It was a bank holiday so the bus station in Xalapa was busier than usual. The next first class bus with free seats wasn't for another 2 hours so we thought we'd take a second class bus. Puebla was only a short distance away and the 2nd class bus was leaving right away. It was a bit cramped, but fine until it broke down 10 minutes into the journey and for a while we contributed massively to the horrendous Xalapa traffic. The driver asked for all the "caballeros" to get off and push it off the road. David jumped up to help and I stayed behind with all the other weak women. We stood at the side of the road for a while and listened to everyone's stories. "Ive got to be in work tomorrow", "This is the last time I'm travelling AU", "Last time this happened, the replacement bus was even worse".....our replacement bus was even worse and took AGES to arrange and get going. We stopped in a place called Perote for AGES and the journey ended up taking around 5 hours. Ugh!
The journey was interesting however. Lots to look at - fields, mountains and fun things for sale along the way. More pictures here http://picasaweb.google.com/jomynard/BusToPuebla
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