San Pedro, a wee town by a large lake. Four of us rocked up to this place for Spanish lessons at dirt cheap prices. We are talking £5.20 for three hours of private lessons. My kind of town. Four lessons in and there is un poco espanol en mi cabeza. Activities so far have been walking up San Pedro volcan (approx 1600m from the base) in three hours. It turns out I'm very unfit. And canoeing today in the lake. ############################## Eight days into les...

Antigua is a small town at the base of three volcanos. It used to be the capital but after realising it's susceptibility to complete wipe out - they then made Guat city the capital. It has a grid system with a central park and a few key structures (arches, churches etc) so it SHOULD be fairly easy to find your way around. The buildings are, well the photos will be a better job at describing this than I can ever manage. Kim and I went up a volcano on her last d...

After two days I would like to add an extra note to big this place up. So far the landscape has been amazing, so green with big booming mountains everywhere. The people don't speak English which makes it a challenge, and a welcomed one, and is refreshing to see, I mean hear. The women are tiny and cute and when in the traditional dress look bloody amazing. There seems to be a standard bright patterned skirt as standard with a top I would compare with a strap t...

We crept into the mouth of the river last night and watched walls of trees grow high. It was all so lush after 6 days at sea. We eventually anchored near a pier when it was too dark to go further. Guy cooked more lobster and went to bed. There was so much to listen to around us, lots of fish jumping in the river, birds and things like crickets but a hell of a lot bigger in the trees. Next morning up the river we went, through another manatee park, past the pre...