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so we've really enjoyed our time here and playing el carmen but we're actually leaving soon
okay i know what you guys are thinking we just spent all this time telling you how
amazing playa del carmen is and how much we love it here and now we're leaving we get it
i totally agree but at the moment it seems like the more places we visit
the more we want to see and it's a bit of an addictive feeling getting to a new place
uh
oh
i have to say the thing that i'd love to hear the most is our routine love being able to go
to yoga again life just feels really easy here and just easy to get around don't need a car
just sort of ticks all the boxes for us as nomads
so you know we've been here a long time when they know what drink order we're going to get
we've been in like six weeks yeah i've been coming here probably every second day and um
we don't even have to tell them what we want anymore so it's really good here in play del
carmen and ideally we would just keep our apartment and go see some stuff but it just
doesn't make sense to be paying for an apartment while we're traveling around going to other cities
and seeing other places so i think the plan for the next month is to pick four or five spots
and spend a few days or a week at each spot and really see what else there is
in mexico other cities maybe compare them to here i've got a couple of ideas but if you
have anywhere you want us to go or you think we should check out let us know down below in the
comments i guess our biggest issue at the moment is that going to different places has been become
addictive and when we first started this it was kind of our plan was to find somewhere for us to
call our home and that's still the plan we just don't know how we can pick somewhere without
seeing everywhere first so at the moment we're kind of happy just floating around
and just seeing where we end up and maybe along the way we'll find somewhere that we just can't
bring ourselves to leave and we'll just end up setting up shop there but until then i think we're
pretty happy just being nomads i think because that's the basis of our story for our channel
it can be a bit conflicting when we go places we don't necessarily see ourselves living but want to
experience before we do settle down maybe we'll never get the chance to go to that place again
i feel like this has almost turned into more like a bucket list or a bunch of things that lloyd
and i have always talked about doing but have never been able to and finally got the chance to
fulfill all these dreams and places that we've wanted to go and we fully want to take advantage
of it the whole point of being a digital nomad is that you can be a nomad you can move around
as much as you want and part of the thing we escaped was
having a rental apartment or a unit that we're paying for and couldn't justify going on long
trips because we're paying for another place so we don't have that now we have the freedom
to move around and it's always been like this for us we get to a place we love it and then
we get itchy feet after a couple of months and it might always be that way i don't know
all right it's now midday and we have not eaten yet i'm surprised we haven't gotten in an argument
i had promised lloyd that i was going to make him banana pancakes
today so i'm going to do that just going to stop at the corner shop and grab some
goes bananas
on a stranger
empires oh
as time goes by
sunshine
andy knows a lot of this it's the best breakfast because it tastes like regular pancakes but
it's like [ __ ] afterwards there's no sugar in it you don't get that like
crush in the middle of the day after eating healthy pancakes this is the breakfast i
make if i'm ever in trouble or want to ask for something it used to be like only on sundays
for a treat but yeah we just have them every day because why not every day's a sunday for us
uh
foreign
oh the view up here is so nice it's going to be really hard to leave this apartment we felt really
at home here and kind of fell in love with this neighborhood as you can see
our daily routine is pretty relaxed really no complaints i think we'd definitely be lying if
we didn't admit to really missing having a home base somewhere that you can keep your things
somewhere you can always come back to and i think that's sort of what we've been looking for and i
definitely think that playa del carmen is the one to beat for us at the moment um and i think
we will return here probably in the near future it's the most relaxed we've been anywhere we've
still got nearly three weeks here yeah so we still got time to see other things that are around us
nearby and still enjoy our routine that we have here but i'm really excited to see more places
in mexico this is we've really only scratched the surface and i think there's a lot more for us to
learn about this place and now that we feel sort of a little bit more comfortable here i
think we're going to enjoy it a lot more as well when we first came here we didn't know
what to expect because i don't you read a lot in the headlines about crime and
i mean a lot of people commented and dmness sort of saying like why are you going to mexico
like it's not a good place to go you have to go somewhere to experience it for yourself
to really get an opinion and we met a lot of locals and a lot of expats we definitely feel
like we made the right choice coming here we've been really happy here that's a big storm coming
so dark
so
what'd you say
i have no idea what to order there's so much different stuff here i know i'm nervous i
have to go against all my instincts to just order what i always would order which is tacos
no you're not gonna talk i'm not gonna
we just ordered so much food as usual this place looks awesome this is my favorite time of night
all the lights are just coming on right now temperature is perfect love it
you said this one
it's really hot it's habanero and i believe him because it's black
just a little bit yeah no i do a little bit
we've been here before let's wait a second
yeah it's hot it's funny tasting actually it's a really strong taste to it
didn't you say habanero's this is spicy chili in mexico in the world okay that's a baby yeah
and we did end up getting some tacos this isn't isn't too much food no this looks so good
so fresh it's delicious as well as uh venturing out and seeing more of
mexico you actually haven't seen any friends or family in 10 months yeah it's been a long time
yeah about 10 months since we left australia and i haven't seen my brother
my twin brother in three and a half years so we're planning a bit of a trip in the next two months
to visit some friends and family so we'll keep you posted on that it's exciting because this is
going to give us a chance to sort of venture into america and to places that we probably wouldn't
otherwise go to at the moment just because there are more expensive extravagant places to go
but uh we got to see some family and friends we're feeling a little bit isolated at the
moment yeah because we have to leave mexico anyway because of our visas we think we're
going to do a trip up to the united states and um maybe we'll keep it a surprise where we're going
to go we haven't planned everything yet but it's gonna be catching up with family and friends as
well as just an excuse to go to the united states really i love it over there i've been a few times
um me and mandy have been to california a couple of times and we really liked it yeah yeah it's
sort of like a a bucket list item i guess for us to be able to travel all of america but
for the time being it'll just be a trip for for now but maybe in the future we'll be able to do
more yeah i do want to do like a long road trip in the us i've always wanted to monday monday
oh