Our New Years Eve flights went according to plan and we arrived at our hostel in Cartagena at around 4.30 pm on New Years Eve to find Sara waiting for us! We barely had enough time to eat and shower before we headed out for NYE celebrations. Sara had already made plans for us to see the new year in at a beach party 50 km away from Cartagena. We had arranged a bus to take us there and one to collect us at midday the following day. The party was good fun, although ...

We took a Tica bus from Managua, Granada to San Jose, Costa Rica which meant we didnt have to endure another horrid border crossing on our own. It was a breeze going through Nicaragaua as the bus driver sorted out all our immigration papers. Costa Rica entry was a little more of a pain, they insisted everyone unlaod all their baggage and line it up on a table in the sweltering heat. This would have been easier to accept if they had actually checked our bags but i...

Our journey from hell finally ended when we arrived in San Pedro Sula at 6pm that night, 4 hours later than schedule. We had to quickly grab all our things and rush over to the Tica bus terminal to try and get a ticket to Nicaragua the following morning at 5am. As I expected, we got to the ticket office minutes after it closed. Not sure what the hell we were gonna do or if we´d ever make it out of Honduras alive we had no other choice than to stay the night and ...

We arrived the other end in Livingston, Guatemala safely after the boat ride with the high guy and the arrogant guy. As soon as we climbed off of the boat we had locals trying to help us with our luggage and sell us a tour so I told them all to do one (as I would!) We went to immigration to have our passports stamped and a local guy followed us trying to get us on a boat tour of the Rio Dulce. We wanted to do one before heading to Honduras anyway so decided to g...

Ok, Apologies if you are still sat here next week reading through this blog. As Faye quite rightly pointed out I am a lazy biatch but I also have been enjoying Mexico far too much to sit in front of a computer writing about it! So last Tuesday we left Mexico City to take a bus east to Oaxaca. We were like two little lost sheep at the bus station trying to work out how and where to buy our bus tickets. Call me silly, but i just assumed everything in the world wou...