Glover's Atoll Resort Belize City

... has a cool Caribbean vibe, and it is an oddity for Central America in that it is fully English speaking and predominately black.

After five minutes out in the blazing sun and oppressive humidity I was done exploring this ramshackle low-rise concrete paradise that is in various states of decay. The city just bakes under a relentless sun and the only activity really would be the locals holding up walls ...

... said. Not the most popular of chaps at the mo, Lord A. We got all of this history - and a lot of other stuff - as JP took the 5 of us westwards past the new capital, Belmopan. Oh yes - the capital used to be Belize City, on the coast, but that was flattened by a bad-tempered young lady called Hurricane Hattie in 1961 (we passed through Hattieville en route, a settlement founded by the government to re-house displaced people after the ...

... up, strapped headlights on, and headed out across the long rope bridge over the river. Walking across the bridge alone made you feel drunk..stumbling, having to hold on. Since the rainy season had ended you could see the large banks of the river and tubes floating, tied up to branches..I assume for some fun floating. The floating logs often look like the crocodiles that live in the river, which the tour guide jokingly called logodiles. The tour guide that I was walking ...

... clocks. All was good with Zoey until the first Howler monkey said goodnight. Zoey's ears went back and she looked at us as if to say,what the heck was that ? Dog patrol was officially over and there would be none of the usual barking at what ever had made that noise. Zoey placed herself by our feet and looked from us to the motorhome.Resigned to the fact that we were not scurrying inside she laid low in ...

... out to the ´Cayes´ local islands surrounded by the worlds 2nd largest barrier reef. Caye Caulker was our pick and we headed out there on an obscenely fast boat as early a physically possible the next morning. An appalling breakfast followed by a walking tour of all the entire islands beach Cabañas saw us in a bright purple shack high off the ground with an unspoilt view deep blue sea a fair way from the centre. We met a lovely British couple for a ...

... is the best thing in the world and a co-worker from Costa Rica quickly faxed over the documents. I was good to go. I was escorted to the run-away by the pilot who wasn´t joking when he asked if I had ever been on a charter flight, the 12 seat jump plane was empty just me and the pilot. It was really awesome. I can not even begin to describe the color of this water!! So beautiful my favorite color so bright turquoise in all ...

... craft we decorated burger king crowns and at music center we taught the song royalty from NSAC'S summer vbs. And the last station made balloon animals, which went great, but all the kids wanted to pop them. Lunch was at Gentle's restaurant and it was amazing. Rice, beans, and stewed chicken with some sort of potato salad...yum...haha and during lunch, sophie, leah, krystal and myself all got our hair ...

... Belize. They would expect rains to begin in the next 3 or 4 weeks. San Ignacio was much like Santa Elena, but the businesses there seemed to be a little better off and the houses were very slightly nicer than in Santa Elena. We were still relatively unimpressed but were still suffering from a bit of shock. Warming up to the area would take a couple of days. We rode through a couple of streets in town and came to a small traffic circle ...

... juice. Good stuff. The next day, I did nothing. I really can't remember anything of note - I think I just spent most of the day reading. The trouble was that during my stay on Caye Caulker, a ferocious wind had been whipped up, and it was only getting stronger. This was really annoying for 3 reasons, in increasing importance - a) it blew sand everywhere, which as well as being annoying in general, was destroying my eyes, b) it made scuba diving, which was pretty much the ...