Tulum mornings
We stayed with friends at Residencia Gorila in Tulum, a creative art collective that invites artists and good vibes from all over the world to share life and ideas. The Gorila rooftop is the perfect spot for moon gazing, and the surrounding areas are perfect for beach play and breakfast love. Together with the dancing, the food and the arts – Tulum provides everything that a life loving spirit desires.
Tulum stories: The moon is full and life is yours to enjoy, now come – dance and love.
We found our way back to Tulum where the moonlight was telling a million stories and the beach embraced us in all of its warmth and beautiful vibes. We were invited to stay with friends and joined them for a party on the beach, under the full moon, under the palm trees and with what happened to be one of my long time DJ crushes, Nightmares on Wax. We played, we loved, we danced and we welcomed the sun as it came up in the morning.
Life is a Cabaret – Last night in Playa del Carmen
New friends, wine, a boat, and yet another beautiful sunset…
We hopped over to Isla Mujeres where we spent the day on the beach and met a crowd of New Yorkers who insisted that we shouldn’t be taking the ferry back to Cancun – but join them on their catamaran instead. So we did. And had a beautiful afternoon on deck, dancing, playing, having drinks and swimming as the sun was setting and the moon came up. All as beautifully random as an afternoon on a boat can be with a big group of happy people. Thanks guys!
Counting down to 2015, Celebrating New Year’s Eve in Mexico.
We ended the year on a beach in Cancun. An electronic music concert with David Guetta and his buddies who delivered a spectacular show – and loads of happy people, yet not too crammed, not too loud, and not too much in your face – we had enough space to dance around, enough hearing left to be able to talk to people, and enough energy and happiness to dance all of our make-up off when it started to rain. It was a great night, one hundred per cent positive, and I couldn’t have been happier and more grateful to spend it with two people who had made their way all the way to another continent to dance through the night and count down to 2015 with me. So much love, thank you darlings!
We continued to another beach once the party started dying out, had some food, danced a bit on the street and went home just as the sun was starting to make its way up. I was happy. A bit worried about 2015, but very happy.
Oh, and cameras were forbidden in the concert, so please excuse the quality of what is to come. Don’t miss the videos, though – one was filmed by a production company and features a split second of our dance moves at 2:24, and the other one is from my phone and captures the moment when the rain fell. I think our shared happiness can be felt through both the shouting and the music, that rain couldn’t have come at a better moment.
Cancun beach fun
Playa del Carmen is for Dancing, and surprise Cabaret.
We made our way up from Tulum to Playa del Carmen, where we stayed in an Airbnb apartment close to the beach and went out dancing at Coco Bongo, a very interesting nightclub experience that combines cabaret shows with club music, acrobatics, tequila shots and dancing in a beautiful venue. In one night, we saw super talented impersonators copy the exact live performances of LMFAO, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Daft Punk and Beyoncé, and movie scenes from The Mask, Spiderman and TRON with Cirque du Soleil acrobats hanging from the high ceiling and confetti and glowsticks all over the place. Quite a ride considering that we had zero expectations and didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into when a promoter on the street put courtesy bracelets on our wrists and literally pushed us in through the door, Coco Bongo wasn’t a night club, it was a very cool show that we suddenly were in the middle of. Very cool.
Apart from Coco Bongo, we also danced at Santanera and Raices, and hung out on the very nice beplaya rooftop.. and had some food, of course.
Christmas on the beach – thank you, Tulum!
After our weekend on Caye Caulker, Avina and I took Suz and made our way up north, across the border to Mexico, to my favourite dreamly little hippie paradise get-away in Mexico – Tulum.
We spent Christmas on the beach and crashed a random Christmas party for staff at Waye, my favourite bar in Tulum. We also had two mind blowing dinners at Casa Banana, and breakfast from heaven in La Zebra. Food was great, people were wonderful, and everything was really nice about the jungle beach town. Before leaving we also paid a quick visit to the Tulum ruins, but it was raining and we didn’t see much apart from a poor little lion baby that tourists were paying to take pictures with.
I love Tulum, Avina loved Tulum, and Christmas couldn’t have been spent in a more awesome way. The only thing missing were our loved one’s – but as we said, we wished they had been there with us – not that we had been anywhere else. Christmas on the beach is the best way to do it, hands down.
Avina on CC island
My sister-ish Avina left the building the other day, and what’s left of her and our one month of adventures in Belize and Mexico are memories and a million photos, videos and mosquito bites. It was absolutely wonderful having her here, and I couldn’t be happier that I officially need a vacation after my rather intense Christmas “vacation”.
I will be sharing the photos gradually, and here’s the first batch from the first couple of days that Avina was here – the first thing we did was of course to take the boat over to Caye Caulker, dive and dance. Luc was with us the first days, and then hopped on a flight to celebrate Christmas on another island – so we continued on our own.
Enjoy!
