Hotel Don Quijote
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Day 9, Hello Granada
... the volcano had been overly active over the last few days and that we may want to wait until tomorrow for our local tour because they might reopen the volcano for then... So we did. We had him take us to our hotel in Granada called Hotel Granada.
Since we were early and our room was not and it was really really hot we went to the pool restaurant for lunch and straight into the pool. The water was warmer ...
Pool Parties, Buffets and More Diarrhea
... people at the hotel were not overjoyed with this and wouldn’t even talk to us. Screw them. I don’t need some pretentious ******* trying to complain about how his TV only had 20 channels anyway. We did end up meeting some dude named Fred
who had come to use the private pool too though. Fred was in his 60’s and retired from
Budweiser. He had no kids or wife and was living in Nicaragua to learn Spanish. I ...
Managua Day 3
Up at 7am after a ton of sleep. Lots of fireworks in the night, there was some fiesta in the central park I checked out briefly. Got breakfast at a restauraunt, packed my duffel bag and headed to the bus station. Good 15 minute walk across town. Nice little place. Found the bus to the border and a couple hours later we were there. Long line for the exit from Costa Rica but I had a serious stroke of ...
Will We Ever Get There???
... 4 hours late and unable to reach our beach destination :(
So after a dodgy pavement dinner on plastic furniture and a pretty good nights sleep we caught a taxi with 3 guys we met on the bus to the local bus station to catch a direct shuttle to the beach. However as usual nothing goes to plan and after being hounded bus touts (yes they exist) we were pushed onto the wrong bus and only once we'd started going did we find out that we were ...
Granada
... the Mercado and meeting people. I ate lunch at "Nectar" where I met a musician named Rafael. He plays Nica music with his father at night and works at Nectar during the day. I gave him one of the 3 CDs I brought with me, he said he'd check it out. I also met some expats from the hotel, lots of interesting characters. That night I spent some time
out on Calle Calzada, there were some wild celebrations going on late into the ...
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