I am pretty sure that it is our last night at San Pedro, we have booked a shuttle out and to change it again will cost 2 more precious dollars. This is probally the longest we have stayed in one place since the start of the trip. Most of the day has been spent making use of the free Internet downloading photos and doing some more travel planing. Hunger drove us out to a lakeside place where we bumped into the Yorkshire guy and the bar man from the Allegre pub. ...

By the time I got up the Israel couple had departed leaving 'Hell' as I like to call her behind. However she was not around so the terrace was nice and quite. I do not know how Liz is yet but it is certain to be a quiet day learning Spanish. A check on Liz at a safe time (pm) confirmed that she was well enough to order her emergency supply of crisps (in a wimpering pretty please type voice). She normally only reserves this voice for bad hangovers so I felt I nee...

The day started in the way I like, either very good or bad depending on your perspective. We were with a Israel man and the better half of two Israel women I call heaven and hell. This perspective got either better or worse when we turned up at the pub for the England match. The offer of free beer if Scotland win, did divide our loyalities a bit. However we did try and watch the England match as much as possible. There were three games playing on separate TV,s...

Whow we are doing something. We took a boat across the lake to San Marco. This gave me an ideal chance to practise my Spanish with the captive local boy on board. Amazingly I was understood (even in English I struggle), but it all goes downhill when I try to understand their questions. Anyway we got to San Marco without anyone jumping overboard. Since we have been here we have been assuming that San Marco was the bigger one of the villages across the lake. This...

We are going through this love hate relationship with learning Spanish the hard way. However this does of course have it's dispensations - more time slobing on the hamock. Currently we have been encouraged that our budget is going up for the first time on the trip. In some perverse logic the less we do the more time we get to do nothing. We have been moving around pretty much constantly so it is good to stop and contemplate where it is cheap. For example San Pe...