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A Gringa in Cofradia
When living in Spain I never felt out of place. While all the blonde tall girls were getting whistled and stared at I was able to blend right into the crowd with the Spanish girls and their medium complexions and dark wavy hair. In Honduras it's a very different story. I am a gringa, the slang term for white girl. The cat calls, whistles, hisses, and various other sounds of "affection" are quite common. I guess its what you expect in such a machismo ...
Thanksgiving...Honduran Style
... school, we get a four day weekend for a holiday nobody else in town celebrates! Woo-hoo!
The whole Gringo Crew (Kristi, Amy, Christine, Chad and myself) decide it's time to visit Honduras' other coast. The pretty one bordering the Caribbean. It takes some group coercion to persuade Kristi to come along instead of painting the house, but she finally acquiesces. With our bags packed and hotel booked, we prepare for Tela, a ...
Good Ridence!
... tortillas were served with her meal, then she *****ed about how they wanted to charge her for extra tortillas, then she *****ed that she didnīt get a free coffee refill. We were very quickly realizing that this is not the type of person we wanted to be associated with at all and that last nights scenario was obviously habit and not fluke. After breakfast we did some research as to what bus we needed to catch to get ourselves to Tela. She wanted ...
Fried fish and plantains
The beaches and water around Tela were a bit of a let down after spending time out on Roatan but we had a good time there anyway and I had way too much fried fish and plantain. I think I had fried fish and plantain about three times in two days. On the first day there we visited a tropical botanic garden just out of town. It was very different to any botanic gardens we had ever been to. We somehow got lost half way through and ended up in this dense jungle ...
Pico Bonito
... and oars flying I must have hit something. So we continued on and at another part, Ryan told us we could get out and swim down the river alongside the boat. That part was pretty fun, although it got really shallow at one part and we were sliding over some rocks while trying to keep afloat on our backs (we were wearing helmets and life jackets this whole time as well). I think I hit a rock or something with my ankle at one point. Then we got back in the boat and continued ...


