'Welcome to Caye Caulker - Paradise'. Music to my ears. A skinny island a couple of kilometres long, free from cars and their fumes and with transport instead taking the form of golf carts and rickety bikes, CC was hit by a hurricane in the sixties, leaving a split which now conveniently provides the perfect place for ignoring all sunbathing advice, and catching some serious rays. And, if less inclined to laziness, hitting bright blue water with your snorkel o...

I knew I was going to like this Caribbean country the moment I read the Lonely Planet introduction: 'This tiny nation is so laid back it's almost comatose.' So it might not come as a great surprise then that upon my arrival in this laid back land, my attitude towards my blog became pretty immediately Belizean too, ie. it might take 'a while'. But this made it the perfect place for our travelling team of four to wind down from over twelve days of manic, rather e...