Hotel Principe Chetumal

... a good dancer! How funny!

Yesterday, Marco (an Italian guy i met the night before) and i took the boat and bus together to Tulum, about 3 hours south. At the hostel i bumped into Corrine, the English girl that i had met on the islands and got on really well with, and her friend from home Rozy, and so we went out for a meal (i don´t think much of this Mexican food you know - either really bland or far too hot!) and ...

Is it healthy to have water stuck in your ear for 4 days straight? Stacey keeps speaking to me but I have no clue what she is saying. We stopped at the Caye Caulker Bakery for fresh from the oven Cinnamon buns, jam rolls and sweet breads before heading back to Belize City on the Caye Caulker Water Taxi. It was a good thing we purchased roundtrip tickets as they were 5 Belizean cheaper than buying them singularly. We hoped to be able to get to Palenque by evening ...

... which we were told was another 40 km ahead. With the delays, we wondered if the French had passed us or if they were behind us still and just then we came up on their camper, passed them and headed into the city.   We found the place they described and called them and rendez-voused, made a quick supper and set up the camp.   We had a very friendly couple stop and visit with us and share some beers with us until the family arrived.

... blew a wad and it was worth every freakin cent....red curry chicken with jasmin rice, an amazing mushroom appetizer and a few glasses of a terrific sweet white French wine to compliment it all perfectly. Damn it was good. I had to keep slowing myself down so I could enjoy it. AWESOME. From what I hear there is still lots of beans and rice in Belize, but there is more of a Caribbean influence in the food and I am really looking forward ...

Naar vi kom til Chetumal etter en liten busstur fra Tulum m0tte vi en Fransk-Canader (Quebec?) som het Hugo og to Danske jenter som vi fant et Hostel sammen med. Utpaa kvelden dro vi en liten tur ut for aa faa spist litt mat og for aa se byen (siden det ikke ...

... stay with the next day. Looking at the bad weather, we decided to visit the "higly recommended" Maya museum, which was really nice. Simple, complete, with touchscreen for the most complexe information such as the Mayan Calendar or the Mayan numbers system, and I felt I started to really know the Mayan community a bit better, and was now really ready to visit more ruins, having this back ground info in mind. We went for a walk on the seaside the afternoon (with raincoats on ...

... Here we mainly walked around and took in the atmosphere. It was pretty quiet so we only stayed for one night. Next on our list was the inland Blue hole, about 18 miles south of the capital, Belmopan. Here we trekked for what seemed like hours in probably the most humid weather that I've ever experienced. It paid off though because it landed us by the Blue Hole, a lot smaller than the one I dived but was perfect for cooling off before we caught the ...

... The next day we followed the same routine. Watch the sun rise, eat breakfast, go to the internet café, update the website, drive home for dinner, and in bed by 9:00pm. Today though, Geraldine took a reprieve and walked to the Market to buy some fresh fruit and vegetables. One thing we will give the Belizeans is that they are not shy. She was approached by several different people to and from along the one block walk. They were all simply ...

Hola! We are currently in Corozal Belize where it is roasting hot out. We left Cancun yesterday and took the nice air/con bus to Chetumal where we transfered onto another not so nice bus (think old school bus) to Corozal. We instantly met a young man who said he could rap like Sean Paul who followed us, and chatted and helped us find a hostel, only after he expected a tip. Our hostel is called the Maya World hostel and we recommend it to anyone. Good rates, nice quiet ...

... public's attention is diverted right now by the pending elections (see below), so I've had to do some serious jumping up and down and figurative flag waving to get anyone to listen, but it's slowly paying off. The event is on March 19th, so there's still some time. Plus, one of the things we've learned and that has been reinforced by colleagues is that in Belize most everything comes together at the last minute. A little nerve-wracking for those of us who are planners by ...