Just resurfaced from a week spent on Roatan which is one of the Bay Islands set in the Caribbean off the coast of Honduras.
Got there via a 16 hour bus journey from Antigua back down to La Ceiba in Honduras (we got burger king as part of the meal service on the bus!!) and then after a very hot sweaty night in unpleasant La Ceiba we got the ferry out to La Ceiba. It´s funny how the length of those bus journeys never seems to daunt us but by the time we got off (having started at 3 am) you feel like you´ve done a Trans-Atlantic flight! No fights yet, but I think we´ve both just learned to be quiet after those journeys cause the littlest thing is the biggest challenge...especially after
you get off the bus and attacked by the hoards of taxi drivers trying to rip you off!So we chose to go to Roatan despite the fact that every other backpacker seems to go to Utila...Mr Paul O´Connor worked in Roatan a couple of years ago and sang its praises so that was good enough for us.
After 2 weeks of non-beach in Guatemala, by the time we got to our hostel in West End Roatan, the first peek of the Caribbean was as sweet as ever! Considering the beach was right in front of our hostel, a hammock & sweet porch right outside and a bar with the perfect sun-set and piña coladas right in front on the beach, what else d´ya need, eh?
The Bay Islands are all about diving so signed up on Monday morning for our Advanced Dive Courses. I did one dive Monday morning and nearly passed out with the pain so 1 hilarious trip to a cowboy doctor later, I was forbidden from diving for the week due to an ear infection. So while Dave headed off I was resigned to swimming the beautiful calm water, reading books, hammock swinging & cooking food (eating out here was seriously expensive, so considering we could eat like kings
in Guatemala for about 2 yo-yo´s, the beanie boyfriend ordered that if I wanted to continue sipping Piña Coladas, some restraint on the food expenditure front was required!).So, considering we were never supposed to go to Honduras at all, 5 days turned in to a week and even at that we found it hard to leave. We had a couple of hilarious nights drinking the local rum & coke down on the pier (I haven´t had a glass of wine in 2 months!!). We met a guy from Carlow there who had visited on his way to Panama 16 months ago and he´s still there...lots of people like that out there.So the Bay Islands are definitely a recommendation, thumbs up and will be going back!
Next stop Grenada, Nicaragua...2 days of travel, about 17 buses, taxis and lots of dodgy movies on the bus!
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