Inn on the Pacific San Juan del Sur

... any well planned city, all the buses leave from different bus stations and locations so you have to get rip off taxis to take you from one bus station to another which are teeming mass of humanity. The bus stations are normally located at Mercados (markets) which is an excellent idea as one can stock up on food for the journey; that is if one didn’t have the extra 20lbs of Brad and mini-Brad to contend with. I managed to avoid one rip off taxi driver who claimed it ...

... loud and we sang along to the songs, improvising the words we didnt know. The back door was also open, allowing Julian to stand and stick his head out just like the taxis back home! We laughed the whole way to Santa Cruz.

We had been recommended a place to stay at by some people that Julian had met in Columbia. They had done some work at the hostel in return for free board. The guy that runs the place is so laid back and the place was really nice, complete with free pool ...

... whooshing through the air on a wire with your legs in the air and your privates being squashed by an adult nappy. I got stuck on one of the slow lines and a guide had to come and get me, linking my legs through his with us ending up looking like something out of the Kama Sutra! Not for the faint hearted this. The only down side to the event was that it was over so quickly. Within 45 minutes we were back on the ground, walking like cowboys.

Back at the ...

... forward to cooking our own breakfasts and lunches for a few days.

San Juan del Sur is a nice little beach town on the Pacific coast, about 30 minutes north of Costa Rica. We've spent the past couple of days wandering through the streets, checking out the beautiful beaches, and indulging in some incredible lobster and shrimp. It's very reasonably priced here unless you want to shop, which, fortunately we've done more than enough of. Downside is ...

Having decided Granada was not the place to rest up it was a hour and a half dawdle to San Jaun Del Sur a beach resort on the Pacific coast, it is only about 20km from the sea to the lake.
A nice friendly little fishing but increasingly tourist town set in a horse shoe bay, with a huge statue of presumably San Jaun on top of the hill at the north end of the bay.
Lots of surf, dive, fishing and Eco trips to see turtles. A lot of backpackers and students on gap years, I feel a ...

... br>Yesterday I went on a boat trip with a bunch of guys that have been living here for awhile.
We where hunting waves at a place called pangea drops, its a bombie thats basically on the beach.
After a rough boat trip about 40km north and through some pretty big swell we arrived to a rainy onshore break that looked like it was closing out, we paddles for what seemed like an eternity from the boat to the break to find a pretty solid right hander that reminded ...

... green and wet. Awesome hike all round.

Me and Eugene, a Belarussian (yes, from Belarus!), realized about half way down that catching the ferry off the island would be a really, really close, so immediately after getting down, legs still shaking with fatigue, we set off for the port. We completely missed it and went to Ojo de Agua again, ending up in Moyogalpa for the night. Getting up at way-to-early-o ...

...Ometepe!! Hummm... 2 volcans (Maderas et Conception) en plein milieu du Lac Nicaragua (seul lac au monde à avoir des requins) qui, à force d`entrer en éruption, on créé une ile! Ca vous donne une idée du coté fantastique de la place! Direction Playa Santo Domingo, où on a revu des gens des Corn Islands et par le fait meme rencontrer d`autres dont une Québécoise! Mon dieu que ca fait du bien de parler en québécois et non en français parce que, de toutes manières, ils ne ...

... til hans og gerdum thetta. That kom svo í ljós ad hann var trúbodi og hann baud okkur ódyra gistingu hjá sér sem vid ákvadum ad thiggja. Hann sagdi ad Gud hefi leitt okkur á veg hans og thessvegna vaeri hann meira en fús til ad hjálpa okkur! Thetta var vaegast sagt mjog spes ad vera tharna hjá honum, hann á 7 krakka og fjolskyldan minnti svoldis á amish fólk, konan hans og daetur voru í skósidum kjolum med fléttur í hárinu. Thessi madur sagdi ad hann hefdi fengid kollun fr ...

it was a slow day, i decided to just walk down to the beach but i only made it to the corner coffee shop and started drinking at 9am. beer after beer after beer i drank the day away with some crazy ass auzzyz. we were hitting on this cute german chick who had a boy friend but that didnt stop ...