After remembering to collect our washing(!) & me continuing to try & sort out my insurance issue, we walked to the bus station to get a bus across to Masaya. The trip was only about an hour long & after disembarking & getting lost in the Market in the rain, we decided to catch a taxi. We dumped our stuff at the Mi Casa hostel & took a walk down to the Artisans Market hoping to get inspiration for family presents. A couple of hours later we dep...

Due to us enjoying Granada's pleasant & relaxing atmosphere (bar the thieving gypsy b******s!), we decided to stay just one more night. So we used the morning to begin sorting out the paperwork that we knew would land on our laps after being away for just over 6 months. This took us into early afternoon, when we strolled out to see the other half of the sights we'd missed yesterday. Just as we headed out, the streets suddenly became awash with noise. People w...

After me sleeping on the floor & Rach on pretty much just wooden slats due to the mattress being painfully thin, (the worst one to date!), we decided to find somewhere else to stay. Due to Nicaragua being almost as cheap as Bolivia, we settled on a more mid-range hotel rather than a hostel & headed off to see the local places of interest. We visited the old convent (now a museum), one of the multiple churches, strolled down to the lake & then began he...

As we'd not really explored the island so far & we were due to leave today, we thought we'd hire some transport to get us to see the Petroglyphs & stone statues. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to hire a scooter, as the roads where we wanted to go were rocky & unsuitable. Next choice was of course the ATV. But after they had a shed load of trouble starting it & it wouldn't go back into neutral when I took it up the road & back, I said sod it ...

This morning we moved to the 'cheaper' non-AC room, which was a duplicate of ours, but with a fan only & $12 cheaper. We sat watching the sea whilst having the slowest breakfast possible & then decided that because the weather on the island is quite bad at the moment, that we should stay close by. So the day was spent cutting my hair, reading & speaking to the folks, before heading 100m down the road to a nice restaurant/hotel for dinner, just as the ...