Ola for the final time from the Americas!! You find me and obviously the travelling Crocs at the Shore Club in Miami (the Crocs overlooking the pool.... in the rain tho, it would appear rainy seasons are following me around this part of the world!!)Adjusting back to the real world..... well heres how the real world is right now, right infront of me. I'm sitting in the Italian restaurant at the Shore Club overlooking the pool enjoying a wondeful seafood risotto (its certainly been a while since i had one of those.) At the far end of the pool is a bar. At the bar is a large tattooed bodybuilder and his surgically enhanced pornstar looking girlfriend. The reason i mention them (and they are definitely the talking point of lunch, theres quite a crowd sitting near me) is theyre pretty much having sex at the bar.... only in Miami. How strange. I have returned from a place where poverty, struggle and the odd bit of violence is pretty much the norm, to this. I always thought that adjusting might be a bit of a struggle, hard work even, but given all the things i've seen in the last few months, this really does make me wonder what on earth is going on in the world... (i shouldnt complain too much i guess, as the table of guys sitting next to me has pointed out, this is free, normally you have to pay to watch this sort of thing! It is actually relatively amusing.....!) Oh, theyve just stripped off and jumped in the pool... the plot thickens!
The last few days in Belize were relatively uneventful, i chilled by the pool at the Black Orchid Resort, watched all sorts of wierd and wonderful wildlife amble by me (i have to admit i've never really come up close with big iguanas, but about 6 of them lived outside my room and i had to pretty much shoooo them off my balcony every morning.) Also humming birds, i'm assuming i've seen them before, but not in such numbers. The coolest things, but the hardest thing to take pictures of. Most annoying!! I tried a bit of fishing in the Belize River (caught nothing i'm afraid) lazed by the pool, tried to relearn some Spanish (as after a week of not speaking the language i feel i've almost forgotton everything!) and ate some great food. All very different from the life i've been living the last few months. I also had a brief chance to have a think about everything i've seen and done and have concluded it really has been a life altering trip. Not that i know where things go from here.... but i'm pretty sure that i can say i'll certainly be looking at things a little differently.
There are two things that i really have failed to mention that much in the last few blogs. And theyre both on the end of my feet as i type! Yes, the Crocs. Always there, dependable, steadfast, show total commitment under pressure, dont balk at any problem thrown at them. Really quite a shoe. I know most of you view them in a very different light to myself, but if you are looking for one shoe to see you through 5 months of travelling, be it rain or shine, you could choose alot worse than a nice little pair of Crocs! (check out all their pics on facebook!!) I must say they are looking a little different now than they did when i bought them at the beginning of the year.... that said they have many admirers in Central America and i certainly hope to bring them back to this part of the world at some stage in the future!!
So i have 4 hours before my flight back to good old Blighty and i have to say i really am looking forward to seeing all those things that are so familiar. If i've learnt anything the last few months, its that England (or the UK) really is home and i've missed it a great deal. Never again will i complain about the little things that used to annoy me about our great old country. Things that you think are maybe not quite upto stratch, well, theyre a damn site better than they are elsewhere i can tell you. Good old Blighty - may the beers flow freely this time tomorrow (and may i make the train down to the West Country on time Sunday morning...!)
Spain and Ibiza are the next legs of the trip so i'll update you from there......
Hasta Luego.....
B
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