Hotel Marsol Tela

We´re off the islands and we decide that its a little too far to get to the captial in one jump so head to Tela about 1 hour up the coast. Its the Hondurans beach resort with lancha trips and bananas (the rubber kind) pulled by a boat. We spot a poster around town for a free concert involving a garifuna band so after asking around we went looking for the venue. It turns out to be an old ...

... The Honduras and Nicaragua borders don't really know what they're doing, as nice as those folks with big guns are. So they let us pass on by and told us to go to the capital of San Salvador in El Salvador to deal with getting another visa since they couldn't help us at the actual border. Well, we bounce our way on the old Bluebird U.S. schoolbuses to the El Salvador border where the more informed nice folks with big ...

... dalsi den nasli jiz cistejsi a upravenou plaz, s palmami a krasnym stinem. Kluci-Zbynek s Lubosem to byli dva dny roztocit po barech....O vikendu je tu dost zivi, mistni smetanka si vyrazila z mesta se pobavit. Po plazi jezdi na ctyrkolkach, s hlasitou hudbou, po meste se nosi jedna hvezda vedle druhe, samej bourak.

... iguana station being decorated in birthday balloons. We had our morning meeting to decide the tasks for the week, then we had the cake for breakfast (presumably Claires idea). Claire and Han decorated the cake in opal fruits to spell 22. Nice idea but they didnt really go with the toffee icing the cake had on top. It was all hands on deck after that as some top govermental person was visiting the station in the afternoon. I cleaned the toilets ...

... thorough internet search is that they were a group of slaves who were leaving St. Vincent by boat, they got into a storm and were shipwecked on the Honduran coast about 200 years ago. The Spaniards were in control of Honduras at that time and they let them stay...free. So they created communities along the coast where they have their own religion, language and life style. In Miami they still live in twig and thatch roof houses without electricity or running water ...

... dinner at a steak restaurant. We had a great time just chatting away, I was sitting near Sylvie, Jess, and Cat and conversations went on for 2 hours. All of them are interested in many things. Jess and I have a common interest in biology. Cat is curiousabout linguistics, and studying abroad so I gave her some tips. It's been a nice day, and tomorrow should be just as great. I plan on sleeping in a little, having some pancakes wit the girls, walking around ...

Finally, from San Pedro Sula, we got another directo to Tela, for 65 Limpiras each ($3.75). The mini van dropped us at the Tela bus terminal, which was great. It was a large Pullman-style bus and a comfortable 90 minute ride. The bus left 5 minutes early, and we almost missed it after finding a quick lunch. Once in Tela, we wandered with our packs looking at hotels for an hour or so, finally ...

... watchine a spanish soap opera. The two Canadians I met on the bus watch along and it provides a little entertainment for a while. The bad hotel no good and the bed is worse than bad. I wake up with a very stiff neck and regret my decision from the night before on not looking around for another place and I definitely paid too much. Any amount was too much. Oh well, off for a day of traveling.

... he tried to peck a seed and we went over a wave and he missed it, but fair enough. so by the time we reached the island i had started to feel a little funny aswell, but we got there got our bags and and was hearded on to the back of a truck, apparently taking us to a hostel, well we arrived at a dive centre and we were hearded off again, and went into the dive centre, we were very very very wet at this point. as was little steve who was not happy he was churping constantly, he ...