So now we are in Panajachel on the shore of the beautiful lake Atitlan. The computer won´t let me upload pictures today so you´ll have to makee do with a parrot! Not much news since we last wrote except that we managed to fit people and the driver into a tuk tuk last night. As the smallest (ha ha victory!) I got to sit on the parcel shelf!!!! It caused much hilarity! I then got mooned at... So its all good fun. Today I´ve been shopping and only bought one...

Hi everyone, Just a quick message to let you know that I am well and having a brilliant time on the tour so far. Tomorrow we're visiting the most famus ruins in Guatemala (Tikal) so I expect it will be just like Indiana Jones! I will add some photos when I get to a better internet cafe. The other people on the tour are fun and the tummy is finally feeling a bit more human. I don't have much apetite though which will do wonders for Rosemary when I get back! But....

WARNING - Do not read this if you are squeamish!! The volcano picture represents what happened in my stomach! Well just when I thought things couldn´t get any worse I was struck down cruelly with nasty diarrhoea and vomiting, my stomach felt so bloated I thought I was going to explode. Luckily I didn´t! So after a long night alternating between the toilet and the sink I thought I had better go and see a doctor. I went to a very posh private hospital where th...

Just a quickie to let you all know my plans for the next 3 weeks, I don´t know how easily I´ll be able to get onto the internet. I´ve booked myself onto a tour (the map is the route!) and I´m very very excited to be seeing some more of the area. If you are interested you can read the details at http://www.tucantravel.com/tour.php?tour_id=65 hopefully there will be some fun people booked with me and we´ll have a good time! So I leave Antigua on Friday for s...

Well...where to begin. Its been a strange week or so since I last wrote and everything has been turned on its head. I left Antigua on the Friday and arrived at the beach in the middle of a typhoon. It became very clear very quickly that I wasn´t going to be happy at the project. It wasn´t the project´s fault, its me (well the hundreds of thouseands of mosquitos didn´t help!). I think I must have changed a bit, maybe grown up a little, since coming back from...