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[cwc]

I would think you could find a lot better things to bring rather than sheets. Mexico has a thriving textile industry.
You will want books in English. Sheets are everywhere, books aren't.
Just my opinion.

[samizinha]

Again, it depends on the quality that you want. The reasonably priced (less than $200 peso) sheets here are 120 thread count and actually bothered my skin because they were stiff, no matter how many times I washed them. I bought a great set of sheets at Ikea for about $15, which was a much better deal than the $400 I paid at Sears for decent sheets in Mexico.
Sheet size totally depends. I have mostly seen twin beds, but sometimes see "matrimonial" beds in rental apartments. These beds seem a bit smaller than queen size to me, but I could be wrong.

[magpie]

I brought sheets and was VERY glad I did as they ones provided with the apartment were rough and scratchy or so thin and "pilled" that it felt like sleeping on sand. Matrimonial beds are what Americans refer to as "double" or "standard"--a size smaller than queen.

As to books, you can find so many online now. Download them to read or get the audio version and listen to them--we did this a lot and never ran out of material. PLUS, you don't have any heavy books to lug around!

[Ben Round de Bloc]

[cwc]

I have to admit that I haven't slept in a bed in 8 years, don't own one.

However, about books, I think it is worth a few extra pounds, maybe 10, to have some favorite books. If you are "lugging" your books, something is wrong. Computerized books don't give me the same satisfaction. Even printed and bound with plastic spirals, they lack something. Reading a book is more than a transfer of information. It is an experience.

[samizinha]

Hey cwc,
So, I have to ask, what do you sleep in then? A hammack? Saludos

[cwc]

I came in my sailboat, so I slept in my bunk at Isla Mujeres for about a year. Once I sold the boat, I started to sleep in a hammock. It took about three nights to get used to it. Now I do just about everything in it. I am truly worried that I won't be able to sleep in a bed on my visit planned this July.

[danielita]

Interesting, I was wondering about sleeping in a hammock rather than a traditional bed, but there is a part of me that is afraid of falling out....

Also, cwc, did you find your back was sore when you first started sleeping in one?

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[MELEE]

You can't fall out of a Mexican hammock, unless you're trying to get out of it after too much mescal, or you've bought one that is two small for the situation. They come in sizes from baby to family! Go for the biggest one you can afford, for me, to much isn't overkill.
Where I live its really too cold to sleep in hammocks most of the year, but we have one out back and my girls napped in one during their first year.

I was going to say cwc doesn't understand about the sheets 'cause he's a man.

[Ben Round de Bloc]

[M@tt]

i have a question. when you sleep in a hammock, do you do it on your back? is it possible in a hammock on your side?? also, do you use a pillow?
thanks

i didn't know anything about sheets until my mom let me borrow some with a really high thread count. i was also borrowing a queen size bed from my parents at that time, and it was an amazing combination. before i had always been in a twin bed with pretty average sheets. here in mexico i have a queen size bed, very nice sheets, and one of those ....pedic foam mattress toppers, and it's really difficult to get out of bed in the morning.
i still feel pretty manly.

[samizinha]

I remembered something else that I stocked up on for Mexico- iron pills and vitamins. I don�t eat red meat (a travesty, I know) so I take iron pills as suplements... but here it costs aproximately $120 pesos for a little package of horse pills. I brought about 300 pills from home for the same price.

[Guy Courchesne]

[M@tt]

it also seems like sex in a hammock would be much more difficult than in a bed. i'm afraid to put this in direct question form though.

[Ben Round de Bloc]