Am a bit "slow" today as we had a school party last night in someone´s house. Was fun but I´m going to take today easy. My first 4 weeks seem to have gone by pretty quickly and I leave Antigua early on Monday morning. I´ve had a good time here and am a bit sad to leave the language school. However, this should be the start of "proper" travelling independently which I´m looking forward to.Since I last wrote I´...

Antibiotics are good. I managed to sort out the foodpoisoning and headed off to Lanquin for the weekend. I was with the same guys as last weekend - Ninke, Eva and Dan from the language school with Adolfo the guide. Lanquin is just about in the middle of Guatemala and took 6.5 hours in the pick-up truck. We got out of classes a bit early on Friday and set off at about 10AM. It was a great weekend. We hooked up with lots of other people who were travelling and s...

I've been to the beech for the weekend - El Paredon.It's about 2 hours in a minibus to get to the place. We arrived via a dirt track but managed to damage the bus in a big water-filled pothole The owner apparently wasn't to happy so we had to come back using a boat to get us to the main road. The time at the beech was great. I went with 3 others from the language school (Eva and Ninke from Holland (in my class), and Dan from LA) and we picked up a guy...

Dear All, I'm now down in Antigua, Guatemala and will be here for the next 4 weeks. I've settled in with my host family and have been looking around the town a bit. Have run into my first problem today - a lost bank card. I've no idea where it's gone but eventually managed to get it all cancelled over the phone this morning. Nothing apears to have been stolen so I guess i've dropped it/lost it somewhere. I'm at the end of the rainy season here and ...