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CA Travels Day 14 – 3-6-9 3-6-9!

Posted by Dave Hill | Filed under general

Up at 6am and on the road for 7am, we took a bus from Chetumal to Belize City, where we didn’t want to hang around, and got on a Belizian chicken bus.  That was definitely the busiest, sweatiest bus I’ve ever been on!  It was a retired American school bus, with school notices still intact.  All the seats were full, with most seats having three people on, or even four when there were small children.  There was about 30 people standing in the aisle, including me halfway up, and I reckon there was close to 100 people on there altogether.  Amazingly, a man selling lemonade ad a seaweed based drink managed to work his way down and back at one stop.

Annie and Anna in The Barefoot Bar

We got to Placencia in Belize mid afternoon, after our tri-bus journey, and spent an hour finding a hotel.  We got a nice room with a double bed for me and Claire, and two singles for Anna and Annie, with air conditioning – something that I’ve never appreciated so much!  I had the tastiest burrito ever at a cool outdoor bar, The Barefoot Bar, and started getting the drinks in because it was Friday evening.  In English currency, a beer is about a quid and a good local bottle of rum is about a fiver.

Claire and me in The Barefoot Bar

We got rum and mixers from the Chinese supermarket and sat on the balcony playing drinking games.  Everyone knows that 3-6-9 goes down a storm, it was a game me and my mate Martyn learned from some Korean lads in Germany on a previous adventure!  Annie is from St Louis in the USA, and I asked her to take it home, and send the game to Asia if she ever gets the chance, so we’ll literally have taken it around the world.

One! Two! Clap! Four! Five! Clap! Seven! Eight! Clap! Ten! Eleven! Twelve! Clap! Fourteen! Fifteen! Sixteen! Fuck!