outtheresomewhere...

… don’t fix it. It’s advice I intend to heed.
I had plans for this trip once but they’re rapidly disappearing. El Salvador, then Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and onwards to South America. But I’m not sure many (or any) of them are going to materialise. The reason for this is that I’ve been in […]

An incredible set of Mayan ruins that sit right in the middle of the Guatemalan rainforest. The air’s humid, parakeets and toucans circle above and the encroaching jungle feels like it wants to reclaim the place. It’s great. The sort of place that leaves you speechless. Well you’d think so, wouldn’t you? I’ve just climbed […]

This is from the Radisson Fort George’s welcoming booklet in Belize City.
In my opinion, the penultimate sentence is one of the finest in the entire history of written English.

I’ve added a couple of pages about some of my favourite bits of Belize here:
Caye Caulker
Tobacco Caye
More Photos Of Belize

Caye Caulker with its ‘Go Slow’ ethos: the only place I’ve ever visited that derives a perfectly good philosophy from its road signs.
Creole English: Restaurants called stuff like ‘Di Place Fo Go Fi Di Chikkin’.
George, one of the regulars at Tobacco Caye’s only bar. The day after Barack Obama’s election he told me the single […]