We
flew to the island of Utila, the smaller of the Bay Islands just off
the coast of Honduras, from London via Miami and via San Pedro Sula in Honduras with American Airlines. We started off on a huge long range triple
seven aircraft and then we connected to a slightly smaller one to San Pedro Sula. From there we flew
along the coastline in a twelve-seater airplane to a place called La Ceiba - and on this flight I sat right at the front and found
I had no choice but to put my feet in the cockpit between the two pilots!
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| Our twelve-seater airplane to La Ceiba Honduras |
We
landed in La Ceiba and had to wait for half an hour for our connecting flight
for the final leg of our long journey. We saw a couple of planes
land and take off again - going to the Cayman Islands and other exotic sounding
places - then a tiny little Cessna airplane approached. We thought it looked
rather old and battered. In fact, Trav quipped that he ‘pitied the poor buggers
who had to get in that plane’.
As
it turned out, we were those poor buggers. I’ve been in a small plane once
before, a sea plane flying over the Maldives, but never anything like this - as
it didn’t even have seat belts. However, you can see by our smiling faces as we
were boarding that we were feeling rather excited by the adventure of it all.
We landed at the airstrip on Utila safely, having experienced an
exhilarating flight and having seen the outstanding beauty of the island by
air. It was all simply breathtaking!
My next post is coming soon and I have a lot to tell you about what happened once
we arrived on the island!
