Friday 11^th January – Puerto Cortes, Honduras.

Brilliant day! Honduras (formerly Spanish Honduras) definitely the poor relation after Belize (formerly British Honduras).

Much evidence of poverty with the roadside dwellings both in towns and villages. Indeed the reason the journey to Copan and back took so long is because of the pot holes in the roads and lack of dual carriageways.

The city of San Pedro Sula is a big traffic jam, taking and hour and a half to cross!!  
 

Copan was fabulous – able to walk right up to and even climb over the structures.

        Favourite bar name. The Ashworths get everywhere!!

Had an extra treat – little“tut tut” taxis took us from the site to a hotel for lunch, going really quickly over cobblestoned roads! – A new experience…

                                            Taxi over cobblestones a real treat!!
 

The hieroglyphic stairway at Copan

One of the many images king 18 rabbitt had done of himself

 

Despite travelling for 13 hours, we managed to dance to Status Quo and Queen music at the late night party. We then slept like logs!!

Saturday 12^th January – Day at Sea.

Well, Voyages of discovery have replied to our complaint via Kay but have ignored the content and just said what they wanted to say. We have drafted a reply to Kay asking her to feedback on our behalf and are copying Eddie (the Hotel Director) in so at least he understands our point.

Went to “when the Spanish met the Incas” lecture… turns out smallpox and civil war ended hundreds of years of Inca empire in a remarkably short time.

Did the tour of the bridge – really interesting – found out why the ship moves around so much. The stabilisers only work when the ship is heading directly into the waves! Apparently they don’t help with pitching, rolling or tossing – we can vouch for that!

 

 

The Bridge was much bigger than we expected!

 

 

 

Captain Neil showed us his Sextant!!

Went to the evening entertainment show “Broadway Ballards” and finally were quite impressed. They are now using handheld microphones wherever possible so the headsets which didn’t work have been done away with.