Great House Belize

When is the right time to travel, change your job, move house? Is the grass greener on the other side or is it best to stay put? Well, after many months of careful consideration, soul-searching, money counting and recounting and general to-ing and fro-ing ...

... 't speak Spanish.  Costs: Belize is realtively expensive compared to other Central American countries." We will be staying at The Great House: "The Great House is located in the renowned Fort George area and is just 100 meters from the Caribbean Sea. ...

... House and we'd definitely recommend it for those who will be coming to visit!). It was a nice transition into life in Belize. The training mostly consisted of language classes in Creole and lectures on what we should and should not do while here. ...

... living in belize for almost nine months, I feel that I have started to really come to understand the "Belizeness" of things. Belize is a country of randomness. Sometimes I feel like I am living in a cross between the land of broken toys in Rudolph ...

... for lots of people it is only important what do I give my children tonight for dinner. But for now, only 16 km Belize, before named British Honduras Yes it is different up here, touristic, you can buy everything, but expensive. Yesterday we bought half a ...

... dinner.   Herve and Kathy Cormier retired to Hopkins five years ago.  They had no prior connections with Hopkins or Belize but, after much research, found it was one of the few safe but inexpensive places left for them to retire to where they ...

... to be at this very same beach (it's about 6 km long).  The next day we left early and traveled south into Belize.  Our first border crossing went smoothly, and we arrived in Belize City that evening around 6.  The whole country has a ...

... head on all the coins. So far, well, I've just met the taxi driver, who was friendly and welcomed me to Belize and wished me a great stay. The guesthouse I'm staying at is totally walkable from the bus station, but the area where the bus station is ...

... experience, we needed a bit of luxury! So we flew from Caye Caulker (got unbelievable views of the island from the air!) into Belize City, then on to Placencia. Since there were no seats left for John to sit in on the way to Belize City, they told him to ...

arrived in Belize yesterday it very humid here but cloudy due to it being hurricane season Belize city is very strange it looks more like a seaside village than a capital city every thing is very expensive here and its a little bit dangerous at night ...

Won't write much, because there's not much to say. But will say it was a better side to Belize  - quaint, pretty, and I didn't feel like I'd be kidnapped/raped/murdered everytime I turned the corner. That was a nice change. Met the Canadians guys and ...

... `so we had to get them off, take them through...and then they didn`t search us! What was really freaky was that in Belize everyone speaks English...after 5 months, it is a little strange. Our first stop in Belize was San Ignacio, and there were a ...

... more apparent!! Great place, great people, great food.. perfect. We were up bright and early the next day to head into Belize. We had deliberated a great deal about whether to go to Belize or not as weŽd heard it was very expensive, but we had to pass ...

... decants these into bottles he has found on the side of the road. This water is for sale in the guest-house. Actually on sale. Nothing is free in Belize, and definitely not at this place. Anyway. Today started with a wander down to the bus station to check ...

... to irrigate their crops and enough water for the people. On the way back we stopped at Remo’s Bar and had a great chat with him about the people of Belize and how they are such a mixed up country. If you are passing this way make a detour to go to ...

... lady who married a Belizean man and now serves up delicious take-away Jamaican food to support her children's schooling in Belize City. We supported her by dining on her food one evening while sitting on our own balcony and making many appreciative ...

... suburbs are the wealthy ones by all accounts but we never headed up that way. -------------------------------------------- A brief History of Belize British pirates first used the coast of Belize while attacking the rich Spanish treasure fleets that ...

... next meal. It was definitely an amazing site to see. In all, we had a great time in Key Culker, and Belize as a whole. The people were great, the food amazing, and the rum abundant. We both are really happy with our decision to head there on the visa ...

... hot for a few hours before the next rainstorm would hit. The food here was great and we found some great little backstreet huts where the mom of the house would be baking all day and selling the food she had been cooking. Best banana bread and pineapple ...

... ordering food (she is so funny!). Tessa and I went back to the house, and after waiting Jon finally pulled up at the house. It was just great!!! Unfortunately for him we hopped back on a bus and headed out to the farm. He loved it though and what a great ...

... for them because of what they do for Belize's agricultural economy. (They are good farmers). The other funny thing about Belize is the great amount of Chinese restaurants. They are everywhere. A Taiwanese couple runs even our hotel, the Akihito Hotel, ...