The last 5 days have been pretty amazing. A mix of staying in some fabulous luxurious and historic locations, with camping. Being with family, meeting friends and new extended family. None of this was anticipated or planned for this year. The only downside being the news, a couple of days…
Jen mentioned the recovery of Poki from home Saturday morning. Rob, the mechanic from Gumtree, who kindly rushed to our assistance with a recovery vehicle and trailer, carted Poki back to the workshop. I couldn’t get her started again after returning from the worship Friday afternoon. Rob was ultimately successful…
Having been in the U.K. for 7 weeks, Poki has just caught up with us, 2 days later than scheduled. We collected her from Southampton Docks last Monday afternoon. This turned out to be a very simple procedure. Much to our extreme delight and after weeks of worrying, she is…
Friday 12th June. It’s lovely to be home again. That is, in our “other” home, in the UK. While it’s clouding over now it’s been a glorious day, since we arose at midday…:) The journey to get here from Veracruz in Mexico, was almost flawless in execution. Though much more expensive…
Thursday, 4th June: We have the luxury of 2 bedrooms in our apartment. The decision was made to sleep in the back bedroom. We have an abundance of ceiling fans and air conditioning units in both bedrooms. Great, we thought. However, the fans on full speed clonk and rattle and…
it was soooo good to be driving Poki again. How you must wish you had experienced driving a 110 TD5 Defender. I can hear you gnashing your teeth and flailing your backs with birch bough’s, in frustration…:) Back to reality…:). Yesterdays drive from just outside Coatzacoalcos was largely uneventful. However,…
Life had been carrying on in our bubble routine. Monday, 25th was different, though. We were lazily eating our porridge, in a state of semi undress, when there was a knock on our door. Sarah, somewhat agitated. “We’re going into the village in 5 minutes to get certificates from the…
It’s 6pm on Saturday 23rd and while Jen is preparing dinner from our well stocked larder and fridge. I’m sitting in front of the wide opened windows listening to thunder rolling around the volcano’s on the opposite side of a grey lake Atitlan. It’s getting darker, with heavy cumulus clouds…
We have now been here for 55 days and as Dennis has mentioned the rainy season is starting to set in. On Friday evening and for most of the night, we had torrential rain. Accompanying it, a plague of flying ants. Despite shutting the windows, we were inundated with them.…
It’s now Tuesday 5th May and at last the rains have started. For the last week or so, the afternoons have clouded over and the occasional thunder storm brewed, but fizzled, with little or no rain. Temperatures remain in the mid to low 20’s and the days are idyllic. Every…