Hospedaje el Martirio Granada

... live music on Friday and Saturday nights playing salsa music and a largely Nicaraguan crowd. We got some beers and settled in to watch the swinging hips and flying feet of the salsa dancers, deftly avoiding actually having to do any dancing ourselves! One particular man took a liking to Alan and starting putting his hand on his ****** and making some suggestive comments to him. Alan then scuttled over to where I was and made me stand close by him for the rest of the ...

... hard coming up was, going down was even tougher. Iīll freely admit that I cried on the way down. I really didnīt think that we would ever reach the bottom. Normally with a five hour ascent itīll take you half the time to come down, not with this baby. Five hours up, five hours down. It was torturous. Legs already weakened from coming up were now asked to fight against gravity and keep us from tumbling face first down the almost vertical hill. It was ...

... we allerelei leuke en interessante onderwerpen bespreken.....en met één van de twee huiskatten op schoot (Ometepe en Carlos) is het erg knus. Regelmatig gaan we mee met activiteiten welke door de school in de middag georganiseerd worden. Zo zijn we naar Lago de Apoyo en naar de vulkaan Mombacho geweest...en aanstaande donderdag gaan we mee met een nachttrip naar de vulkaan Masaya...hopen dat we mooie kikkers kunnen zien.
Afgelopen vrijdag was er een ...

... g-them-with-branches-and-belts-and-shir ts-in-order-to-****-them-right-off, which I can imagine led to the coming of some uppance for a few people. Later, when the bulls were exhausted, the teasing, to put it mildly, progressed to poking them in the eyes, pulling their tails, kicking them and other excesses, it was all a bit horrible really. I don't wish harm on anyone, but it could certainly be said that some people deserved the mincings that were supposedly dished ...

... is that yeah, it's a beautiful place, but there is seriously very little here of substance. This is my fourth day now, and I've certainly overstayed (for various reasons). It's funny how this happens, overstaying at a certain location. But tomorrow I'll for sure be heading to Matagalpa, the coffee country of Nicaragua. I'm really, really looking forward to getting away from these sorts of places, ie San Juan del Sur, Granada, and getting to a far more ...

... international bus to Nicaragua, but we realized upon arrival, that her tastes were perhaps a little more expensive than ours, as the tickets cost $31 per person, constituting an entire day of our budget. We snubbed the guy selling the tickets, and smugly sauntered back into the hot dusty street, sure that seasoned travelers like us could fine a cheaper way. Well, ― hour and 10 dusty blocks later, we found ourselves ...

... field station and spanish school to see these cichlids found no where else in the world. So now Iīm learning how to read scientific fisheries papers and reviewing them in spanish setting up standardized methodologies to follow in order to get accurate relative abundance surveys through scuba diving and snorkeling. Iīm finding that my spanish is greatly imporving with out me even really noticing that I can understand what people ...

... some little islands (yawn) didnīt really appeal, so Simon and I wandered around town, the lake and later checked out a sunset view from the church tower.

Iīm treating it more as a rest stop. Laundry day (well overdue at 3 weeks), shoe repair (they got melted on Pacaya and shredded on Cerro Negro) and corn sack hunting (a tip from Jeff...protects the backpack in transit and isnīt such a thief magnet). And you know whatīs impossible to buy here? Decent alarm clocks. They donīt seem to exist!

... lake is particularly high this year and I've been told that the beaches on Ometepe, a big island in the lake, are essentially gone because they are under water. The other attraction listed in all the tour brochures is Monkey Island. This is a tiny little island which houses a troop of monkeys. I imagine they were put here by people and are regularly fed because there isn't enough there to naturally ...

... theology with a Sister of Charity from New Jersey who has lived and worked in El Salvador for the last almost 30 years. It was a good class but I have to admit that I don't think studying religion is my thing unless it is part of studying a culture (which at times that is really what it was to me). We were based in San Salvador which is a pretty dangerous city so we weren't allowed to go out too much. However, on weekends we ...