{"id":966,"date":"2013-06-03T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/lets-retire-in-mexico\/?p=966"},"modified":"2014-09-20T23:50:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T04:50:01","slug":"what-to-do-on-rainy-days-in-playa-del-carmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/lets-retire-in-mexico\/2013\/06\/what-to-do-on-rainy-days-in-playa-del-carmen\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do on Rainy Days in Playa del Carmen &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to make a startling admission:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There really are rainy days in Playa del Carmen!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t many of them &#8211; I&#8217;d say over 300 days of the year are mostly sunshine. Even when there is rain, it lasts for a couple of hours at the most, and sometimes much less, and then Playa&#8217;s bright sun comes out again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But there really are a handful of days in which it rains all day. And in these cases, it usually rains hard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what to do on a rainy day in a place where life is out on the beach, a stroll out on Fifth Avenue or breakfast on a terrace?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, it&#8217;s hard to keep stuff around just for a few days a year when the rainy days keep you inside. These are my personal favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">browsing the web<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> &#8211; writing blogs of course (good internet connections around here)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">watching a moving<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> &#8211; there are good movie rentals in English, as well as 2 movie theaters, also mostly in English (with Spanish subtitles)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">bowling<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> &#8211; we just got our first bowling alley a couple of years ago!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">hanging out at the mall<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> &#8211; whether you like malls or not, you won&#8217;t find yourself spending much time at them just <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">because it&#8217;s so easy to be outside<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> &#8211; except on the rainy days! (One has underground parking)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">a game of chess<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> &#8211; you can do that outside too, but rainy days are especially good for it; my 8-year-old son has become quite the pro! There&#8217;s a very informal chess club that meets on Fridays at one of the malls.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">drink hot chocolate<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> &#8211; it never really gets cold enough for hot chocolate here, but I always feel like the hard rain makes it taste better<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">read a book<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> &#8211; it&#8217;s a good chance to catch up on some over-due reading<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So how will you spend your rainy days here? Well, to be perfectly honest, I wouldn&#8217;t worry too much about it, since it&#8217;s so seldom. But on the other, when it happens so seldom, you kind of appreciate it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>-by Thomas Lloyd<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/real-estate-books\/?web=Blog\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dashboard.lloyd-team.com\/1-images\/Banners\/Banner261-A.jpeg \" alt=\"Mexico Real Estate e-book\" width=\"464\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m going to make a startling admission: &nbsp; There really are rainy days in Playa del Carmen! &nbsp; There aren&rsquo;t many of them &ndash; I&rsquo;d say over 300 days of the year are mostly sunshine. 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