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Re: Belize City & San Pedro, Belize
The streets are home to local and visiting barefoot strollers, casually making their way through the shops and restaurants or just relaxing and chatting with the locals who are friendly and tolerant. A few taxis, trucks and private vehicles are in service in the growing community, and the newly formed traffic committee is hard pressed to create an equitable policy regarding importation of future vehicles.
In front of the police station below, you'll also see golf carts and an ATV. There were lots of bicycles as well.
The steering on the golf cart took some getting used to - one had to muscle up to turn [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img] Of course, there were only two 'gears' - forward and reverse - and to change from one to the another was like turning a door handle. Definitely not the most comfortable for a tall person, so after a while, CG took over the driving. I have to say that going around a particular corner was like doing a number of three-point turns; took her a couple of tries but she was a gamer [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]
Funnily, when the cart is rented, the Agent and the customer(s) do the walk around as they do when one is renting a car. We had prepaid for the gas usage instead of worrying about bringing back the cart with the required amount of gas. When our Agent was explaining to us how the cart worked, she said: "Oh, don't worry about the gas guage, it's broken but it should have enough in there for the time you rented." [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img] The rates were fairly simple - this amount including gas; this amount without gas, with the former being more economical. What made it even more interesting was that in our subsequent drive around San Pedro, we did not see a single gas station! Where would we fill up if we had taken the "without gas" rate? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]
The streets are home to local and visiting barefoot strollers, casually making their way through the shops and restaurants or just relaxing and chatting with the locals who are friendly and tolerant. A few taxis, trucks and private vehicles are in service in the growing community, and the newly formed traffic committee is hard pressed to create an equitable policy regarding importation of future vehicles.
In front of the police station below, you'll also see golf carts and an ATV. There were lots of bicycles as well.
The steering on the golf cart took some getting used to - one had to muscle up to turn [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img] Of course, there were only two 'gears' - forward and reverse - and to change from one to the another was like turning a door handle. Definitely not the most comfortable for a tall person, so after a while, CG took over the driving. I have to say that going around a particular corner was like doing a number of three-point turns; took her a couple of tries but she was a gamer [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]
Funnily, when the cart is rented, the Agent and the customer(s) do the walk around as they do when one is renting a car. We had prepaid for the gas usage instead of worrying about bringing back the cart with the required amount of gas. When our Agent was explaining to us how the cart worked, she said: "Oh, don't worry about the gas guage, it's broken but it should have enough in there for the time you rented." [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img] The rates were fairly simple - this amount including gas; this amount without gas, with the former being more economical. What made it even more interesting was that in our subsequent drive around San Pedro, we did not see a single gas station! Where would we fill up if we had taken the "without gas" rate? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]
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