So, we got picked up at 5am from Flores, Guatemala for Belize City, Belize. Belize used to be called British Honduras - yes you guessed it, it was previously under the reign of the British. Once in Belize, both of us felt a strange sense of relief to hear and see English everywhere, it makes life a lot easier and you can relax a little. For example: ordering a meal takes 30 seconds rather than 30 minutes!

We had a hassle free journey across the border to Belize City where we caught a boat to Caye Caulker. Once we got off the boat at Caye Caulker, we were greeted by a floor sign that said "Go Slow". This gave us an indication on how our next couple of days would pan out.

Our backpackers was awesome, there were lots of hammocks and our room had a lovely breeze. The primary reason for visiting Caye Caulker was to visit the Blue Hole, so we headed straight to our chosen dive operator only to find that trips only go ahead if there's more than 8 people and that at that moment there was only 3 of us so it was a very tense 24 hours as we were desperate to visit the Blue Hole.

The next day we sunbathed...on a jetty as while Caye Caulker is an Caribbean island through and through they do not have proper beaches unless you call the 'Split' a beach. The 'Split' is where hurricane Hattie ripped through the middle of Caye Caulker and it's a concrete beach with a bar.

At the end of the day we returned to our chosen dive operator to find that 12 people had signed up for the Blue Hole trip so we needn't have worried. Now for a 5am start the next day.

We headed to the dive shop at 5am for breakfast and to put our gear together ready for our Blue Hole trip. Fast forwards a two hour bumpy boat ride we were at the Blue Hole. Before we jumped in, Helen was slowly losing her patience with the staff on the boat as they kept interfering with her equipment. She felt like screaming "I'm more than capable", Nick couldn't help but suppress giggles. We descended to 42m where we saw some amazing Stalagmites and lots of grey reef sharks. Unfortunately, because of the lighting we weren't able to take many good photos.

Our next stop was Half Moon Caye, which we thought was an OK dive site. It wasn't spectacular and seemed to be similar to any other dive site we've done. We then had lunch on Half Moon Caye island and headed to the bird sanctuary to see lots of Red Footed Boobies nesting which was amazing. Once everyone was ready we headed to our final dive site, the Aquarium and as its name suggests there were loads of reef fish but...nothing outstanding. Call us spoilt!

On our return to Caye Caulker, we raised our concerns with the dive operator re. number of divers per Divemaster and the quality of the Divemasters. The owner of the dive operation blew his top with us saying that nobody has ever made an complaint and walked off. We were gobsmacked as we were purely giving feedback but he refused to let us pay for their service leaving us to pay only for the park fee.

We were feeling really awkward and wanted to leave there and then, luckily we had booked an early morning boat the following day so we only had to show our faces for one evening.

On Thursday morning, we caught an early morning boat and headed to Chetumal, Mexico so we could catch an ADO bus to our next destination, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico to see our friends that we haven't seen in over a year.