Angela's Seasonal Xmas Quiz for travellers

 Where will you find a black cake at Christmas? What does Feliz Navidad mean? 

Do the quiz and check the answers to compare the number you get right with other members of your friends and family.  Learn the answers, and get all completely right by doing the quiz again.

See how many points you get. I hope it is not pointless.

 A The word croissant means

1 Crescent, in French

2 Cooked, in French

3 Cross shaped in French

4 Crescent in Italian 

B Spumante means

1 Sparkling in Italian

2 Sparkling in French

3 Spilled in Spanish

C Rosé means

1 Rose coloured in French

2 Rose shaped in Spanish

3 Rose perfumed in Italian

D Whiskey

1 Comes from Scotland

2 Comes from Ireland and America

3 Comes from Native Indians

E Whisky

1 Comes from Scotland

2 Comes from Ireland

3 Comes from Antarctica

F Christmas Pudding

1 Traditionally contains only a silver sixpence

2 Traditionally contains a three penny bit, sixpence, pea, bean or thimble

3 Traditionally contains a gold coin or gold foil wrapped fruit

Xmas crackers

G Christmas Crackers

1 Are named after the sound they make when pulled

2 Are named after the two creases

3 Are named after their appearance when pulled apart

H Christmas Crackers were invented by 

1 Tom Smith

2 Tom Jones

3 Billy Bunter

I In England at Christmas at tea time you eat

1 Christmas cake

2 Mince Pies

3 Christmas cake or mince pies

J The Yule Log comes from

1 England

2 Scotland

2 France

K Stollen comes from

1 Germany

2 Russia

3 Canada

L Panettone comes from

1 Spain and Italy

2 France and Portugal

3 Australia and New Zealand

M At Christmas in Belize they eat

1 White cake

2 Black cake, sometimes with Yellow cake

3 Green cake 

N Champagne comes from

1 France

2 Spain

3 Italy

4 France, and the USA under license

O Cava comes from

1 France

2 Spain

3 Italy

P Prosecco comes from

1 Spain

2 Italy

3 Portugal

Q Sherry comes from

1 France

2 Spain

3 Madeira

R Madeira comes from

1 Spain

2 Madeira which is Portuguese

3 Italy

S Christmas Day is Dec 25

1 In the lunar calendar

2 In the Gregorian Calendar

3 In the Julian Calendar

T Dec 26 Is

1 Boxing Day only

2 St Stephen's Day only

3 Both Boxing Day and St Stephen's Day in different countries

U A hanukiah is

1 The same as the menorah - 7 branches, for 7 days of the week

2 Has only 8 branches, for the 8 day festival

3 Has 9 branches, 8 plus the helper candle to light the others

V

Champagne is 

1 The shape of the bottle

2 A region of France and name of the drink

3 The name of the man who invented the bubbly drink

4 The name of a grape

W The Star of David (Jewish star, also called the seal of Solomon by Moslems)_

1 Has 5 points

2 Has 8 points

3 Has six points

4 Has any number of points

X Feliz Navidad is Spanish for

1 Happy Birthday

2 Congratulations

3 Happy New Year

4 Happy Christmas

Y Traditionally in the UK you kiss under

1 Holly

2 Mistletoe

3 The Christmas tree

Z What is the official name of the UK royal broadcast on Christmas Day

1 The Queen's Speech or the King's Speech

2 The Christmas message because the Queen's Speech or King's Speech opens Parliament

Answers

A1 B1 C1 D2 E1 F1 G1 H1 I3 J2 K1 l  L1 M2 N1

O2 P2 Q2 R2 S2 T3 U3 V2 W3 X4 Y2 Z2

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Belize Independence Festival - September Celebration in Central America

 

Flag of Belize.

Belize is in Central America.

Carnival is is the first or second Sautrday in September, this year 2023, on Sept 9. More coourful than the serious event later. costumes an marching bands.

Carnival costumes are expensive.

Normally clothes are very cheap.You can get 

Sept 10, national day when the Spaniards were fought by British buccaneers, privateers, called Baymen, they looted Spanish ships. 

So now Belize is an English speaking country.

