Some reviews said that the ferry to the tropical island of Koh Phangan was a rusty tub that was always late and  also home to families of cockroaches. While it was a little…

Eleven Weeks, six Countries, (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua), two hurricanes, many boat trips, numerous bus journeys, eye-watering natural beauty, some minor stomach upsets, lots of rice and beans and…

We couldn’t drag ourselves away from Nicaragua so we lingered for another day in San Juan del Sur before heading to Costa Rica and home. The joys of flexibility when traveling😎. After our experiences…

In the last post, we were just about to set off on a hike to Volcan Maderas on the tropical island of Ometepe. It was quite an experience – far more challenging than…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The last time I posted, we had booked transport to take us from historic Antigua to the shores of Lake Atitlan. The transport was a ‘shared shuttle’, a minibus that picks you up…