Today is a very sad day:( Woke up to the awfully sad news that our darling Eugene had passed away... I'm so sad. I know he's at peace and in a better place... But never really wanted him to go... I am so grateful for all the time I got to spend with him this year... I wish I could be there with my cousins and Rose right now but will get there soon. Unfortunately then I was a bit weepy and sad today, but we still had a good day. We had booked a coffee tour at a p...

Ok! Today was decision time... We got up early to catch our shuttle to Antigua... Luckily we were all on the same shuttle so we could make a call... Initially, Barbs and them were hoping to make it to Guatemala City in time to catch the 2pm bus to Nicaragua - this is the next country to logically visit while on the way to Panama and everyone says its incredible! Unfortunately, Guatemalan shuttle services are very unreliable and we only left at 8am (due to leave a...

Had a surprisingly good sleep at Mr Mullets haha... No bed bugs thank goodness! Poor Barbs got nailed at the Gonzalez joint... Our wifi was, however, not working so I walked to Gonzalez to use theirs and Skyped Byravi (yay!) and home... We were taking it super chilled this morning:) Only got going to breakfast eventually at around 11am... We found a little spot and had a champion breakfast with smoothies and all! We even had some hippy serenading us with what I c...

Our journey from Antigua to Panajachel was somewhat bumpy and treacherous haha... Very glad to say we got there safely!! We then had to get onto a little fishing-type boat in order to cross Lake Atitlan and arrive at the village of San Pedro! It was a hazy day but the lake is nonetheless beautiful... We had good views of San Pedro volcano on the way... When we arrived at San Pedro, I had to drag my stupid heavy suitcase up so many stairs- never ever would I trav...

Tikal day!! I was up bright and early in time for the 4:30am pick up for our tour... Sarah decided to skip the tour as she wasn't feeling well... I got dressed and ready and lugged my incredibly overweight suitcase down treacherous stairs to keep stored in the chill area of the hostel seeing as we were leaving that night and had to check out our room... I picked up the packed lunch we had ordered the night before and waited for our shuttle to arrive to take us to...