Day 20 Roatan

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We left our hotel at 5.15am to catch a chicken bus from the garage around the corner. We got off the bus at La Ceiba & took a couple of taxis to the ferry terminal. I had pancakes for breaki at the cafe there. We were warned that bottles & knives were not allowed in hand luggage. But guess what Uffe tried to take on in his carry on bag?, a bottle of Rum & a rather large knife! This bothered me because I roomed with him occasionally. Since the group had been enlarged he had isolated himself, spending literally hours in net cafes & texting home. I figured he was very depressed & home sick. Either way he was depressing to be around. There are pros & cons to group travel, but on the whole it's good value for single travellers because there are no single supplements. I manuevered in such a way to insure he was not my roomate during Christmas break on Roatan. I stayed on deck for the ferry crossing, which took about 2 hours.

On the island we got a van to the Seagrape Plantation Resort in the West End. The rooms were good with aircon, tv, dive shop, swimming pool & best of all a fridge to keep your booze chilled. It was good to have this at Christmas. We were only a 5 minute walk from West End village, which had a nice intimate cove fringed with palm trees. It low key bars, dive shops, curio/tshirt shops restaurants & cheap water taxis to other parts of the island. In short it was perfect. Prices on the island for everything was more expenxive than the mainland but I discovered it was a Duty Free Zone & I bought some good wine in Duty free shop for Christmas, a lot of beer.

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