Hello for a final time from this blog site. As you may know, I haven't uploaded any of my photos to this site for some time - mostly due to frustrations with actually uploading them from an internet cafe. Well, it's taken me a while since I've been home, but they're finally here now. It's probably mostly for my own indulgence, as this website will stay online permanently as a little souvenir of my trip, but I know some of you will be interested in the rest of ...

Well, this will definitely be the first destination featured in this blog you won't be so jealous of?. After travelling to Brazil, Bolivia and Belize, I'm now back in Basingstoke! To be honest with you, I can't believe the time has gone so quickly and that five months have raced by so fast. Still, all good things must come to an end, and I'm going to enjoy catching up with everyone now that I'm home. However, there's still a few little stories from my last fe...

Oh nooooooo! It's nearly all over! As I'm writing this I can't believe I only have about 10 days left before getting back to the real world. Still, as per usual, I've certainly been making the most of what precious time I have left. Since my last blog I have pretty much been on the beach the whole time! From San Ignacio we went across to Caye Caulker, a tiny island in the Caribbean just off the coast of Belize. Although there's not so much of a beach there,...

Hello from Belize..... what can I tell you..... I've just crossed the border from Guatemala only a few hours ago, and it feels like I've been transported to a Caribbean Island! People speak English here (it used to be British Honduras until they got their independence from us in 1981), allbeit with a very Caribbean accent, their skin is darker and more like Afro-Caribbean than the Mayan/indigenous/Spanish mix elsewhere, and the pace of life has slowed down ano...

Hola de Antigua, Guatemala! Obviously I'm really excited to be here, but can't help but to feel a little sad as well.... It is very odd to be without the group of people who came to become my little family for the last four months. I was also very sad at having to leave Ecuador - a place I really took to, and hope to return to very soon to see a bit more. As well as being stunningly beautiful, their people have to be the friendliest and warmest in South A...