La vida loca! Wished you were there? We did, so here we are on our big adventure! A year in central America, to make sense of this vida loca...

Utila - Rachel and Daniel develop fins

Thursday, 15 Jan 2009 | Views [1865]

We headed east along the northern Honduran coast.  Tela was supposed to be a laid back beach town, but turned out to be a down-at-heel scruffy place, with awful internet connections and dubious eateries.  It reminded us rather of Southend-on-Sea.  Even ... Read more >

Tags: crappy weather, lots of pretty fish and corals, scuba diving, utila

Rachel and Daniel have fun in Gracias!

Wednesday, 14 Jan 2009 | Views [3616]

After Copan Ruinas, Dan took a fancy to head into the highlands.   So off we went via Santa Rosa de Copan to the small colonial town of Gracias (full name Gracias a Dios) in the region of Lempira. We stayed in a very nice hotel and sat shivering in ... Read more >

Tags: forts, fun, gracias, kids

The Mayans Fried my Brain

Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009 | Views [3252]

We took a bus from Comayagua up winding mountain roads up to Lake Yojoa - the largest freshwater lake in Honduras. Its surrounded by jagged, green mountains, and the lake edge is dominated by wooded flood meadows, unlike anything we’d seen in our ... Read more >

Tags: copan, d&d brewery, lake yojoa, mayan ruins, nice coffee

The goosey what?

Sunday, 4 Jan 2009 | Views [1912]

First off, sorry for the delay since our last entry - we've been a bit off the map in the Maya Mountains for three weeks (story to come...). After a rather tortuous experience with a bus company agent (it took us forty minutes to purchase two tickets ... Read more >

Tags: comayagua, fast food, grid-lock, parties, tegucigalpa

Gallery: Honduras, Utila

Friday, 12 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Honduras, Copan Ruins

Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Honduras, Lago Yojoa

Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Honduras, Tegucigalpa and Comayagua

Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Honduras, Gracias

Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery

Bum`s the word! Rachel`s side gripe about knickers…

Wednesday, 26 Nov 2008 | Views [3359] | Comments [1]

Six months into our trip and I`ve stretched and split knickers from three countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua and lately Honduras. For some reason I don`t remember, I failed to sample what Panama had to offer. It`s a pants situation.  Now I want to know ... Read more >

Tags: knickers, travel