For our first weekend together in over 7 months Mum and I took a little holiday (within the big holiday) to Copan Ruinas, a small (but well known) village in the Honduran mountains on the border with Guatemala. After spending the morning at school, where Mum read a story about ducks to my children which prompted us to receive many pictures of ducks, we got the first Headman Alas bus out of Tela. Now I'm afraid I am going to have to go slightly off topic to tel...

So on Thursday, for the second time in my life, I spent a ridiculously long (4hours!!), bumpy bus journey sitting on a plastic stool in the central isle of a bus. Yes, that has happened to me twice…the first time being in Albania!! Needless to say it was not the most comfortable start to the holidays. :D YES, the holidays have finally begun!! I am currently in Copan, the only Mayan site in Honduras, because it is (of course) the end of the world…and where ...