With only a couple of weeks left doing all of Mexico was going to be impossible. So, we limited ourselves to a couple of places with the priority being sun and relaxing - it is hard work travelling! Chasing the sun, paradise beaches and the chance of some diving we headed from Flores (Guatemala) to Tulum in Mexico, via Belize. This was a gruelling journey of about 16 hours but we finally made it. Unfortunately we were only rewarded with a beautiful beach as the weather was awful. We spent a couple of days in Tulum walking along the beach (in the rain), visiting the ruins, and also caught up with a friend from home, Amy, who has been teaching English there for a couple of months! Hi Amy! We couldn´t hack any more bus journeys ... read more

Our initial plan for Honduras was certainly more than it turned out to be. We blitzed the journey from the border North in order to go to the Bay Islands - tropical paradises with amazing and cheap diving, only to realise that the weather was terrible and there is nothing worse than being on a sandy island in the rain! So instead we went straight to Copan, a famous site of Mayan Ruins. We were slightly delayed in the morning of our second day as we had to get a police report for the things that were stolen from Sallys rucksack on the bus the night before. The cheeky buggars took her sandals and flip flops, fleece, ski jacket and also strangely her bikini bottoms and contact lenses! Never mind, we were not harmed and we ... read more

After a long long journey through Chiquito´s huge banana plantations (think of us when you are next tucking into your bananas), we arrived in San Jose, to those of you who were no good at Geography at school, that´s the capital of Costa Rica. After telling our cabbie which hostal we wanted to go to, he warned us how dangerous that area was by signing his throat being slit - what a nice introduction to Costa Rica. Turns out they just want to get commission from taking you to there own hostals, cheeky little things. Well, we were a bit lazy in San Jose and just saw our hostal and a local shopping center where we went to the cinema. One of the joys about not being multi-linguistic is that we sat down to enjoy our ... read more

We left Colombia aboard a Contessa 32 called Good Karma. Captained by a 29 year old American called Duncan who promised great sailing, food and snorkelling and finally some paradise islands! We also had another couple for company, Ida and Paul who we'd hooked up with to find the boat. It was an excellent trip. We left a stormy Cartagena and 52hrs of fairly rough seas later we had arrived in paradise, Sally only managed to be seasick on the first day after trying Duncan´s only speciality - Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches - don´t bother is our advice! Tiny islands with coral reefs and coconut palms awaited us. The weather was sooo hot all you could do to cool off was swim which was gorgeous as the sea was like a warm bath. The sailing ... read more

First of all, thanks for all your messages, its good to see that the blog is being read and it works! (hope you are reading this Amanda-ed) We have spent the last couple of weeks in Peru, our next stop after Arequipa was a little town called Huachachina that exists purely for tourists because of the HUGE sanddunes surrounding it and the oasis that is set in the middle of the town- all abit mad! After all our bus journeys, we thought we deserved a bit of a break and spent 3 nights in this town chilling out at the pool in our hostel which was more like a hotel - me likes alot. We also had some fun trying to sandboard down the sand dunes surrounding the town, I thought I would be ok as ... read more