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August 2016 National Geographic by Glenn Hughes Oceanic whitetips, famous for attacking shipwrecked sailors, once ruled the seas. Now they’re nearly gone. They’ve been decimated as bycatch in longline commercial fishing as they travel mostly in the top of the … Continue reading →

BAY ISLANDS OF HONDURAS I bussed back down to Placentia and caught the ferry to Porto Ordaz, Honduras and then shared a taxi with 3 others through San Pedro Sula to La Ceiba, an unsavory city on the Caribbean coast. … Continue reading →

Belize February 2011 BELIZE CITY Belize City (pop 70,800), the capital, is a shabby, run down place with a large black population. I hitched a ride into town with an American living there doing research on coral. Hurricanes had recently … Continue reading →

Costa Rica January 2011 We flew from David, Panama to Alajuela, the international airport of San Jose, Costa Rica. I was required by the airline, in order to board the flight, to purchase an exit ticket out of Costa Rica, … Continue reading →

PANAMA CITY We then flew to Panama City with plans to travel north through Panama and Costa Rica before Roberta flies home. We were advised to buy exit tickets (this time cheap bus tickets) in order to get onto the … Continue reading →

GRENADA We then spent 2 days on the bus going through the rest of Honduras and most of Nicaragua ending in Grenada. It has the best colonial architecture in the country but doesn´t compare to Antigua. We walked around lots … Continue reading →

COPAN We took a bus from Antigua, Guatemala across the border into Honduras to visit the most southerly Mayan ruins at Copan. Without the huge pyramids of Tikal, Copan, once home to 27,000, has some wonderful features. Most pyramids had … Continue reading →

Guatamala Nov 2010 GUATEMALA CITY. I arrived on November 15 and spent 2 days there. With 2 million people, it is a big dirty place. There are guards in every store and fast food place – the ones in the … Continue reading →

Elections in Kazakhstan – No choice Democracy in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is a managed affair, without clear rules of succession. Ever since communist bosses morphed into democrats after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, they have polished a … Continue reading →

At boiling point. The country is stable, but it will not be easy to keep it that way Feb 6th 2016 Economist It is sometimes dubbed “the Hashemite Kingdom of Boredom”. That may not be very flattering. But while Jordan … Continue reading →