Buccaneers were led by Per Wallace in 1798, 10 Sept.

the Spaniards had malaria and cholera so weren't able to put up much of a fight. 

The buccaneers were waiting in ambush and swiftly defeated them.

Descends of them and M, indentured Indian servants, Mennonites, who were German in the 1950s,some Chinese in the 1970s, so now you find someone from almost every country in Belize at the moment.

After that municipal fairs. 

September 21st is the date of the Independence Day . Flag raising, fireworks. PM address.  Citizens parade of schools, police, military bands, carnival bands and citizens..

See my other posts on Belize. I was talking to someone from there today and will get back to you again next week. The President of my Toastmasters International club lives in Belize.

J’ouvert or Jouvay is at the heart of carnival, and is also celebrated in other Eastern Caribbean islands. The name J’ouvert originates from the French jour ouvert, meaning day break or morning, and signals the start of the bacchanalia that is Carnival.

Jouvert is highly traditional and full of symbols, culture and heritage. It is steeped in tradition and playing mud involves participants known as Jab Jabs. covering themselves – from head to toe – and others in paint, chocolate, mud, white powder or anything for that matter. It is Jouvert custom that everybody gets involved and it’s common to see a newcomer being hugged by a muddy reveler.

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Your Traveler's Calendar

This travel calendar is useful in several ways. You can plan to hold a holiday to conincide with a festival which offers lights and parades, events, exhibitions and activities and excietment. Or you could seek to avoid the busy times with booked rooms and higher prices.

A Traveller’s Calendar

January

from Wikipedia.

Jan 1 New Year’s Day. Concert, Vienna, Austria.

USA Tournament of the Roses Parade, Pasadena, California

Orthodox Christmas Jan 7

Jan 5 Evening before Epiphany.

Jan 6 Greek & Russian Orthodox (Christian) Epiphany. (Birth of Jesus.) 

Jan 26 Australia Day. 

Burns Supper Night, Scotland. 

Jan 27 Holocaust memorial day (liberation of Auschwitz in Poland)

Chinese New Year (Moving dates.)

February

Feb 6 New Zealand Waitingi Day

Feb 14 Valentine’s Day (Ireland, Italy and worldwide)

March

March 1st St David’s Day, Wales

March 17th Irish St Patrick’s Day

March 20 French Language Day

April

April 20th Chinese Language Day

April 23rd St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s Birthday.UN English Language Day. 

Spanish Language Day.

April 25th Anzac Day (Australia and New Zealand)

May

May 1st Labor Day

May 5th Cinco de Mayo.

Jun

June 2nd Italian Feast of the Republic. Flypast of tricolor arrows, red/white/green flag colors

JUNE 6th UN Russian Language Day

20/21/22 Summer Solstice (Longest day)

July

Jul 4th American Independence

July 14th Bastille Day, France

July 18 Nelson Mandela Day

August

August 1st Swiss National Day

August 9th Singapore National Day

August 15th Indian Independence Day

September

Sept 21 Belize Independence Day Parade and Carnival

October

Canadian Thanksgiving, 2nd Monday in October.

October 3rd German Unity Day

October 31st Halloween

November

November 1st and 2nd Day of the Dead in Mexico

November 11th Remembrance Day (WWI Armistice, WW2 and all wars)

December

December 18th Arabic Language Day

December 24 Christmas Eve

Dec 25th Christmas Day

Dec 26th Boxing Day in the UK, St Stephen’s Day in Germany

Dec 31st New Year’s Eve. Midnight Mass. 

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_whose_capital_is_not_their_largest_city

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Friday Dec 23rd Xmas Shopping -Supermarkets Are busy -

Waitrose Xmas. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

 Everybody is out buying in supermarkets in London, my family tell me. I am at home with a cold, despite being double jabbed in Singapore, against flu and Covid, my 5th jab.

I was online in a toastmasters international meeting, Singapore International Dynamic, run by President Edward in Belize. Our theme was Xmas food around the world.

He had a great background of trees. In Belize their Xmas meal includes local food such as beans and rice.

President Edward of Belize.

