Well, its been an interesting time since yesterday - lots to report! I´ll start with what happened last night.....

We all went out to have some dinner but we met up in a bar first to have a drink. Phil got the drinks in but also got us a shot each (well 2 actually because they were buy one get one free) called an uterus - you can imagine what it looked like!! We´ll we each had one, then a cocktail and they were pretty strong but you do kinda get used to it round here. Well anyway, we went to leave to get some food and my new roommate Belu (aka Hulla - like Hullabalo) tried to stand up and couldn´t - a lightweight if ever i´ve seen it!! Anyway we sat he back down, but she was pretty drunk and upset, in the end Phil had to carry her to the restuarant where we put her in a hammock to sleep it off. The rest of us were a bit bemmused by it all, especially as she just kept bursting into tears - poor thing must´ve been so embarrased as she only met us about 2 days ago! We had to carry her back to the room and get her ready for bed - i´m really not cut out for this nursing lark!!

Today, once again it was an early start to get the bus at 5.45am to Tela. We made it onto the bus but after about 30 mintues (of a 3 hour trip) we hit a roadblock. There had been a massive landslide about 200m ahead of us and a lorry was stuck in it. We waited on the bus for about 20 minutes, then a JCB came passed us to try to get the lorry out - it took about an hour and a half to clear the path and even then we weren´t sure we´d make it through. Our driver carefully drove across the tiny patch of earth which made up the road (just enough for a bus to drive but sheer slope on the other side - scary!). It didn´t even end there, the rest of the road was littered with mudslides and huge amounts of flooding - at one point we saw a house which was half covered with water and all the local villages had put up tents on the roadside because there houses were flooding. It really brought it home that we are travelling in a pretty dangerous and very poor part of the world - very humbling.

We finally got to Tela about 6pm in the torrential rain, i´ve not seen rain like it for ages. I went out to the supermarket and the drains on the side of the road are about 1-2 ft deep, but by the time i came out of the shop the road was flooded and the drains were running like rivers!! By the time we came to leave for dinner about 7pm though, the road was pretty dry and you´d never know that the rain had even been apart from the slightly damp road - madness.

Tomorrow its ANOTHER early start to get the bus from Tela to San Pedro Sula, then onto La Ceiba - then we´re heading onto Roatan woo hoo!!!