So from Honduras I spent 2 days making my way to Belize, first stop a small beach village called Placencia.  It had a nice beach and all the locals are very friendly. I spent one evening in a bar with all the locals playing cards and learning how to speak Creole!  Then I went north to an island called Caye Caulker.  One highlight here was eating at Rasta Pasta (a recommendation from Ros and Ozzie!) and of course snorkelling with sting rays and sharks at ...

WELL.....I DID IT!!!! I just passed my PADI Open Water Diving Certification!!!!! I know a few of you can scuba dive too but for me it was one of the hardest, most challenging things I have ever done. Some of the skills I found very difficult like swimming without your mask on under water but my instructors were amazing and very patient! On my second open water dive yesterday, I had to pretend I had no air and use my buddys alternate regulator to go bac...

I am now back in Antigua where my tour finished yesterday.  The tour was excellent although we had a very random mix of people...me being the youngest, Petra a 34 yr old from Holland, a mother and daughter from Canada, a couple in their 40s and a 76 year old called Phyllis who we all suspected was originally a Phillip!!  Anyway, we travelled all over the country and saw alot in two weeks.  We went to Lanquin first and spent a day at Semuc Champney, a b...

So from San Juan Del Sur, I headed to Ometepe Island in Nicaragua which has two massive volcanoes on it.  I stayed on a beach called Santo Domingo with an amazing view of Volcan Madera.  I did some more horse riding, one trip to the petroglyphs which are engravings on huge rocks that have been there for thousands of years and another trip to the agua de ojo.  This was a beautiful water hole to take a dip in but it was freezing too!  I really liked the...

So since last time...after Puerto Viejo, I went back down to the Pacific Coast to Manuel Antonio, a beautiful national park. Saw lots of monkeys and sloths, also bumped into two friends from Spanish school, randomly on the beach. It was nice to spend some time with them, we went out to a real locals bar one evening and mingled with the ticos! Then I went back to the Caribbean side (don´t ask why i zig-zaged across the country!), and visited Tortuguero Nat...