 We started with a table topics or imprompty speech session, 2 minutes each on local festive food for Xmas or any other holiday we celebrate.  I showed Waitrose Xmas cake. I also had extra props. Stollen, the marzipan filled sweet roll cake, from Germany, but Waitrose haas their own brand. For Hannuaky, which this year coincides with Christmas, the food is latkes, grated potato pancakes, ike has browns or rosti, and donuts with dozens of kinds of fillings..

Donuts, for Hannukah. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

He warned us about procrastinating. Don't leave your shopping until the last minute. Some shops will close early, even lunch time on the 24th, so their staff can prepare for Xmas Eve.

Last year Edward went out to buy presents at a department store and food at a supermarket. 

Supermarket - Closing Time. 

All went well until his wife phoned and reminded him to buy the cranberry sauce. 

By now the traffic had built up, exacerbated by a minor, but inconvenient traffic accident. Unnecessary stress.

The supermarket was still open but had closed the doors as it was already full of customers. Luckily he spotted a friend inside and was able to get his friend's attention and shout, Cranberry sauce!

Nearby was a seller of local Rum Popo. He bought that to give to his friend as a thank you for the favour.

What is rum Popo? The brand name for Local rum, with added ingredients, like an egg nog. The lady who made and marketed it was credited with turning around the Belize economy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rompopeop

Rum 

 As Shakespeare said, all's well that ends well.

The moral of the story, don't leave things until the last minute. 

I had left my back ground to the last minute. I hastily looked for a suitable picture to load up. I found one of myself with Christmas crackers.

Then I found a picture showing the candles for all eight nights of Hanukah with an increasing number of candles. The last night, number eight, is on Boxing Day, December 26th.

Christmas and Hannukah backgrounds for the International online Toastmasters meeting on Friday Dec 23rd.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rompope

https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club

Fruit To Try and Fruit Recipes from around the world

 

Fruit bought from Fairprice supermarket in Singapore.  Water melon, pineapple, and figs. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Your favourite fruit in summer was the subject of my table topics (impromptu speeches) on Friday June 17th at Singapore International Dynamic toastmasters club on zoom, and we had a wonderful entertaining session with surprise suggestions from around the world.

Mango with sticky rice, in Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Mangoes can be made into a milkshake for a quick snack meal, we learned from our recently joined member Shobhana.

Fruit in Belize, Central America

President Edward told us that in Belize in central America, coconuts are sold by the roadside all year, and you can buy coconut milk in pints, quarts and gallons! He described how you can add coconut milk to rice when cooking (straining out the bits of coconut, then adding the coconut later). He also told us how to make coconut into cupcakes, and coco crust, like a patty.

Edward said he ate fruit tarts and kidded himself that he was not putting on weight because he was eating fruit. He used a great rhetorical question, 'Who doesn't like fruit tarts, that person hasn't been born yet!'

Grapes

Edward told us how grapes were the fruit of love, in romantic novels, and grapes and apples are popular in Belize at Christmas. Contrast that with the UK, where we eat dried fruit in mince tarts and Xmas pudding.

Grapefruit

Edward described how his first experience of grapefruit was of what looked like an orange but turned out to be sour. A decade or two passed before he visited the doctor, suffering from a cold or flu, and a couple of old ladies advised him that graefruit (full of vitamin C) might help. He tried grapefruit again, decided that it benefitted his health, and after eating it for two or three days had grown to like grapefruit.

Fruit In The Middle East - Dates

Khalid, on Zoom from the middle east described how the palm tree was the source of life in the old days when every part of the tree was used, logs for building houses, fibres for the roof, and carpets, as well as dates eaten fresh in summer, dried for winter, also used for sweet date syrup. 'Trees provide oxygen,' he said, 'so be kind to your trees'.

On our second round of table topics,

Bananas

Sridhar told us how green bananas can be sliced and spiced with spice and cinnamon and salt and fried in oil to make crunchy banana chips.

Mangoes

Sridhar said mango or any fruit can be mixed with milk to make Indian style ice cream and mango lassi (drink).

UK Fruit - dates

Dates. Picture from Wikipedia.

