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At the end of three amazing months in South America we had a brief rest from habla Español with a short spell in Orlando en-route to Mexico. The change-over was quite peculiar because many of the staff we spoke to were Latinos speaking English and often we’d start slipping Spanish words into our conversations.

After just two days of air-con, swimming pools, flushing toilet paper and all-you-can-eat buffets we were almost ready to call off the rest of our backpacking trip and relocate to International Drive. Since we were still very much on a backpacker’s budget we rode the bus around town, made sure every trip to the all-you-can-eats was on an empty stomach and abstained from the many theme parks. We did treat ourselves to a great night of blues at B.B. King’s before flying out to Cancun, slightly worried how we’d re-adapt to a life of lumpy pillows and baño compartido.