The Jetsons

Sadly, and yet with contentment and a sense of accomplishment, we're on the final stretch! Nevertheless, we thought we'd share our final musings of our journey through Belize and Mexico, and then homeward bound via Texas, London and Croatia. From Guatemala, we set off on a shorter yet adventure filled bus ride to the town of San Ignacio (known locally as Cayo) in Belize. On entering Belize, the immigration officer picked up our passports to stamp them, noted our home country on the cover, set them back down on the counter and turned up his little stereo system playing behind his desk. He said to us, "You know who this is?". By this stage we had wizened up, since we had heard this voice all over Central America wherever reggae was loved - "Lucky Dube!" we ... read more

This one is a bit of fun for anyone who enjoys an ice cold beer. The following beer journal was compiled during our trip to Brazil, Central America and Mexico. All scores are rated from 1 to 10 (with 10 being the highest) and are, of course, purely subjective. Naturally, there is really no such thing as a 10 allowing the quest for the perfect beer to continue. Enjoy and salute! ... read more

Hola Everyone! David here. Time is really flying but our travels remain full of fun, challenges and many amazing experiences, and despite some growing home sickness and missing our families and friends, we're both in good shape. In this instalment of our travel blog I'll provide a taste of our adventures to, and on, both the Corn and the Bay Islands. I'll start with the Corn Islands ( Las Islas del Maíz) which are essentially two very small islands (Big Corn & Little Corn) 70km off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, originally used as a safe haven for pirates when they still plundered the Caribbean. The Corns as they are referred to have some what of a mystique amongst travellers and are certainly not as well known or travelled as most of the other Central American ... read more

Hi everyone, it's Liesel here. Your comments and messages have been such fun to read - thank you!! We have definitely lulled into tropical time - the days all blurring into each other, helped along by the soft steady rhythm of the ocean. We spent three weeks in Costa Rica - a beautiful country known for its lush, green vegetation and cloud forests, eco-tourism, volcanoes and beaches. The local greeting "Pura Vida" literally translates as 'Pure Life'. We flew from Sao Paulo via Lima to San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica, on the 19th June. Despite some mild anxiety that the airline we were flying on had crashed a month previously in Honduras, everything went pretty smoothly. We did have a bit of a bag drama as we found out that my backpack had ... read more

Our travel day to Rio was a rainy one (we've been so lucky with the weather!) and so donned in our ponchos we caught the ferry from Ilha Grande back to Angra dos Reis. We chose to travel via 'Fast Connection' to Rio - which was basically a mini-van jammed to the rafters with people and luggage not too dissimilar from our very own taxis back home. However, our taxi had the added luxury of an on-board TV screen. The driver slotted in his favourite DVD (of an overweight, sweaty guy singing in Portuguese who looked like he was about to drop dead from a heart attack any second), pumped up the volume, and we were off. After a couple of hours, we sidled into Rio at the mercy of our increasingly erratic driver, and were ... read more