Hotel Casa Noble Antigua Guatemala

... enough change for the price of 30 Q, so he ended up getting a substantial tip.

The facilities at the Spanish School Cooperacíon are very basic and simple, but the teachers are extremely nice. Despite coming in almost an hour late, I got my head filled with grammar and vocabulary already on the very first day. Luckily, some of it was already familiar due to the few lessons I've had in Copenhagen before leaving. I am taking as much as 5 hours 5 days per week ...

... in Central America, so we have to hike up at dusk so that we can see the lava when we get to the top... torches and sticks in hand and we start to climb... a little tough but the last 30 minutes was hell... volcanic ash is so tough to climb on.. you take one step and it throws you back two steps.... get to the top, Stephen has to wait for me this time as we are in a tour group and the tour guide has to lead due to the danger involved....

No this is going to ...

... yes as everything in Guatemala does) the bar shut. James and I tried to sniff out an afterparty and ended up in another bar where the prices of drinks were for Guatemalan standards psychotically expensive, so we had one and then at 2:30 am called it a night. The next day, Dave and I again persuaded James to not head to El Salvador but to climb Pacaya, an active volcano just outside of Antigua and one of the must do tick boxes when in the area.

So that ...

... d.h. im Sommer Regnet es jeden zweiten oder dritten Abend für eine Stunde.
Unter der Woche studieren und ein wenig ausgehen. Am Freitag hab ich mir dann gehörig den Magen verdorben es kam überall raus, was halt zeitlich etwas blöd war, da wir am Samstag auf den Vulkan Aqua wollten und es dann auch gemacht haben. Ohne irgendwas im Magen außer einem flauen Gefühl und Übelkeit ist es abr dann doch nicht so toll einen Vulkan von 3760 m zu besteigen. War eine ...

... lava flows, which looked like some sort of alien landscape. We ran down a part of the slope that was covered in ash, and everyones shoes filled up. It was pretty much like running in power snow or sand dunes. We reached the old lava flows which were hard and had formed weird looking patterns, you could also feel the heat in the rocks, and coming up from vents in the ground. We climbed over some of the old lava flows to finally reach ...

... stuff from the sky falls, it is called rain and can be expected in the wet season, look it up on Google. Back in the village at the start point the little kids reclaimed the walking sticks they had hired out, attempted to get Mac to buy them candy-floss and give them his head torch, HA! On the bus and in the dark Mac tucked into the ham and cheese roll Mable bought at lunchtime some 7 hours earlier, she is a good old girl you know, even got him a ...

Holey Moley what traffic....thats what happens when you decide to shoot people right before our arrival. It forces our cab driver to drive down wrong way streets to get us to Antigua. A normal 45 minute ride was turned into a 3 hour ride. He assured us this wasnt normal. Leaving the airport with an Israeli backpacker who was silent most of the trip, about halfway there, the taxi driver tried to fleece us out of some more money than we had aggreed upon for the ride to ANtigua. I flew ...

... chowing down she talks to us slowly and patiently, which is the main reason my Spanish has improved 100 fold since I’ve been here.

5. Teaching the kids - Well, we’ve already been through that.

TOP 5 THINGS I DILSKIKE ABOUT GUATEMALA
1. Toilet Paper - the pipes in Guatemala are apparently very thin, so to avoid clogging the toilet you have to put all your toilet paper in a bin beside the loo. This is ok at home, but in public toilets the bin ...

... to Jamaica as well. But there is also the smoking volcano in the background! We arent here for long, we drive on to Honduras tomorrow morning, so Im going to go and have an explore and make the most of my short time here. Well after Ive had a much needed shower because hopefully my room is ready now! Lots of love to you all, Tess x

... and bought lots of souviners and presents! It was massive and we just kept finding new paths with stalls! A lot of the ladies there were in traditional dress which was really nice to see! We even learnt a bit of spanish for this day - 'I'm just looking', 'how much?' and 'thats too expensive' - the problem occured when they replied, especially as we hadn't learnt numbers! However due to their similarity to french and Kelties spanish skills we did well and bartered hard!!