Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Back to School….s
Day 326
Xela, Guatemala
I’ve been in Xela for 10 days now and not just hanging out watching cable TV! :p My travels have brought me here to improve my Spanish and its going quite well. My teacher Rosario is rather nice and we sitting chatting about all kinds of stuff in between learning a mass of [...]
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Post 300
Day 320
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
300 posts eh?
Yesterday I felt really bad. I was supposed to be getting up at 5.30 and hiking up to a lake for 2 hours. After tossing and turning until 3.30 and then only getting a couple of hours sleep, combined with a muffled headache and sore throat I reset my alarm and [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana, Batman!
Day 312
Semuc Champey, Guatemala
I was at “the most beautiful place in Guatemala” but it didn’t quite seem like that. After my exhausting trip there I slept for 14 hours and decided I would go to the waterfalls of Semuc Champey in the afternoon. The weather conspired against me on that front as a black cloud [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The road to Heaven
Day 310
Semuc Champey, Guatemala
I had to wait to pass a couple of buses filled with curious locals to survey the damage. Somehow the genius of Bills repair had held. No oil was coming out and I could continue. At least until I hit another big rock.
Nothing was going to stop the sun from setting though [...]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
The road from Hell
Day 310
Semuc Champey, Guatemala
The girl, Kara, I had spent the day sitting in the bank and fixing my brakes on Monday with still hadn’t come back from Tikal. I was slightly concerned but I really had to leave. I pointed out this information to the good people of Los Amigo hostel and after another spell [...]
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Day off in Flores
Flores, Guatemala
In Flores we wound up staying at Los Amigos, only Q30 in the dorms and they also do vegetarian food. Nice.
Franco, one of the Los Amigo hostel parrots.
Spanish study time. Te quero! :p
I have a vocabulary of about 700 words now and am looking forward to going to Spanish School.
Later on that afternoon I [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Welcome to Guatemala
Flores, Guatemala
No breakfast for us, Katrijn and I set off early for a very sweaty walk back to the car. Once there we found that Bill had patched up my leak with some JB Weld and we poured in a quart of oil and held our breath. It seemed to hold so in went another [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Heading to the beach
Caye Caulker, Belize
I filled my backpack and headed down to the pier in time for the noon ferry over to Caye Caulker, a little strip of land that I should probably have gone over to the week before if Vanessa hadn’t distracted me :p At least the weather seemed more reasonable, the water was even [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Jaguars baby!
Orange Walk, Belize
I went to bed late after sorting out another million photos, certainly later than Vanessa who walk into the cheap hotel room, fell into bed and didn’t stir afterwards. She still thought it would be a good idea to wake me up as soon as she did though instead of leaving me in [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
3 thrills a day
Hopkins, Belize
Visiting a salsa factory isn’t really very thrilling but its interesting to see. Marie Sharp is a Belizean legend and her hot sauce is on over table in the country. Pop into the factory for a tour if you’re passing that way.
After that we went swimming in the Blue Hole [...]