I, Angela, spoke about how dates are an amusing party food, with the stone removed and replaced by almond, and the stufffed dates placed on toothpicks stuck in a wooden holder if you have one, if not into a large round fruit to look like a hedgehog.

Oh too many great ideas to tell you all. Come to our next meeting, every Friday at 9.30 pm, Singapore time to join in the table topics session which starts the meeting.

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The best hotels and most unusual on Tripadvisor

Some wonderful hotels worldwide. My favourite, from looking at the pictures and descriptions, include a wine hotel in Portugal, and some underground and cave hotels in Turkey.

 I used to consider the most unusual and therefore desirable places on my must visit one day list were the pop up ice hotels in Montreal, Canada, and Scandinavia in Europe were the greatest novelty. Plus the ice festival city in China. And hotels overlooking Niagara in Canada.

What about places you could actually visit, just going to reception to enquire, and use the ground floor toilet, or book a restaurant meal, if you can't afford to stay the night? 

Accessible Hotels To Visit

UK

There's one in Covent Garden. However, one new hotel I noticed had a locked glass sliding door, so you could not even enter the hallway unless you had a booking to stay, eat, or see the staff. 

Britain's Best Bargains & Bed & Breakfast

Bed ad breakfast in the UK is known for short as B & B. In the UK a boutique hotel is like a cute or quaint hotel. 

Unlike the USA where a boutique hotel is often historic and extremely expensive, much more so than a mere hotel or motel. 

You might have read in the News about

The Toulson Court, Scarborough, England.

Flag of Belize.

Central America

In Belize, where the President of Singapore Internatioanl Toastmasters International speakers' club lives, has the Hamanasi Adventure and Dive resort. It is on the coast, south of Belize City. A seaside hotel with a circular pool, a pier, colourful bedrooms with canopy beds and honeymoon packages.

Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa

I honeymooned in Morocco, at the Manounia, where Churchill stayed. The Tripadvisor award in Marrakesh goes to a hotel called La Maison Arabe, French for the Arabic House.

As for Destinations, in Croatia, Dubrovnik has a Game of Thrones trail, and Split has waterfall and wine trail. 

What I really want are

Best central/easy to find

Best luxury

Best birthday

If all this is too expensive, just admire them online, or pop in for a meal, if they are open to non-residents. 

 Useful Websites

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/TravelersChoice-Hotels

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-10785669/Winners-2022-Tripadvisor-Travellers-Choice-Best-Best-Awards-Hotels.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed_article&ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed

https://www.hamanasi.com/

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g297989-d4090921-Reviews-Kayakapi_Premium_Caves_Cappadocia-Urgup_Cappadocia.html

Where to see and follow the royals: from Buckingham Palace (and Highgrove) to Belize

Buckingham Palace. London. England. UK.

Windsor Castle. Crowning Windosor's central mound. 

The top of the Round Tower is glimpsed from the M4 motorway as you drive from London to Wales.

Best seen close up, walking up the surrounding street past the souvenir shops.

Eton mess, meringue dessert (with strawberries in summer). From a traditional English pub. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Which royal places can you easily see from outside?

In The UK

Buckingham Palace. Take the London underground to Hyde Park Corner (or Green Park - a short walk away) See the outside. In summer you can visit the inside. Or take an open top bus tour in good weather and stop off at the Palace.

Windsor Castle.

Drive to Windsor, or do as we did and drive to twin town Eton where we found it easier to park, and walk across the bridge. Whilst in Eton, we stopped at the pub next to the bridge and ate Eton Mess, a crushed meringue mixture. (After having tried Eton Mess in Eton, where it was not much different or better than elsewhere, I was happy to take the opportunity to try Eton mess in other traditional olde worlde pub around England.)

Or take a train ride to Windsor station. Or book a day trip from London to Windsor.

Like other travellers, the royals enjoy travels. Kate and William went to former British colonies which still have Commonwealth or other connections, speaking English and driving on the same side of the road and drinking Guinness, in Central America (Belize) and then on to the Caribbean.

Royal Tours

Belize

See the coral reef and the blue hole. 

