Hello. I'm in Guatemala City right now. I've been here for a few days. I had to renew my visa on Monday but I ended up hanging around longer because of this dratted persistent sickness. Luckily found a really great doctor who I think fell a little bit in love with me! Not entirely appropriate but perhaps if kisses came with all medication we'd be a lot healthier! He was pretty old and harmless and seems to have given me the right medication so I'm...

Hey well the jolly good news is i'm feeling much better today. The nausea has gone and I'm feeling more positive. Thanks for all the well wishes. I've been a little unlucky with the belly beasts but I met a doctor today who assured me that it's perfectly natural for foreigners in this part of the world and it can take some time for your system to adjust to all the alien bacterias and tricksy amoebas... to be honest I think the locals get sick with it too. Anyway,...

What a grump I am! I'm in one of the most beautiful countries in the world and I'm feeling quite hateful about all sorts of things! Well I suppose that's mostly because I've been sick... again! It's getting right on my nerves! This is the third time... actually I think this is a continuation of round two cos I've not been right since then... some evil beast has been lurking in my midsts and it reared it's ugly head again a couple of days ago... so I spent one hot...

hola... estoy sola otra vez! so i'm alone again... i parted ways with my friends in Guatemala City today and I'm now back in Cobán. It's a while back now but I did pass through this town when I first arrived in Guatemala... I was rather grotty with amoebas at that time though so it's nice to be back here fighting fit! It's also nice to back here armed with a better grasp of the spanish language. People here are very friendly and helpful. I'm just h...

So right now I'm in Antigua which is very pretty if a little over run with gringos... I feel like I can legitimately say that now without feeling like a hypocrite as one of my guatemalan friends so rightly pointed out "you're not a gringa anna, you're a hooligan!" Since Xela I've more or less had a lazy week. On the way here I stopped in Guate City with some friends and watched a rojos v super chivos football match (that's guate v xelaju). We had to qu...