relegated to the gazebo in the zocolo with all the other white people, mostly germans it seems. Here one can get an overpriced cocktail and watch absolutely nothing go on. Soooooo I chucked my second night here and headed up to merida, a good spot for several day-trips I’d like to do, like uxmal and celestun. Hopefully I have better luck here!!
Peggy Rehm