Nobody has experienced the kind of dissapointment we felt when we hit Tela. It took aaaaggggggeeeeeesssss to get there, we were extremely excited as it would be our first (and perhaps only) time by the caribean sea, and we had big plans to do our PADI scuba diving course on the bay islands just off the coast here. It wasnt just raining. It was raining harder than it did in the bible. Noah would have been screwed if it had been raining that hard when he was tryin...

Ok, so i have somehow made the blog dates retrospective in order that the map is correct (im getting pretty anal about the map..) Also, you should assume from now on that the picture featured in the blogs is never actually one we have taken and may well not be from the place described either, as is the case here, but this site is weird and our current hostel wont let us upload anything from our cameras for some reason, which is a shame as eventually we will post ...

Hi! Before I write what weve been up to we wanted to describe the daily events and objects that make our lives entertaining/miserable at the moment, to give a better picture of what daily life in Central America (or at least Guatemala) is really like. Firstly, The Showers; these appear, upon first glance, to be rather odd yet functional hot water bathing devices. Each hotel owner nods vigourously as we ask if there is Agua Caliente, but we now know this is a li...

firstly - this picture is a lie and is not from Guate at all, but having trouble uploading pics again. I am (partially) recovered from the most horrendous 48 hours of my life, im not sure what it was i ate/drank/touched/went near but it was pretty hardcore and tempted me to venture towards a hospital! Nurse Kate provided plenty of gatorade and advice to sleep and so i am nearly back to life. We didnt fancy a ten hour bus ride in one day so have come about a thi...

Hello everyone! I (Kate) am writing this blog as Matt is currently at death´s door with some kind of flu like illness...well maybe not death´s door but certainly not well! We left Antigua on Friday after our last Spanish lesson and made our way to Lago Atitilan. We now know a little Spanish but are still going to have to do some revising along the way and ask people to speak very slowly. The public transport in Central America consists of very old yellow Amer...