June 19, 2013 Farewell Costa Rica & Central America Our last couple of weeks in Central America were spent in Costa Rica which we found to contrast starkly with the other central american…
June 7, 2013 Granada, Ometepe Island and down to Costa Rica Our last few days in Granada passed in the excellent company of Californians, Jeff and Gina, who we travelled together with down to Ometepe,…
May 31, 2013 Bus-ing it down to Nicaragua Over the past week or so we’ve spent a lot of time in buses making our way from Lago de Atitlan, all the way…
May 22, 2013 Home-stay in Lago de Atitlan Our experiences with home-stays up until arriving in San Pedro at Lago Atitlan were that they tended to be not very different from basic…
May 16, 2013 Antigua and Lago Atitlan We passed the last few days of our stay in Antigua mostly just enjoying the ambience of the city and its cafes, and also…
May 11, 2013 Tikal and the raining bus to Antigua We’ve spent a lot of time in buses over the last week, travelling all the way from Ambergris Caye down to the beautiful town…
May 4, 2013 Ambergris Caye; ‘The best island in the world’ We happened to read a few weeks ago that Belize’s Ambergis Caye had been voted the world’s best island by the users of tripadvisor.com….
May 1, 2013 A Tulum beach holiday Tulum and the ‘Mayan Riviera’ have a completely different feel to other places we’ve been in Mexico. The sugar white beaches are beautiful and…
April 25, 2013 Chichen Itza and across to Tulum Our last couple of days in Merida passed at a pace suited to the city – relaxed! Iris and her parents did an excellent…
April 22, 2013 Merida and Las Cenotes We’re fortunate enough to be joined by Iris’s parents, who have flown from Austria for the next leg of our journey around the Yucatan…
April 20, 2013 Campeche Whenever I get off the bus, I have a routine which involves searching our seats with the same vigour that a forensic expert would…
April 18, 2013 Palenque A long and windy road brought us to Palenque where we’ve been staying at a place called El Panchan, which is a loose collection…