2/3/10 - day 83. woke up feeling predictably awful at about 6am. slept on and off til about half 10 then went for fruit salad breakfast. there was a lad drinking a beer while i was waiting for my food. thought thats a bit early for a tuesday morning. then i noticed to other lads with bottle of rum, pouring themselves big glasses of the stuff. i was nearly sick at the sight of it. i looked away to an even more odd sight. a security guard whipping a razor out of...

1/3/10 - day 82. up at 8, waited outside the hostel for the bus to the beach. monterrico is only about 3 hours south of antigua and i had decided it was where i wanted to spend my final week. there was an american family on the bus who had been travelling around guatemala the last couple weeks on a package tour with FORTY(!) other people and a tour guide for every place they visited. i over heard them saying they'd stayed somewhere for just 80 bucks a night. t...

28/2/10 - day 81. up at half 7 and walked to the where the bus goes from for the 3 hour trip to Antigua. i didnt want to go to antigua however. id bought a ticket the day before to monterrico which is a little beach town down on the pacific coast, but the guy came to find me the night before to tell me that the bus couldnt take me directly and that id have to stop over in antigua for the night then leave for monterrico the following morning. rather than rearra...

27/2/10 - day 80. got up at half 8 feeling better than yesterday. went down to another sports bar id found yesterday that advertised showing a load of football. i watched birmingham vs wigan followed by stoke vs Arsenal. chanced a sauasge and egg roll and thoroughly enjoyed the games - particularly our victory. the fella behind the bar was from england and he'd told me when i got there chelsea had earlier lost to man city so all in all a great morning! in fact...

26/2/10 - day 79. woke up feeling sick. i felt pretty rough, was having some odd stomach pains and without going into detail i had to stay within easy reach of a toilet at all times for a few hours. when these issues subsided a little, my stomach was feeling really empty so i went out and risked some tomato soup. while i was out, my run of chance meetings continued when i saw canadians cole and christina for about the 4th time. after commenting that i didnt...