Thesis is finished and sent! It's all over. After three years of hard work. I threw away all my notes! Fingers crossed I pass, otherwise I'm in trouble!

Anu took her first solo steps today at the apartment at Pasaj Cap. I take it as a sign that we will have to come back one day!

We had a little holiday within our holiday when Tony, a former student of mine, came to visit. He left Düsseldorf a year ago and has since been all over, visiting countries such as Canada, India, New Zealand, Samoa, Guam to name but a few, and now Central America. We were delighted that our paths would cross, and decided to have a BBQ at Pasaj Cap in his honour. We picked him up at his hostel in the village, and after a quick coke and a catch up, we came home to...

Getting off the boat in San Pedro this morning on our way to the market, we met our new neighbours, an American couple with kids. After saying hi, the woman asked us if we felt the earthquake last night. An earthquake? It woke them up as everything in the flat was shaking. While we lay unconscious in dreamland. I just checked online and saw that there was indeed an earthquake in Guatemala last night, measuring 5.5! And we missed it! I can't believe it. That's ...

We decided at breakfast that since we were up early, we would do a bit of exploring and walk to the village of Santa Cruz. We had been told this takes two hours, so planned to walk there, have a coffee somewhere and get a boat back. At 8 we headed off. We had walked some of this route before and knew that after the village of Tzununa the unpaved road becomes more of a track, wide enough for perhaps a jeep, but very steep. Little did we know what was ahead of us!...