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Nicaragua – Covid and Contradictions
It was our last morning in El Salvador before heading to Nicaragua by boat. As we hoisted our bags onto our backs at about 6.30am, the sun was already hot. The caged parrot…
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Macaws, Mountains and Men with Guns
Honduras has been the ‘bad boy’ of Central America for a long time, topping the tables for all the wrong reasons – murders, poverty, corruption and extortion. After the crowds and chaos at…
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Leaving Belize – Crossings
The first person we met in Punta Gorda, a small, rambling port town in Southern Belize, was Delphin, a Garifuna man who swore that Queen Elizabeth appeared to him on the day she…
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Beautiful Belize – Waiting for a Hurricane
Another early morning when we were up before dawn in Flores to get the bus to take us to Belize. It was 5.30am but the town was anything but quiet. There was a…
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Lakes and Lost Cities in Guatemala
The bus creaked, stalled and missed a gear on the first hill outside Panajachel – not a good start on a nine-hour journey that would take us from the shores of gorgeous Lake…