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Published: January 20th 2009
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I am travelling to Placencia with a dreadlocked Finnish dude named Topi, he attracts the local's attentions for his rasta looks, quite aggressive and demanding guy but we got along well,we lived a lazy life whilst in Placencia, hammocking, drinking, chilling..
We have to stop in Belmopan to wait for more passengers to Dangriga, the driver made an announcement in the microphone, saying this is a straight bus to Belmopan, if you need to stop in between leave the bus now!!, Quite funny the way he said it. At Belmopan, few more tourists went onboard, Topi bought us lunches while i save our seats, he bought chicken tamales which i loved he threw out his, claiming it is vile and nearly made him throw up, these Finns dont know what good food is. We finally arrived in Dangriga, raining a bit we have to wait it out there for the 430pm bus to Placencia, we had lunch at a nearby restaurant and we got feasted on by sandflies! We are riddled with bites in just a few minutes and weve been scratching the whole day. The bus finally left, raining hard once again, arriving at sundown, in Placencia, it was
dark and we walked to try and find an accomodation, Lydia's recommended by LP is full so a guy on the boardwalk recommended an apartment for only 80 belizean dollars a night($40), owned by Stan a dude from LA, it was fine with toilet, kitchen and fridge and beds for 4 people!! I think it was good deal. Belize is a bit expensive but we decided to wait it out here until Friday, 4 days from now to hop on the boat to Honduras, i decided to skip Livingston, Guatemala, i am ready for a new country. We went out to buy groceries to cook.
We got back and we cant get in the room the key got stuck and took 2 hours for Stan to fix it, the lock had been corroded by the sea salt. We had a quick meal that night of cup a soup noodles as we are tired and cant be bothered to go out, it was raining hard and the streets are flooded. The next morning we cooked omelette for breakfast then we decided to stay until Friday and just chill here and do nothing, went to the beach, it was not spectacular
but quiet and good to swim in, the water is calm. This place is so laid back! We met the Dutch couple from Caye Caulker at the beach. Went back to the apartment after the beach and had lunch of fuits and yoghurt and chilled out for a bit.
That night we decided after the rains had passed to find a wifi restaurant to keep up with emails, Topi has his computer with him, it was raining again so we decided to go to the Secret garden restaurant, quite nice gourmet food, but not enough for the both of us, and quite expensive!! We left after internetting and looked for some more food, we found a shack with good take out food, and had some more to eat. As we were walking back, Topi almost stepped on a small snake, good thing i saw it coming across the road, did not bothered him a bit but freaked me out. back at the apartment we are renting, chilled until we fell asleep. rained terribly the whole night and morning. We slept in as there was nothing to do anyway when it is raining. We made fruit breakfast then later had
an omelette for lunch, trying to supplement with chicken wings from the local shack from last night i went to buy some but they dont have it until later. We have 4 eggs remaining and Topi dropped the other 2 so we made do with 2 eggs between 2 hungry men!
Went to the beach for a walk in the afternoon with Topi, we stopped at the Barefoot bar for drinks and we met the South African couple Topi had met before, they are quite cool and we hang out with them on the beach. Topi met a gorgeous local girl named Abi, beautiful dark skin and all, what did she see in him!!!?? Anyway we all went back to our shack, after dinner and had a few more drinks and the South Africans left and Abi stayed in, i was prepared for a rough night of shagging from the 2 thank god it did not happen.
Next morning got the ferry ticket to Honduras sorted out and went to swim in the ocean and walked the beach towards the pier. Sandflies had been eating us alive especially Topi and they are relentless, my body is covered with
bites, they are everywhere in the beach.
On our last night here a big storm hit it was like a squall, gone quickly but brought lots of rain and wind, knocked out and broke the plastic table outside out room,i thought to myself the boat might not run the next day, hoping for the best. Woke up to a cloudy day but no more rain or wind, and the boat will be leaving for Honduras, yay!!
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