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...

We were awoken to American yip yap outside our room. American yip yap can go through 3ft of concrete and our walls were no exception. The cheeky b@@@@@ were camped outside on our hamock. A coffee later I was ready to face the day of lazing around taking in the best view for your buck location. It is often not long before someone comes and has a chat. As it happened the American guy came over for a chat. I found out that he was infact from Amsterdam. He turned ou...

One thing we noticed last night was that San Pedro is pretty noisey and walls thin. Locals here seem to have the urge every so often to make some noise. There is a curious single firework explosion that has been following us around Guatemala. You here it normally in the morning or afternoon. Poor old Liz is trying to get the last bit of sleep but it is a losing battle with music playing and tuk tuks reving up the hill. Yesterday we found somewhere better to stay...

Took a shuttle bus over to the small San Pedro on Lake Atilan. A scenic route that took us through volcanic mountains on roads half covered with landslides. The view of the lake and San Pedro as we negociated the final hairpins and potholes down was simply stunning. After Antigua we were looking for somewhere without cockroaches, but with the same atmosphere. We took the first place that we looked at - clean and smelling of roses for the same price. Although we...