honduras

The bugs are quite literally feasting on me. They’re taking chunks out of my arms. Or at least I am cuz the bites itch so much! Don’t know if it’s the ants in my room, or if there’s something up in Sesesmil, but it’s really frustrating! Robin’s last day of […]

Bug Fodder

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged copan gvi honduras photography sesesmil welchez on 3 November 2005 by aventurafranji

Happy Birthday Pop! Much better day weather-wise, so the digging wasn’t going too badly. Guillermo came along and took some photos of us digging and working. You so can’t tell that we’re posing! Then he and one of the local guys took us up to the water tank for more […]

Photo Shoot

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged cafe viavia copan gvi honduras tunkul's welchez on 2 November 2005 by aventurafranji

Decided to go to work even though we didn’t have to. Unfortunately, there’s a hell of a lot of rain due to Hurricane Beta. Oscar showed us the next house that needs a trench. It seems the others weren’t challenging enough for us, so we’ve got a super duper long […]

Rain, Rain, Rain

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged cafe viavia copan gvi honduras photography sesesmil welchez on 1 November 2005 by aventurafranji

It’s raining, it’s pouring, and we get a puncture on our way up to work. Luckily, it’s incredibly easy to change the tyre on a tuk-tuk, so we were only delayed by about 10 minutes. Work wasn’t too bad cuz the rain let up a bit. Oscar came over to […]

Punctura

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged copan gvi honduras photography sesesmil on 31 October 2005 by aventurafranji

Tried once again to upload my photos and once again I was unsuccessful. Had breakfast in Casa de Todo: pancakes with Maple Syrup! Went to Café Welchez after lunch to meet Robin, Jimmy and Lauren cuz we had organized going to the cinema in Hacienda El Jaral, which is about […]

Monster In Law

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged casa de todo cinema copan hacienda el jaral honduras photography welchez on 30 October 2005 by aventurafranji

Harry Potter was on TV when I left the house this morning: didn’t want to drag myself away! Weekends are very slow here, and it was especially quiet today for some reason unknown to us. I tried to upload photos onto the website, but the internet crashed every time. Robin […]

Cheap Cuba Libres

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged copan cuba libre honduras party photography tunkul's welchez on 29 October 2005 by aventurafranji

Woke up at 5:45am, like I do every morning and lay in bed until 6:15am. My hands have a habit of seizing up while I’m asleep and I use this time to try to stretch them back into their proper position. Fucking hurts. My muscles are getting used to the […]

My Achy Breaky Hands

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged cafe viavia coffee copan gvi honduras photography sesesmil tunkul's on 28 October 2005 by aventurafranji

Had pancakes for breakfast. Yum. Quite cold today, by Honduran standards at least. All the locals are wrapped up in jumpers and scarves. Oscar set us to work finishing a trench on a house the locals started. We reckon they reached the tree roots and decided to pass the buck. […]

Sunbathing

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged camino maya casa de todo coffee copan gvi honduras photography sesesmil swimming on 27 October 2005 by aventurafranji

Short day at the office. Got up the mountain to find my very big trench being filled in and another being dug next to it, to get around the huge boulder. We still managed to finish it quickly, and Oscar let us leave early, but we had to wait ages […]

Frangipani Plant

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged cafe viavia copan enchanted wings butterfly house frangipani gvi honduras orchid house photography sesesmil on 26 October 2005 by aventurafranji

So work isn’t too bad. We have a taxi that drives us up to the village at 7am, so we’re there by 7:30am. Then we work until around 12noon, then wait for a pickup to drive by and take us back to Copan. Sometimes you wait five minutes, sometimes forty […]

The Rock Is My Nemesis

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 Horses and tagged copan gvi honduras horse riding photography sesesmil on 25 October 2005 by aventurafranji

First day digging trenches. First day riding in the back of a pickup. It was bloody hard work and I’ve got two blisters already, but I enjoyed it. Not sure how I’ll feel after four weeks but it’s good at the moment! There’s a guy who we’ve affectionately nicknamed “The […]

Working

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged casa de todo copan gvi honduras macaw mountain photography sesesmil on 24 October 2005 by aventurafranji

Whiled away my morning watching Mighty Ducks 3 and Man on Fire. Mmm…Denzel Washington. Robin and I went to find somewhere serving breakfast, but everywhere starts serving lunch by 11.30am here. We both felt kinda bad cuz in Copan the host family makes meals for you everyday, but in Antigua […]

Films

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged copan films honduras licuado liquado tunkul's welchez on 23 October 2005 by aventurafranji

Woke up this morning to find some bug has basically walked along my leg and bitten me seven times. Four of them are in a straight line. Spent two and a half hours updating my weblog and then went to Café Welchez and read and listened to my MP3 player. […]

Slow Day

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged copan honduras photography tuk tuk tunkul's welchez on 22 October 2005 by aventurafranji

I decided to have a change of scene today and sat in the very pretty garden at Casa de Todo (the internet café/souvenir shop/café/launderette) to do my homework. At school I told Karla about Toy Story, then we did more work on pronouns, and then moved onto the preterite tense […]

Gecko In My Room/Ramon

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged cafe viavia camino maya casa de todo copan gecko guacamaya honduras photography spanish school tunkul's welchez on 21 October 2005 by aventurafranji

I’m going to Agua Caliente (natural hot springs up in the mountains) today with people from the school, so no swimming this morning. And half an hour less Spanish cuz we have to leave at 5pm. Spent the morning feeling very lonely and fed up. I feel so pathetic cuz […]

Emotional Rollercoaster/Agua Caliente

This entry was posted in Honduras Honduras and Guatemala 2005 and tagged agua caliente copan guacamaya gvi honduras spanish school welchez on 20 October 2005 by aventurafranji