Travel Tales - Wednesday

WEDNESDAY - CLOSE TO HOME: We have moved to another house that is closer to town and much smaller. The house we left had issues that we overlooked because we were blinded by the beautiful view. The doors of that house were very hard to lock and unlock which was a major safety issue. We asked for the locks to be replaced but the landlord refused to spend the money necessary to do so. That was the deciding factor for us to move. One of our main objectives for moving to Belize was so we could live cheaper and save money. We were not doing that. This new house is not as expensive. It is a typical Belizean house in a typical Belizean neighborhood which is where we had wanted to live from the beginning. It is a small, two bedroom, one bath house but....we have a small swimming pool! I love it here as it is more homey and cozy. Since it is smaller, we can run the air conditioning as well so I am much more comfortable in this heat.

So, where as my travels did not take me too far from what we now consider our home, my pictures will be of around town. If I have already used some of these, I'm sorry for repeating. I take pictures to put on my Facebook page as well.

Typical buildings around town.

Dogs get on the roof of houses to stay cool.

This is supposed to be a nightclub.

Cane fields.

Town square where men hang out to talk.

Cane truck.

Our police station.

Sea grapes.

Ferry in Consejo which is hand cranked.

One of the many Ruins.

Breakfast at Miss Junes.

Play area for the kids.

Corozal Library.

Sylvia (the lady in the dark top) at the market. She is our favorite vendor there.

My lunch at Miss Junes - Cow Foot Soup.

This is the fire pit and palapa in the back yard at our new house.

The pool in our backyard at the new house.

I know this is a lot of pictures but I hope you enjoy them and get a little taste of where we are living. I am much happier in our new house. It seems more like "home" to me. Take care everyone! xxxxx

Travel Tales - Tuesday

TUESDAY - WORST TRIP EVER: We love to cruise. We think that for the money it is the best way to go. I do have to say though that we had a terrible time when we took a cruise on Costa Cruise Line. The ship was beautiful but the service was so terrible and the food, ugh, not even good, including the Italian food. Costa is an Italian cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation. They own most of the cruise lines out there now (most run out of the US) except for Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, Regent, Seabourne, and Norwegian. I heard they are trying to buy Princess Cruise Lines as well but I don't know if that has happened. They advertise themselves as the largest cruise company in the world, and I guess they are. Anyway, we took a seven day Caribbean cruise on the Costa Atlantica and I can honestly say it was the worse trip we have ever taken (and we have taken a LOT of cruises).

How bad was it you ask? So bad I didn't even take any pictures! Here are some pictures I found online. Like I said, it was a beautiful ship but I will never cruise with them again. All the beauty in the world doesn't make up for the poor service we received.

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Travel Tales - Monday

 Can you share with us some of your best travel stories or images..


Monday .... dream destination
Tuesday  ... worst trip ever!
Wednesday  ... close to home
Thursday ... far away
Friday  ... activity or relaxing?
Saturday  ... childhood trips
Sunday  ... fantasy holiday guest!

Hope this prompts some fun thoughts.. especially that fantasy guest!

MONDAY - DREAM DESTINATION: One of our dream destinations was Greece. We took a two week Mediterranean cruise that included Greece (this is the cruise we met Lynne and Peter on). Hubby is really into history and I am really into Greek food. LOL! We loved just about every place we went on that trip including Turkey, Croatia  and Venice but for me, Greece was the dream come true! We want to travel to the UK next. Maybe this next year????

Market in Corfu

 Gondolas in Venice

 Santorini

 Santorini

Mykonos

Athens

Ephesus (Izmir) Turkey

Dubrovnik Croatia

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Sky Pictures - The Rest of the Week

Here are my sky pictures for the rest of the week. Some of them will be from my archives and some are recent.

Thursday - Sunrise
I am seldom up that early since I am not a morning person. It seems like daylight arrives so early here. By 5:00 a.m. the sun is up so I am using an archive picture I have of a sunrise (not here unfortunately) and one I cannot take credit for. A friend who is a marvelous photographer took this one in Tampa (thank you Bob).

Friday - Sunset
Again, I cannot honestly say I have seen a pretty sunset here. I just don't think we are in the right location for that so I will use an archived picture I took where we used to live in Orlando.

Saturday - Through the trees
I took this one a couple of weeks ago because I thought it was a pretty shot.

Sunday - Over the horizon
I'm not quite sure what this one is supposed to be. Here is a picture of what I think it means. This is a moon shot I took of a full moon we were having. Not sure if it qualifies as over the horizon, but I liked it.

Sunday - Sea and Land
That is an easy one for me.

Everyone have a good weekend! xxx

Sky Pictures - Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

Our challenge this week is to take pictures of the sky with a different shot for each day. Monday is blue skies, Tuesday is cute clouds, and Wednesday, is grey threatening skies.

Here is Monday (and KathiJo, you are right, we don't have much of anything but blue skies).

As for cute clouds, I wouldn't consider this one cute but I thought it was very interesting.

Even though the sky may not look very grey, it really was (that is grey not blue). In fact, it clouded up and stayed cloudy all day.

Be back later in the week. xxx

Centenary

We are having internet problems again. I guess this is what happens in third world countries! Oh well. I am afraid all I can offer are a few pictures I have of my dad when he was in the military. They are old but not 100 years old.

Take care everyone! xxxx

Summer - Out and About - Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Here are my pictures for Thursday, colorful clothes. I like bright colors so most of my clothing (even my pajamas) are what some people would say are "loud"! LOL

Friday is all about sun and shade. We have lots of sun. It has been very hot here with high humidity so it can be pretty bad. Most days though, if you can find shade, there is a nice breeze. The top picture is of a bush shading the ground from the sun and the second picture is of the tile patio in back of the house with the shade starting to overtake the sunny part as the sun moves during the day. By late afternoon the patio is all in shade. But boy, when the sun is hitting it, do not walk out there barefooted or you will burn your feet!

Saturday we were to take a picture of children playing in the sun. I caught these kiddies playing at the edge of the water (we were in town). We don't see too many little ones out where we live.

Sunday the picture is to be of water. We have plenty of that here. I took this one when we were in town earlier this week because the water was just so pretty that day.

Hope everyone is well. Take care! xxxx