Caye Caulker (Belize)

Ola all!

Hum, you might be wondering why it's taking us so long to post. The thing is that the photos take a long time to upload and require us being in a cybercafe with fast internet. However, disaster struck yesterday and we have lost the photos on the memory card - I'm sure you all can do without seeing photos of us in lovely beaches and hammocks!

So here is a more detailed posting on what happened since NY. We flew to Belize City and immediately proceeded to take a boat to Caye Caulker, one of the islands in the north. Belize City is not a nice place and we thought we could do with some days of proper relaxation after NY. The little island is beautiful and really close to the second biggest barrier reef in the world. We rented the cabana you can see in the photo, which included a bathroom with hot water, a small cooking space, bicycles and hammock for just 13 pounds a day! Not bad, eh? As you can see life in Caye Caulker was tough going :-) We spent four days there. I went on a snorkeling trip and befriended some sting rays: there were about 15 of them, just "flying" under us in circles, it was so hypnotic to look at them from above... And yes, I want one, one day... I also meet a couple of morays but don't worry, I don't want one of them!

Bye for now,

Vania

We are OK!!

Hi all,

After all our promises of posting messages regularly we were faced with a series of places where internet cafes closed too early for our current lifestyle. No, it's not that we were getting up too late, it's more that we've been travelling a lot and arriving at places late. Sorry...

This is a quick post just to let you know that we are OK. We've been keeping an eye on hurricane Dean the whole week and fortunatelly moved from northern Belize well before it hit. We were fortunate to visit those beautifull islands at the begining of our trip and have since been to Tikal (Guatemala), Dangriga, Tobacco Key and Punta Gorda (southern Belize) and arrived yesterday in Tela (Honduras). Tomorrow we move on to Roatan where we'll do a diving course and hopefully stay put for long enough to update the blog properly. We feel very lucky that we could move away from the hurricane but unfortunately so many people got caught...

Until our next post,

Vania and Tom

NY!! (USA)

WOW! NY!! You've seen it so many times in films that you recognise every corner of it! We could definitely live there for a couple of years, it has such a buzz! Believe it or not, the very first morning we were there, we got up at 6.30 am and went for a run across Central Park. Well, it wasn't completely planned like that, jetlag can do funny things to you. Initially we were supposed to stay for 5 days but we decided to prolong our stay for 3 days more. This was due to three main reasons:

- too many good friends to see (the ex-lymph dev girls (Suse, Liz and Ruth) and the ex/HSBC boys (Tom, James and Rahul) and also Susanna and Will : it was great to see some of you again and to meet some of you, thanks for taking such good care of us.










- too many cool things to do: we visited all the usual places, did a boat trip round Manhattan, overloaded on museums and went to see Avenue Q (naughty but highly recommended). Oh, and visited plenty of bars!

-HP7! It was hard for Vania to put the book down, but finally she knows how the Harry Potter adventures finish. It was the perfect book for the long flight in plus loads of mid-afternoon breaks in Central Park.

We even made it to a beautiful beach just 1h from NY called Ocean Beach! Check out the babes!!

We left NY with regret although were quite pleased to have slept through the tornado!
We are now in Belize...........

Bye for now,

Vania and Tom