Useful Websites

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10678911/Prince-Charles-pictured-showing-tour-guides-Highgrove-Gardens.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgrove_House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_royal_residences

St Patrick's Day Celebrated In Belize, Belikin Beer, and canoeing on the river - Kate & Wills visit soon

 

What else can you do in Belize? All kinds of water sports. Here is a canoe day.

As you see from the pictures, Guinness is available, brewed locally under licence. The local Belize beer is the brand Belikin. You can buy tee-shirts and Belikin bottle openers.

Singapore Dynamic Speakers meets every Friday at 9.30 pm Singapore time, which is early in the morning in Belize. The meeting lasts about two hours. President Edward Young's recent speech was about canoeing in Belize. Birds of Belize. The Barrier reef.

What else to see, caves, waterfall, wildlife, ziplining, Mayan ruins. Health, watch out for malaria and dengue fever. The national dish is riche, chicken and beans.

Belize desserts

Cashew apple wine. Rum raisin bread pudding. White cake. Sweet potato pudding.

Useful Websites

Lonely Planet video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJyqz-pQ398

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizehttps://caribbeanlifestyle.com/must-try-desserts-to-eat-while-in-belize/

Where to Celebrate St Patrick's Day, in Ireland, England, English-speaking Belize, Singapore and Irish pubs and pubs worldwide

 You can celebrate St Patrick's Day all over the world, especially places with Irish pubs. In fact, many pubs celebrate St Patrick's day. 'If you're Irish, come into the parlour,' as the old song says. But, as as a modern pub proclaims says, 'today everybody is Irish!' 

On St Patrick's Day, I hope you will have ' the luck of the Irish'. Drink a pint of Guinness, and have the gift of the gab. 

Ireland is home of the Blarney stone and known for its writers. The poet William Butler Yeats wrote: Tread softly for you tread on my dreams. 

You can read the dreams and daydreams of other famous Irish writers. Alliteratively named James Joyce wrote Ulysses, which starts on a day in Dublin. Oscar Wilde was Irish and is known for his wit. Brendan Behan, another alliterative name. Jonathan Swift had his little people, in Gulliver's travels. Edna O'Brien. In modern times you find Maeve Binchey. Irish sounding names, Brendan, O'Brien, Maeve. 

Go to a pub for a Craic and sing along. Drink Guinness, or whiskey.  Eat simple soda bread. Or salmon. 

Irish pubs have spread far and wide. So have Irish celebrations.

Singapore

Singapore has a street festival from the 15th to the 17 of March 2020. 

 I recall seeing St Patrick's Day being celebrated in Singapore at an Irish pub in Orchard Road. Singapore has several Irish pubs. Molly Malone, named after the alliteratively named and therefore memorable heroine of the song about Dublin's fair city. Another pub with a popular Irish name is Murphy's.

When I was back in London, England, I took this photo of Wetherspoons pub in Hatch End in 2018. Notice the big Irish flag, the rows of Irish flags, triangular and oblong, on the bunting, and the  balloons in the flag colours of orange, green and white. I have explained the flag in another post.

Wetherspoons pub, the Moon and Sixpence, in Hatch End, London, England. hotot by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

In London, as I took the train home, on St Patrick's Day, the carriage was full of Irish people wearing green, and green hats given away by pubs, singing Irish songs.

Over in Ireland you can see a statue of St Patrick in Northern Ireland, at Paul. How alliterative.

St Patrick was a real person. However, it is not true that he was responsible for ridding Ireland of snakes. A geologist says there are no fossils of snakes, so there were never any snakes. 

Thinking of hot countries, over in Belize, which is English speaking, being a former British colony, now independent, the pubs celebrate St Patrick's Day enthusiastically, especially the pub on the British army base. As my friend Edward Young, who is from Belize, enthuses, 'any excuse to party!'

I am preparing for St Patrick's Day. In Singapore, I bought green Irish shamrock theme sandals in size 4. I spotted them in a small supermarket in a condo, amongst the other flip-flops. I bought them in a small size 4. I buy boots in size five, and can wear socks to pad them out to the right size. I prefer adjustable sandals and shoes as my feet swell up in the heat and then shrink in cold weather or air conditioning. However, you need to buy toe-post shoes a size smaller. Too large and you are gripping them and getting hammer toes. 

