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Bars, buskers and beggars
... larger ferry boat. At the port of San Jorge the winds were at their strongest and we watched nervously as the skipper manoeuvred the boat past the end of the harbour wall and turned in to moor at the jetty.
Dragging our bags behind us, we fought our way against the winds along the harbour wall, getting splashed by the waves as we went and negotiated a taxi fare to the nearby town of Rivas. We shared the taxi with a young English lad whom, ...
It Was Bound to Happen
... then zip lined through the coffee fields and jungle canopy. The zip line was highlighted by the Plunge, a 13 meter (4 stories) free fall. Of course we were roped and controlled but it was still quite a sensation.
Next, we were driven to the top of Mombacho where we found ourselves in the middle of the cloud forest: windy, foggy, not raining but humidity in the air beyond 100 percent. We ...
TWO HOURS OF LUV'N
... timeline. The 16 km drive to Masaya didn’t take long and the girls chatted and asked questions the whole way. They were very easy to be around---we were having fun.
After getting to our destination in Masaya, the Market Viejo (National Artisan’s Market), we agreed to meet back at the car in an hour so we could split up and go our separate ways. The market was a fun place to stroll and had good quality merchandise. Linda and I were tempted to ...
Rach hits 21 +7, Granada and good surf
... more expensive I can´t imagine he would get them too often!
Leon also provided our first cinema experience on the trip. We saw ¨Bad Teacher¨ which wasn´t the best movie ever made but was in English and with Spanish subtitles. It was also the cheapest movie experience we are likely to ever experience in our lives - $4 each for the ticket and $1 bucket of popcorn.
After Leon ...
You have a friend in Tequila
... Mexican state of Jalisco. One of the cities featured was Tequila; a small city nestled in the Sierra Madre Mountains. The story talked about a Jimador named Izmael. A Jimador is an experienced farmer who harvests the ripe blue agave cactus using a flat bladed knife called a coa. The story described how Izmael made his own therapeutic cream that was purported to improve even the most severely damaged and rough skin.
We had planed a visit to the Rivera Nayarit and decided ...


