Happy New Year!

I’ve just celebrated the arrival of 2011 with fellow Maya Pedalists Eric and Julian, on the Honduran island of Utila.

Most backpackers flock to this caribbean idyll to enroll with one of the plethora of dive shops, …

Here’s the third and final instalment of Hat’s Guatemalan & Honduran adventures.

After a few days duelling 18 wheelers on the coastal highway (which, somewhat optimistically, I call ‘contextual riding’ or ‘underbelly touring’), we were keen to swap the frenetic …

Thanks for dropping by this site over the last year. And a special thanks to anyone who’s left comments. They’re always very much appreciated.

All the best for 2011 (-:

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Hat and I have been journeying along the Central American Caribbean coast in the runup to Christmas. Now though, her trip has come to an end and she’s winging her way back to the UK to spend a wintry Yule …

I’m jumping ahead of myself a little, but here’s a quick post on the arboretum at Tela, across the border in Honduras. The botanical gardens were originally set up as an experimental station, back in 1926, by the evil United …