Or the sandals slip off. You fall. Or risk falling. Inconvenient. Unnerving. Inelegant.

When I wore the sandals they were not comfortable. But I consoled myself with the thought that I didn't like my first pair of Crocs when they were new, and now Crocs are my favourite footwear. You may know the saying, don't cook anything new for a dinner party. The same applies to shoes.

Good advice for travellers is: don't wear new shoes when travelling. Even her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has somebody with the same size feet wearing in her majesty's new shoes to wear them in for a day before wearing them out and about. Not wearing them out. (Ruining them.) Unintended pun. Wearing them in before wearing them out. Oh, the English language.

I shall wear my sandals on St Patrick's Day. You can't see your sandals when they are on your feet under a desk. Nobody else can see them on Zoom, unless you stand up and draw attention to them, or hold them up. What you need to be seen in green is a green tee-shirt or top or a green hat or headband. (And a green background.)

Tee-shirts from teeshirtplace have lots of amusing messages. My favourite witty Irish sounding saying is: World's tallest leprechaun. Here are a few of my favourites.

I shall be talking about St Patrick's day at one or more of the Toastmasters clubs which I attend.

Useful Websites

https://www.teeshirtpalace.com/t-shirts/st-patricks-day

Lots of shamrocks and other designs on flip flops from Zazzle at about 30 dollars

https://www.zazzle.com/st+patricks+day+sandals

For hats and tee-shirts>

https://www.amazon.sg/s?k=st+patricks+day

Irish prayer/blessing porcelain box for your St Patrick jewellery bout 26.72 dollars from the USA (won't ship to the UK)

https://www.amazon.sg/Prayer-Porcelain-Decorative-Keepsake-Trinket/

https://www.carrollsirishgifts.com/st-patric

SINGAPORE

https://www.facebook.com/stpatsdaySG/

https://www.instagram.com/singaporeriverone/

http://muddymurphys.com/

Belize, Honduras, British Honduras - Which, Where, When? Central America

 Belize used to be called British Honduras. Where is it?

South of Mexico, says my Belizian friend Edward, President of Singapore International Dynamic toastmasters club, which is online every Friday, at 9.30 Singapore time..

Wiki says it succinctly. 

British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973,^[2] until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas.

Flag of Belize.

Since 1981 when Belie became independent and changed its name from British Honduras.

Why go there?

Belize is famous for its uniquely large coral barrier reef and scuba diving and snorkelling. Will the barrier reef be preserved and protected? Yes. Belize had a huge international debt. The solution was to appeal for international funds to protect the barrier reef and wipe out the dept, so the country could make money from tourism instead of selling off the coral and what was beneath it. A win-win situation. 

MUSIC & FESTIVALS

Playing steel drums in Belize.

At Christmas time you see Belizian bands wearing red Santa hats and playing on steel drums. 

Belize traditional Xmas cake. Popular with older and traditional people.

Belize modern Xmas cake, called yellow cake, popular with the younger generations. Often you are served both types of cake.

Rum Popo, the traditional rum drink, popular for Xmas. Brand Don Marco.

The Belizians, inheriting British traditions, keep up the Xmas decorations until 12th night, like in the UK.

A typical breakfast includes egg and fruit.

A typical main meal consists of chicken, rice and beans.

Alcoholic drinks include rum based cocktails

Honduras

Honduras means depths in the Spanish language. Christopher Columbus supposedly said he was glad to be out of the depths. (Deep water?)

Honduras is a country in Central America. It may also refer to:

• Honduras, Indiana, United States
• Honduras, Barranquitas, Puerto Rico
• Honduras, Cidra, Puerto Rico
• British Honduras, the previous name of Belize
• 
  
• Central America
• As you can see from the guide below, Belize and Honduras are both in Central America and are two different countries.

Countries	Belize  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  Nicaragua  Panama

Useful Websites 

Belize Tourism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Belize

Honduras

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Honduras

Belize Drink

https://www.facebook.com/kkrumpopo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rompope

PS Update

If you are around on New Year's Eve, 9 pm onwards Singapore time, you can see Angela and the Singapore online club president Edward who is from Belize.

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When