Washington is a beautiful city, and reminds us of London in a lot of ways; big parks with wide walkways, low rise buildings and lots of history. (Though it is a lot cleaner!). It also seems like it was designed with the tourist in mind. We did a lot of walking but nothing is futher than 45 minutes by foot from the capitol building. We are staying with Alex, the brother of a girl we met in Guatemala, his girlfriend Karyn and their huge ginger cat Banjo. They are ...

17 hours overnight on a Greyhound bus...Wonderful! Actually it wasn't as bad as we thought it would be and with the help of some travel sick pills for me we both got a decent amount of sleep. Charlottesville, near Richmond, wasn't on our original route but that was because we had not met Ann and the famed southern hospitality. We met Ann at the Spanish school in Costa Rica and although she was only there for a week we immediately loved her. So we decided we had ...

U.S. immigration makes me nervous at the best of times but when you are carrying things bought in Cuba it is so much worse! You aren't allowed anything even related to Cuba into the US. We had one or two things and were getting really worried that they would be taken off us. It all strikes me as a bit daft considering we weren't planning on leaving any of the offending items in the USA and I would have been really upset if they had been taken off us. When going t...

We arrived in Nassau 3 days ago and, after being in Cuba, it is a seriously huge contrast! Nassau is a millionaire's playground and flying over the island you can see the mansions, each with a pool bigger than the last. It is also a big shock to our wallets! First of all there were no buses from the airport...this is the kind of places with 'ladies that lunch' and who don't do buses darling! When we got to our hotel our wallet took an almighty hit. I had booked t...

Okay, it's Ian by the way. I'm sitting in an apartment in New York on 3rd April and it's late but Suzy really wants me to write up a little something about Cuba, so here goes. I apologise for the fact that it's pretty brief but I'm REALLY tired! > Most people we met in Cuba would like to see some changes and quite a few felt that if the US administration allowed Americans to visit as tourists and stopped the embargo then the economy would be greatly improved ...