We crossed the border into Belize on Saturday afternoon after a ride down from Cancun in the pouring rain. Today (Sunday) we've moved south to Belize City. Todays ride was through even more heavy rain; roads had become rivers, with a foot of fast flowing water. We have hust learnt from the BBC's weather site that this is Hurricane Arthur, the At...

I signed up for a shore excursion this week and got to go on a wonderful trip into Belize. We started by taking a small boat trip down the "Old River" or "Wallace River" as the British called it. There were all sorts of iguanas, birds, butterflies, crocodiles, and amazing plants among the mangroves. I'll try to post some pictures with this entry...

I am still not making any of this up. So now it's raining on us and a lot of other people beside me are saying that it'd be a good idea to wrap up this excursion and head back to the ship. But, NOOOO! Our excursion includes a stop off at a 'party' island and DARN IT, we were going to be taken there and have a party and we were GOING TO LIKE IT! ...

We had read that Belize city is dangerous and you need to be careful. Nowadays there are lots of tourist police that roam about on bikes and make sure that tourists are all right. We were on our guard, but it did seem okay and apart from someone asking if we wanted to buy some whisky, no one bothered with us. The city is really only a big town a...

Today was cardio/non-swimming exercise day, which I normally do in the evenings. My options are bike across town to the gym at the US Embassy or do some yoga at home. (There are other options - such as run or bike around the track at the Sports Complex - but I am not a big fan of either, so I have eliminated those as "real" options.) I was fight...

Peter and I made it to Belize -- 1:45 P.M. yesterday afternoon. Belize City, the former capital of Belize, is a small town on the mouth of the Belize River (the river divides the city in half). It seems that there are no buildings here taller than six stories (don't know why). For our first dinner here, we had yummy...Indian food. Yup! No rice a...