Had a very leisurely carribean morning, with a dip in the sea followed by breakfast followed by sitting about doing not a lot. Things quickly changed when after catching boat to the mainland and Belize city, found out the bus for which we had been sold a ticket (to Flores in Guatemala) didn't actually exist. Unfazed (well, ok, a bit miffed), 2 short taxis, 2 local belizian buses, 1 11-hour Guatemalan overnight bus (no not a relatively nice one for tourists), and a chicken bus later, we were in Antigua, Guatemala. Easy. Well, other than the fact we had to negotiate with the Guatemalan bus driver on more than one occasion to take us further without payment until we found a working ATM, other than being in fear of my bag rolling out the open door of the bus, other than being in fear of our bags being stolen, other than sharing our 2 person seat on the chicken bus with 2 Guatemalan men, other than being given false information in an attempt to relieve us of our cash on numerous occasions..... Yes it was easy.
Cloudy and nippy Antigua seems a lifetime away from that little carribbean island.