Rooftops Fly into Tegus and you will observe a sea of contiguous roofsHouses are mostly built right up against one another with no yards. I could step off my back stairs and walk around the block atop the neighbours’ roofs! (above)

Of course this means I hear all my neighbours’ living noises and my apartment fills daily with a mixture of cooking smells. Gregarious, these folks have frequent guests and raucous parties. For such a voluble bunch, disagreements are cheerful, brief, and curiously lacking in venom. (I don’t think this is necessarily a true cross-section of Hondurans, however...)

Household hints 
Put half a lime over the spout of the electric teakettle to keep ants from colonizing in this favourite site.

One can also sprinkle lime juice over surfaces to discourage ants... but it unfortunately leaves the surfaces unpleasantly sticky! (NOTE: Honduran ants assiduously avoid American ant bait traps).

Slosh a little milk into your black coffee or tea—you can then spot and scoop out the ants floating on the surface.