Yes Mum, I'm still alive

Those few days in the Caribbean turned into just a few more, and then just a few more again. Having met up with previous travelling buddies ...

Panama managed not to live up to stereotypes. When I thought of Panama I thought of sweltering jungles, drugs, the Panama canal, sucking up ...

For me Costa Rica had a couple of problems. For me the most pressing was the cost of doing anything. Half day trips advertising "only...

Leaving El Salvador was hard in many ways. First of all I didn't want to leave. Secondly it was a mad dash for the border to get the las...

El Salvador turned out to be my favourite Central American country (so far that is!). There are many horrific stories and horrific reminders...

Honduras was a whole lot of mountains rising through misty clouds, random men wandering the streets with machetes and random letters being m...

From Flores we headed North to Belize. Here I found myself getting a 2 day visa whilst everyone else got a 30 day visa and I'd asked for...

After an unexpected detour to Guatemala City, an unmarked cab ride later took us to the bus-stop to Coban. Finally arriving at Coban after d...

So, I finally found the Zapatistas in Mexico. Bizarrely they were en route to Palenque . We drove through a military checkpoint which had...

Having spent a month learning Spanish I am now capable of conversing in 3 types of past tense, present and a form of "irreal" futu...

The answer is not if, but when. Rainy season surrounded by mountains and volcanos? It's gonna rain! And when it does, boy does it rain.....

I'm now in San Pedro on Lake Atitlan. I left Antigua after my 2 weeks of Spanish school and numerous “cultural activities” which predomi...

Well I'm still in Antigua, still in language school (for a few more days at least) and very much enjoying the local culture, and being l...

So yes, I'm at Spanish school in Antigua, and spending my holiday learning to conjugate verbs. When I got to Antigua the accent and spee...

So this is it, my last night in New Zealand, and I'm ready to head, not off to Chile, but to Guatemala. Yes I have perfect comic timing...

Quite a few days have been spent in Taupo. Some intentionally, some not so. When we arrived in Taupo we found it to be wet and windy, and ve...

Yes that's right I'm on the road again - or maybe I should say "we're" on the road? Having worked in Christchurch for ...

...and the sky is grey, but as autumn finally catches up with me (after several years), it's not California that I'm dreaming of but...

So Aussie boyfriend and my parents (who he's never met before) in a camper van for 2 weeks... Sounds like a recipe for disaster? Appa...

So yes, once again it's been ages since I last posted anything. And once again it's because I haven't really been doing anythin...