Welcome to this blog post that captures some more highlights from our 2023 Winter in Uaymitun!
I must say, we’ve had a very temperate January so far… much warmer and fewer El Nortés than previous years!
We’ve been here about 3 weeks, so it was time for haircuts! Off we went to Gaby’s in Chicxulub. Again, she said she couldn’t take some off the sides and put it on top!
George’s daughter, Monica and granddaughter, Carolin, have been down for a visit for a couple of weeks. The other day they were joined by George’s son Mike.
As I mentioned in our previous post, Pat & Bob are back in Mérida this winter and we went in to visit them in their new house on Calle 39 x 62A y 64. It was great to catch up and spend a wonderful afternoon with them.
Casa Lilli
We visited another of our favs this week, Elio al Mare!
While Elio, himself, has moved on to other ventures, the name and most of the menu lives on! I’ve looked through all my posts over the years and never did take a pic of the old building before it was razed, so the best I can find was via Google Maps Street View from 2009.
For fun, I’ve included Street View pics from then and now to show the changes to the street! Back then, the pavement ended a few streets from Elio’s and the sand and stone street was prone to dangerous pointy bits everywhere. Rumour had it was that the owners of the houses refused to allow it to be paved to ensure the traffic was slow!
We reserved a table on the patio overlooking the Gulf and we weren’t disappointed! We ordered our favourite dishes, Chicken Parmesan and Fettuccini “Modo Mio”! We loved the old plaster board menu, in Italian, and knew exactly what to order. Now, they’ve been replaced and we were given one in English and it took quite awhile to find what they now call our dishes!
When we placed our dinner orders, we had asked about whether they still had their Chocolate Lava Cake! By the time we’d finished our mains, we thought we’d just have Cappuccino Mayas (with Xtabentún) instead, but our waiter proudly brought the Lava Cake shortly after delivering our Cappuccinos! Oh, well! We took one for the team! Yumm!
Last year in my blog, I mentioned the amount of new development and construction taking place down here.
Just in our local stretch of the Costera, there are many such projects underway. Courtesy of Google “Street View” which allows one to view the same stretch of road from previous years, I’ve included before and after pics!
At Km 16.2, there was an older house called Mena that has been torn down and a massive new house is still under construction.
Just four houses to our East, what was once an empty field, is now a 8 bedroom house with an elevator and underground parking!
And, of course, there was the development at the next door house, with the addition of a new house for her son and a casita for the valedor!
Which brings us to our house, now called Mack’s. Due to the construction of the two buildings on the property next door, the owners of our house created a private entrance to the beach house and had a decorative wall put in place between the two properties. The final touch is the new sign!
Hmmm… remember my comment about the weather at the beginning of this post? Well, I guess it’s payback time… 3 days of clouds and 45Km/h winds with gusts to 60Km/h!
After 3 days of strong winds, it was a certainty that the beach would suffer! I had some work to do!
Well, I think I’ll close out this blog for now! The next one will highlight some stuff we haven’t done yet and places we haven’t seen yet!
Cheers!
Love to all,
Doug & Elaine
