The word travel is derived from the French word 'travail' (meaning work or torture). This word was in turn derived from tha Latin word tripalium, a three staked instrument of torture. Read on. We went in for repairs in the coastal town of Tela. Mental repairs. Repairs to our sanity. From here, we made tracks for the Bay Islands, an hour off the Honduran coast in the Caribbean. Our catamaran journey was... well, terrifying. The swell had us rocking violently fro...

Boarding a 38' launch in a tiny southern town in Belize bound for Honduras, we were ill prepared for the 'adventure' that lie ahead. A dozen or so Westerners expectantly took their pews and looked forward to a 2 hour crossing across the bay to our destination. Huh. We rode through mangroves to a dock where we completed immigration formalities before continuing. Here the fun and games started. Two and a half hours passed before we were stamped out of Belize - a co...