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“I can’t Belize the bus has broken down!”<br /><br />

Unbelizeable Chicken

Patrick Gatland
2006-04-05 09:24:34

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“I can’t Belize the bus has broken down!”

And so began our journey into beautiful Belize. With a name like Belize its hard not to try and insert it into every possible sentence. It has such a faraway, exotic sound to it, it really is hard to Belize you are in Belize when you finally arrive in what was once known as British Honduras (but got a kickarse name instead - for more information on the problems with Honduras see my earlier blogs).

In the usual fashion of our trip the rains had followed our journey and Belize was in flood. We originally were going to stop off at a border town and do some remarkably overpriced (but equally awe-inspiring) caving, but the rains had come and filled he caves and instead we spent our first morning in Belize squashed in the back of a mini-bus with an obnoxious Mexican man who ate fast food the whole way and made rude demands of the other passengers while talking to his ugly daughters. Yes, yes a tad harsh but when you have to spend 6 hours in front of a man burping fried chicken into the back of your neck while your face is
resting on your knees you’ll understand my distaste for this man and his nasty family.

On our way to Belize City the bus broke down which was welcome respite from the long journey. By the time we finally did arrive in Belize City we were tired and irritable and counting the seconds until we would be in anything that resembled a tropical location.

A wise United Nations employee once told me that whenever there are talks with Central America countries Belize is often left out (or lumped with the Caribbean countries) - much to their annoyance - because their official language is English rather than Spanish. However, once you cross the border from Guatemala to Belize you really do feel like you are in a whole different world. Not only is the local language English but it’s as though you’ve been dropped in the Bible Belt of the United State’s deep south.. ...

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