Casa de Olas in San Juan del Sur has honestly treated me like one of their own family. It's amazing location and gorgeous people make it hard to feel anything but happy as you stare out over the infinity pool, bathing in rays, singing along to mellow tunes and laughing at each other's poor jokes. Unfortunately, amongst all the good times, we had to hold each other together after a truly awful incident which I won't detail on here. But, beautifully, magically it a...

San Juan del Sur truly is a hard place to leave. I originally arrived here with three Aussie blokes who I bumped into outside a fully booked hostel on the evening that our bus finally arrived in Nicaragua. We piled into a taxi and mutually decided on taking the taxi drivers advice on an alternative hostel in Managua. A semi good nights sleep later (the hostel had incredibly loud and expressive birds in reception who started a merry chorus of squawking around 5am)...