Europeo Hotel Managua

We were off nice and early, a clear and sunny day looking good for an early border crossing.
Then Graham UK gets a puncture. Not bad though back on the road in 40 minutes, then 3 police road blocks in the next 50 miles. Graham is in unlucky mode and gets scammed by the police for $20 for an alleged oil leak, which is good considering the state of most of the local vehicles. Corrupt Honduran Police ...

Today was a good and productive day. Once again, I got super dirty. I was covered in both concrete and paint. We worked really hard mixing and making concrete - and we finished the walkway! It looks great =) We also took a break in the middle of concreting and painted another building around the school. Painting was a nice break for the back and arms, thats for sure! These two projects did not take the entire ...

Granada and Masaya were pretty good. Granada isn't the type of city you go out about at night. Nothing is open and noone is walkign around. a drastic change from the day. Everyone is out walking everywhere and crazy markets and people sellign teh most random things on every street and corner. When night comes its all packed up and in the hostel we went. traveling with Canada, Kiwi and Norway who likes to sleep on hard floors. I dont understand but each night she could have stayed in a bew ...

... romantic atmosphere we went down to the lake to watch the sunset.. again with our beloved Flor the Caña.There got into a conversation with a Nica, who told us a lot about the country and mentality. After saying good-bye to the day he invited us to meet his family and a girl, who does some voluntering work and stays at his place. In the end we ended up in one of the "shop" of the village where all the clothes from all over the world arrive, which people ...

... make it to Granada shortly after that, though I almost fell out of my bus seat because heat just knocks me out. Found a cool place to stay, Hostel Oasis, in the heart of the old market and got my first street hot dog, something I´d been craving for awhile, street food and hot dog. We walked around and the city is gorgeous and tired ourselves out trying to tour the joint in a day. Caught a movie in an old-school movie theatre ...

... Lago Managua en Lago de Nicaragua. In het Lago de Nicaragua, tevens het grootste meer in Midden-Amerika, liggen honderden eilandjes, waarvan met 276km2 Isla de Ometepe het grooste is. Isla de Ometepe heeft ons hart gestolen! Echt prachtig, niet in het minst door zijn 2 unieke vulkanen: de Maderas en de Concepción.

Ontdek met ons dit prachtige land!!! Vamos a Nicaragua!

... we were told were supposed to be there to take care of the bugs. We spent a day on a motorcycle traveling around the island and then hopped a bus with our bags to get to an ecological reserve on the other side. Jeff: We've been staying on a double island/volcano in Nicaragua (Ometepe) and the geology of this place is incredible. The larger of the two volcanoes was active just a few years ago spewing out sulfur gasses and ash. We stayed at a hostel right under ...

... an enjoyable evening. The next day, we rented bicycles to drive around but seeing that the roads are very basic, it was more a trek in the dirt than a relaxing bike ride. It was all about hanging on the handlebars to go down hill riding over rocks and stones and pushing ******* the pedals to go up hill...over the rocks. Apart from the road, the scenery was beautiful though with kids playing in the fields, old men waving hello sitting in a chair in front of ...

... Rights for the poor! Rights for women! Rights for everyone! Viva la revolucion! Viva Daniel! Viva Hugo! Viva Sandino! Viva Fidel! Viva Zapata!¨ He listed some other revolutionaries I didn´t recognize, but you get the picture.

Unfortunately, some of the students were wigging out after the crowd experience, and we decided to head back to the bus although that meant missing most of the speeches and just sitting around for a while.

My last outing while ...