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Nursing our hangovers with some beach time

I'm currently sitting metres away from the surf breaks of Playa Gigante, Nicaragua enjoying my first alcohol-free day in over a month. As Bob Marley croons "Every little thing gonna be alright" over the hostel speakers; it's occurred to me that yes, indeed, everything gonna be alright - so long as I stay the hell away from alcohol over the next few days.

Following my intoxicating month in Belize I hightailed it straight to Utila, the smallest of Honduras' Bay Islands nestled in the Caribbean Sea. I had grand notions of putting my party days behind me and instead focusing on obtaining my diving certification (Utila is renowned amongst the backpacking world for being one of the cheapest places to learn to dive in Latin America). And whilst I did indeed obtain my Open Water Certification and subsequently my Advanced Open Water; the reggae baselines thumping from the dance halls throughout town and the ridiculously cheap cost of rum proved too hard to ignore, so I instead found myself spending many a dive trying not to throw up into my regulator.