Casa Cangrejal La Ceiba

... che va dal chiapas fino al costa
rica, poi divenne capitale "solo" del guatemala. Il problema
di questa citta' e' che oltre a trovarsi in un territorio soggetto a frequenti
terremoti si trova pure circondata da 3 vulcani che ogni tanto fanno quello
che possono per non farsi dimenticare, quindi, terremoti ed eruzioni hanno
fatto si che la citta' si dovesse ...

... had her hands full with her three kids and her black lab, Bingo plus the new addition to the family, a three week old puppy whose name kept changing every day! We thus waited ages for our food and got wrong orders and harrassed smiles from Christina, still, we were sitting right on the water with blue sky above and blue sea below, we didn´t complain much. I was in my element watching Zoey, the yellow lab, watch Bingo as he swam off the dock and then try and help him ...

... the boat behind). We made our way up river in a variety of ways -- hiking, swimming against the current, jumpping off of rather large rocks, and at one point, being pulled by a rope, in a ´practice rescue´. We finally got to a specific rapid, where we learned that we would be practicing how to deal with falling out of the boat. Specifically, it was apparently necessary that we know what it feels like to be going face ...

... refugees and finally figured out where to buy tickets for the next leg of the trip to La Ceiba.

Honduran spanish is much faster than in Guatemala with a different accent so I was back to pre-school spanish once again. We managed to work an ATM in spanish, ordered up some Honduran fried chicken at the little food court (our choices from the 10 plus food stalls were fried chicken, fried chicken or fried chicken) after determining which mound of fried chicken had the fewest ...

... the cooking-sausages-on-molten-lava pictures, as well as everything from the past few weeks in Utila).





In Puerto Cortes, we boarded a chicken bus bound for the Honduras/Guatemala border, arriving at customs at dusk. There was an awkward few minutes when the teenagers with machine guns at Honduras customs inspected our passports and debated whether or not they’d let us through as the border was officially closed for the day ...

... batch can be refilled with rum for 3-8 years! Because of the different stuff in it, it wakes you up, acts as a natural mosquito repellant and means pretty much no hang over! I love this stuff. The first taste though wasn't the best when we thought it was meant to be shot, not sipped. Learnt that quickly and then every one grew on us after that! By this point there was no way we were still leaving in the morning!

Mon June 8

Zipling today! Saw a tarantula and a ...

... noch vom Dreck zusammengehalten wurden, war voll. Ueber ein Divecenter fanden wir dann doch noch eine Bleibe, wo wir dann auch ueber die Dunkelheit ganz froh waren. Als wir zum ersten Mal den Besitzer trafen, dachten wir, wir haetten einen verrueckten Alkoholiker vor der Tuer und haben uns erstmal geweigert, aufzumachen. Diese Umstaende mussten dann auch mit den gleichen Mitteln bekaempft werden und Utila, sowieso als Partyhochburg bekannt, machte uns es in der ...

... upset about it than he was. I think he was content just to see them from the boat. So we've had a pretty great time on this island, despite the hungry sand flies that devour us at any chance they get. The plan is to leave tomorrow, but we tried to leave a couple days ago and that didn't go so well. We head off (if the ferry goes) for Teguchigalpa, the capital of Honduras where we will start our journey to Nicaragua. Goodbye Utila, we love you!

... up only when we picked up a clown. She wore the full standard issue clown gear, colourful striped shirt and baggy trousers with braces, with a red nose and a badly painted smile. She started to tell many rather unfunny jokes which nobody laughed at and she used a tin filled with rocks to punctuate the punch line, a portable drum of a kind. When she realised that her jokes had flopped and that nobody was going to give her any ...

... When we got back to the lodge we jumped off the rocks into the river and I even jumped off the 10 metre one! That's the highest I've ever jumped off and Rikki didn't believe I would do it! But I did, and I didn't even scream! At least I thought I didn't but Rikki said that I did. That night it poured! We had to walk outside to get from our room to the dining area and we virtually had a shower in the ...