Sunshine At Last !

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Well after a few days of london weather the sun has decided to show its face in this part of the world and how the place I am staying in looks so much better when the sun is out.

I have decided to wait on here and hang round the beach until the end of the week when my boat leaves. I spend the day drinking the local rum on the beach with the locals and having a few funny cigarettes to pass the time. The palm trees make a welcome change here and provide some welcome relief from the sun which does seem a lot hotter than mexico. However, I have never come across a beach with so much insects in the sand and the sand here is more browny white than the crystal white of the Yucatan are of mexico.

Apparently, I have been walking all week on the worlds narrowest street here in Placencia accoring to the Guiness Book of Records and all the hotels and restaurants and bard are based off this which runs right through the village. It is very difficult to practice my spanish here because everyone is intent on speaking either english or garifuna so it will be nice when i eventually leave to get back on track with the old espanol again.

What more can i say about this place cos it is friendly, safe, relatively cheap, nice food and really is the sort of beach resort where you can get away from everything and maybe come across 3 or 4 people a day on the beaches here......just hope the americans dont start to invade the place soon and turn it into another bahamas with fast food joints, casinos, loud bars and niteclubs, etc.

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Photos

Placencia Village Beach
Life on the beach in Belize on a perfect day and some of the beach huts that line the seafront

Placencia Village Beach
Life on the beach in Belize on a perfect day and some of the beach huts that line the seafront

Placencia Village Beach
glorious beaches of placencia village which are virtually deserted at this time of year

Placencia Village Beach
Life on the beach in Belize on a perfect day with the calm carribean sea which is not as strong as the waves I experienced off the mexican coast

Placencia Village Beach
Life on the beach in Belize

this is how people live around here
this is a beach hut of which there are many in the village and mostly owned by the locals

The Worlds Narrowest Street
well here it is folks this is the famous worlds narrowest walkway in the loveley beach village in Belize

The Worlds Narrowest Street
well here it is folks this is the famous worlds narrowest walkway in the loveley beach village in Belize

hanging out with the locals
bit of a beach party with some local rum and funny cigarettes with some belizean locals

the view from my beach lodgings
this is the view I woke to every morning before the scorching sum came out....

Comments

[dunny]

nice beaches
hi de hi jase , great beaches any peaches ?? hows the greenery ? nice forrests don't forget 2 photo the local birdlife !!.... looks like your havin a great time so keep your pecker clean and the blogs coming.. ENJOY !!!

[Phil]

boiler ok.
Looks great out in Belize. Very chilled out-just what you need to forget about the London madhouse. I managed to fix the boiler myself. Remember me nagging you to bleed the radiators! Had to top up the water in the boiler. God knows how much money was wasted not doing this - and you being northern as well!

[David]

Que Chido
Que paso huey? Im in guadalajara enjoying the big city and the girls definitely out number the guys here. Their is alot of selction around here. So Belize looks amazing and I hope you are getting alot of good funny cigarrets in you. Nothing I think will compare to playa del carmen. Wet and wild. I got in a fight my last day and got my ass kicked by a bouncer, que loco huey. BIen viajar

[luis avila]

beautifulllllll paradise
can you send to my email for me to show my friends who are visiting in december? they want to buy beach front land there too. can you help me? cheers luis