Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 1748

On Sunday 29h April we started our long journey to La Ceiba on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, right the other side of the country. We caught a bus to a town nearby to Leon and then another bus to El Guasale, the border town. From there we got bicycle taxis to take us the 3km to the actual border post where we spent 45 minutes arguing with the money changing sharks and still didn’t get a very good deal. Luckily we didn't need to change a lot. Then very conveniently a bus was leaving in 20 minutes to Tegucigalpa, the capital. We got that bus to drop us off at the airport so we could check out times and prices of flights to La Ceiba the next day. And we totally spawned it, because ... read more

The last leg of this 28990 mile trip (I have this figure memorised because I bought a 29,000 mile ticket - 11 more miles and I would have had to buy a ridiculously expensive 39,000 mile ticket!). For all those of you that have managed to stick through my previously crazy long blogs, please take the time to pat yourself on the back. I recently had the chance to look back at them and can only apologise for my verbal diarrhea. I'll try and keep this one nice and short for two reasons: 1) You've probably got better things to be getting on with this bank holiday 2) I'll be home in two weeks to bore you in person. All beware the dreaded scrapbook that I'll be putting together. Having spent 6 weeks training as ... read more

This was not the original title of the blog... it was going to be something like, Bearded Monkey, Monkey Hut and Monkey attacks, but upon being given a brochure of a resturant with this as it´s slogan I had to change the title. Give me your ideas of what you think it might mean... Frank and Dody and i have ours. So I headed to Granada and spent 3 days lazing around in the hostel, The Bearded Monkey. I did walk around the city, sit in the park and take a lovely boat tour of the islands in which I saw some great monkeys, who were fed by the other boat drivers and accounted for why they were so fearless and came so close to us. But really, the thing you come to Granada to ... read more

Je vous écris présentement de l'avion. Viva la technologie! Bien sûr, je ne suis pas connectée à Internet :P C'est interdit dans les airs. Malgré la fatigue et la solitude, je suis sereine. Je m'élance tête devant vers l'Inconnu. J'arriverai bientôt en Guadeloupe! Qui l'eût cru? Le vol est seulement de 4h49. L'air est bon dans l'engin jusqu'à maintenant...ben bonne affaire! En plus, j'ai trois bancs à moi toute seule et j'ai un hublot à ma droite. Yé! À mes côtés s'étend notre Bonne Mère la Terre (en fait, 35 000 mètres sous moi). C'est toujours curieux de voir la division des terres, carrelages aux multiples couleurs. Hop! Je suis au dessus de l'eau maintenant! C'était très hot à l'envolée...j'ai pu voir d'en haut tout un tas de repères montréalais. L'immense cimetière Notre-dame, le complexe ... read more

Excellente communication avec le Réseau du capitaine ce matin; Position : 19.47 N et 070.18 W (ce qui les situe à l'égalité de Cabarete en République Dominicainie) Vent : SSE à 120 degrés (dans le nez) de 13 noeuds ; Cap : 118 degrés; Mer : 3 à 5 pieds de l'Est; Vitesse : 4.3 noeuds Très inconfortable la nuit dernière. Comme il était prévu, des vents de face de 18 à 20 noeuds étaient présents. Le vent diminue tout au cours de la journée et la mer devrait réduire également pour les 3 prochains jours. Prochain contact à 16 heures aujourd'hui sur la fréquence 14.118 Nycole... read more