Friday, July 21, 2006

Looking for a bank!

Hello again...

After an eleven hour extremely cold bus ride and almost 24 hours of drenching rain we made it to Flores. Beautiful little island on the Lago de Peten Itza an hour away from Tikal, which we will visit tomorrow bright and early at 5! Today we enjoyed a very relaxing day (well, we had no choice what with the thunderstorm), although I could do without this cold I got on the bus (thank goodness there are pharmacies everywhere!)
After it cooled down we went to take a look at our surroundings and ended up finding a Japanese restaurant founded by 2 japanese women who have been coming to Guatemala to volunteer for years and decided that they liked it so much they bought a restaurant/shop ....and yes...we did have sushi and saké!
And the finale..to explain the title of today's piece --- we have come with most of our cards, mostly maestro, mastercard, visa, visa electron, well, you know, the usual...except today we went looking for money with only Jo's maestro cards and a mastercard --- it took us five banks until we finally suceeded as most dont take maestro and Jo has forgotten the pin to his mastercard (this is not the first time we have this problem and in Xela we met an Austrian girl that had to go back to Mexico has she had no money and only a meastro card to her name that wasnt accepted anywhere!) So here is a little tip for travelling: always bring more than one different card and always remember your pin! :)

Bye for now
Love
Jo and Fil

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