Around The World In 80 Waves

What I hadn’t told you about Acapulco was that about 1 car in 3 is a Volkwagen Beetle of the older variety.

All the local cabs are Beetles too, and I availed myself of their services many times whilst here because it was so cheap to do so. (That is once you have got past the silly Gringo quote you are given initially!)

They continued to be manufactured locally long after they stopped doing so in the rest of the world.

I am told they only stopped making them here in 2004. However every body tries to pimp up their cars and so many have neon lights attached as well as stereos that sound that they are bigger than that of the Olympic Stadium!

At times they are the only thing you see on the road, and I was considered quite the high roller in my Neuvo Vocho.

Several people wanted to buy it from me but I am not done with the little green surf machine just yet.