Therefore I Travel

January 2007 in Mexico and Central America

Friday, January 26, 2007

Getting to know the place


I'm still on the Roatan off the northern coast, but I'll be leaving in a day or two. I have a plane ticket from Le Ceiba to Mexico City on the 30th, and soon I'll reunite with a bunch of friends. I really can see myself living on this Island. You have a nice beach, roads are made of sand, and you have a lot of new people all the time. I pretty much know majority of restaurants in here, all the bars, and many people that work at these places. What is appealing to me in here is that you diving instractor might be French, then you go to the restaurant and the weitress is Dutch, and whereever you go you have this huge diversity. Village that I'm staying at is pretty small around 6000 people or fewer but it's really great.

I've also met in here Will from UK. They guy is 27 years old and he used to be a CPA in London working for Ernst & Young, and UBS. He's a really sharp guy, but he quit his job when he realized that "he doesn't give a fuck" about all this. Then he purchased a little bit of land in here and opened a store with scuba equipment and also works as a diving instructor. Life seems good, not to stressful, and you have nice people around you. What else do you need?

I had some problems in here for a while. First the ear infection, but after few days it was OK. Then I lost my ATM card or rather left it in the ATM machine. I tried to recover it but I wasn't able to. Then I had to cancel my first plane ticket to Mexico City since STA wasn't able to provide me with an eticket nor make it available for pickup at the airport. Finally, yeasterday I was in the water all day long practicing rescue scenarios, and looking for missing divers with much success. No problems. Once we were done, I went back to the water for a swim and after a minute or two I felt a burning on my wrist. I figured I got stinged or something, and apparently I was right. It was a sea wasp which is supposingly related to Portugese Man-O-War which can be deadly. I put some vinegar over it and now it looks fine.

Well, to wrap look at this article, and ask yourself if you can keep your cool equally well: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6289489.stm

1 Comments:

  • At 10:18 PM, Blogger Anne said…

    Hey Peter,
    What's happening to u???
    Come back.. This is not paradise island at all!
    ;-)

     

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