You'd better Belize it - and other postcard friendly puns...

Aiight.

Belize city isn't that far from Mexico geographically, but in terms of a vibe it seems much closer to Jamaica. English (or I'm told it's English anyway) is generally spoken - although most people seem to be a least basically bi-lingual - everyone seems to be listening to reggae and wearing Bob Marley t-shirts, bobbing their dread-locked heads in time and maintaining a very relaxed attitude to life. This is a slight exaggeration, but not much of one.

Oh - and everyone from the police to the beggars to the taxi drivers to the tat hawkers is incredibly nice and friendly - almost suspiciously so in fact. Basically you can either keep and eye one everyone all the time or just surrender to it and go wit' da flow mon. Not being quite able to cast caution to the wind so far it's easy to be suspicious, but everyone's been so disarmingly friendly, it's hard to maintain what is perhaps a healthy weariness and slight skepticism. I guess we'll just have to find the right balance. It's certainly going to be different from Mexico!

We reached Belize City on another 'chicken bus' (no chickens again). all the windows were open which caused a wonderful breeze but also created something of a wind-tunnel which completely ruined my recently styled hair.

So we're planning a trip out to tropical Caye Caulker later on. Hopefully there'll be somewhere for us to stay!