Blogs from La Ceiba, Northern, Honduras, Central America Caribbean

Jan 3 ... Let's see week in review. Bea and I went Roaton Friday afternoon after class. It's was about an hour and half boat ride and quite rough, lots of kids were throwing up. When we got there the first hostel we went to was full and the second one had only 2 beds left so we snatched them up. We went out for an amazing BBQ seafood dinner. Saturday we had a massive breaky and just relaxed drinking coffee then we went on a walk from west end to west bay. It was a nice walk on the beach. We stopped to have lunch along the way. When we got back I went snorkeling a bit in half moon bay. At night we again had a delicious dinner at a place that was owned ... read more

Dec 25- Jan 3 Well it's been almost ten days since my last entry. Lest see. Xmas was weird. We finally had some meat and decent food. Then Alexandra left with the kids so the girls and I hung out on the porch till midnight when there was a massive flux of fireworks set off. It was crazy lasted ages too. The day after Xmas I walked around with Andrea and Kayle to the mall and then to the Dole park just trying to kill time, very slow weekends here. Let's see classes are decent Spanish is very hard though it's gonna take me much longer than I thought to learn it. I'm pretty slow. And hate studying Haha. My teacher was sick one day so I have a extra day at the end of my ... read more

Learning Spanish in Honduras Dec13-25 Alright lets see. I will try and catch up the past almost 2 weeks briefly. I left the states this time as most, full of emotions. "why am I leaving, cannt I have normal life and live for the weekends like most people, being sad saying by to mom and dad." I am normally reassure myself with in the first day or so, generally by surfing, meeting people, doing some fun activity and say "yes this is why I do what I do and love my life". However this time around it was a bit rougher. My first day of Spanish classes it rained most of the day, as we walked around to have a city tour. I was pretty disappointed by the beach and the city. I started freaking out, ... read more

It´s 00.45 and we have been awake since 10.00 yesterday, but the day isnt over yet because now we have to get a bus to Belize City. Checking our travel book makes it clear NOTHING TO DO IN BELIZE, we get on the bus, sleep a few hours an wake up at the Mexican Belize Border. After not being checked because the immigration officers were too lazy and having our passports stamped, its time to head on to belize city. As we arrive somewhere around 6 in the morning it becomes clear: we dont want to be here, the city is a collection of little houses, most of wich look like they are inhabited by squatters, this'plus advice by fellow travellers that we could better just move on from there inspires tge decision to get a ... read more

So Walt and I started off on our journey Sunday morning. We decided not to trust the unreliable car that JUST got back from the mechanic, and instead decided to bus it. Mike and Mavis were also taking that bus from Tegucigalpa to La Ceiba as they were catching the ferry to Roatan, so it was nice. We head over to the Hedman Alas office Saturday afternoon and purchased the tickets for Sunday. Hedman Alas is a first class bus line that has great comfy and reclining seats as well as a bathroom on board, AC and TVs showing movies. Plues you get a little snack too. It cost us about $25 per person for the 7 hour bus ride. Totally worth it to travel in comfort. The bus went to San Pedro Sula and then ... read more

Took the family to Bay Islands and to the mainland Honduras. Spent some great time with family there.... read more

The next day, after our shopping extravaganza we just spent a lazy day in La Ceiba. We walked to the opposite end of town that we had been in the previous day. We went all the way to the beach... about 30 mins walk through the centre of town and along to the nightclub district, but of course nothing was open except a few small shops. We had brought our salami sandwiches with us for lunch and bought some beers at a little comedor and ate. At one point a big truck pulled up next to the shop and it was full of gas cylinders, not sure if they were full or empty, im assuming full because a guy was sitting on top with a giant shotgun! not the safest idea in the world, one accident ... read more

La Ceiba Friday 13th August It’s another 6 a.m. start and a long day’s travelling ahead as we head towards La Ceiba in Honduras. The first stage is a boat we’ve hired to take us from Livingston to Puerto Barrios. Gemma seems worried that we may get delayed somewhere along the way and is immediately concerned when the first thing our driver does is divert to get fuel. There’s one more stop to pick up another passenger with this morning’s catch and then our boat is speeding towards Puerto Barrios. Everything is running smoothly as at Puerto Barrios a minibus is waiting to take us to Honduras. We reach the border between Guatemala and Honduras within 40 minutes and again there are no real delays in getting across. There does seem to be an unusually large ... read more