Hi all,
For anyone interested, I am currently in Honduras and have beenhere nearly two months working. I have a blog going on and if anyone wants any advice of tips, you can always count on me. Best wished, Christina http://lazylagartija.blogspot.com/
Just started reading and enjoying your blog. My wife and I also walked around downtown Tegucigalpa with unfounded trepidation.
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Thanks Tom, when where you here? I feel just fin walking abut the center during the day, when I'm dressed in normal clothing, but with suits, laptops and heels, it's a little nerve-racking ;-)
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Wow; thanks for these fascinating inside perspectives! I've one influential friend in particular you may have already crossed paths with. I just visited him there in la capital early July, and so much of what you describe only further supports what he's shared and I sensed. Everything about Tegus just seems on-edge and impeded - like it's a wonder anything progresses, government included! I'll definitely be back at some point but much prefer San Pedro Sula when it comes to Honduras big cities.
Have registered to continue following your blog through yahoo; send me a private message if you've also linked this to a Facebook account.
Hi Jose,
Thanks for the interest! It's nice to know that someone other than my father is interested in what I am writing ;-) I bet I have met him (everyone knows everyone here) and I am curious to see who it is. I don't know how to send you a personal message, but my FB is Christina Comben if you want to add me. I'm heading to SPS in a couple of weeks to cover the maquila sector and some grandes empresas; any tips you have for me would be great; I 've never been. Besos, C
I enjoyed your blog. I found particulary poignant, your comment about guilt in staying at a 5 star hotel, knowing those around you had to struggle with simply providing the basics of life. I remember the bi-lingual doorman at the InterContinental hotel in San Pedro once saying the cost of one night in this hotel was equal to his salary in a month.
I too found the "smugness" of my foreign born landlord commenting on how she preferred to rent to Americans instead of the "filthy" Hondurans and the manager of the InerContinental hotel SPS having disdain for the Hondurenos equal to the manager you described (and I not a "leftie", just the opposite). I would not trade my experience(s) running a cigar factory in SPS for one year for any other of my experiences in my 61 year life.
Thank you.