This is our house in Tela. It has 3 bedrooms all with flyscreens, which don't keep out the mosquitoes, and a bathroom with a concrete shower and cold water. In the large garden, there's a hibiscus hedge along the front fence, a mango tree, coconut palms with real coconuts, banana plants and a green lawn. Outside the back door there's a concrete water trough, called a pila, which will be needed to be filled with water when the main water supply is cut off, and a clothes line. When we arrived the house was neat and clean inside and the beds were all made and when we discovered that there would be no power until the next day, it didn't seem to matter. At least we didn't have to share with anyone we didn't know and it was actually quite romantic with the candles!
There beautiful views through all our windows. This is from our kitchen window looking onto a soccer ground. I don't know the name of the tree, but it is very common in Honduras and had vivid orange and yellow pea-like flowers with jacaranda shaped leaves. There are green hills in the distance filled with tropical vegetation.
Vanessa has been extremely helpful. She spent 2 and a half days getting us set up with everything we needed in the house, the internet put on, helped us buy a cheap television and fixed up my mobile phone. The electricity company wanted to reinstall our power after the weekend, but Vanessa was very persuasive. First,she had to borrow a ladder from a friend, which was then put on to the back of a ute ( locally known as a pick up truck) and placed against the electricity pole. They couldn't do the job if the ladder wasn't high enough and we all heaved a sigh of relief when it passed the test. The man then climbed the ladder and cut the connecting wire with a large pair of scissors. You can see the photo of this on the side of the blog page on the right. At last we had power! ( If you want to see more details in the photos, double click on the picture and it will come out full size.)
