New Year, New country..................Happy New Year to everyone from Belize. We started ours officially at 6pm Belize time, midnight in Bonnie Scotland, with a large rum. We were joined by John, who runs J&Rs Guest House, our home for 5 days. The R stands for Rose, his wife. Our trip over the border from Guatemala was not without incident!...

"The forecast for today is a category five hurricane with a slight chance of flash flooding." Well, when you go to Central America during Hurricane season these things tend to happen. After waking up this morning in the city of Orange Walk in Belize we looked at the updated Hurricane forecast and saw the whole of Belize had been place on a hurri...

Nothing much to report here. I arrived at around 8pm and was directed down a dark alley. Not the best of ideas but it was a short alley so we risked it. The town was dead. And all of the shops and hotels were locked up behind metal cages. It made the place seem like some lawless wild west town. I was planning on spending a couple of days here an...

This morning we slept in!! On the way to find out what we wanted to do today I remembered that the market was in town today so we went to check it out. Basically the same as any farmers market - food, vegetables, yard sales of junk no one needs that other people found in their house and hutterites. This time though they were Mennonites from a to...

Well for those who are wondering, we are currently staying at the Pacz Guesthouse in San Ignacio. We took a cab here and it cost us $150 BZ from Belize City, next time we'll be taking the bus. Pacz is run by Diana and her husband, both very nice people, who live next door and are very helpful. So far it's incredibly hot, so we headed for the riv...