Volcano Boarding or Not!! After about 2 hours sleep I was up doing my morning exercises by 5am - this is starting to become a very bad habit that I should try and get out of. I had some breakfast which is a typical snack from here consisting of fried yuka (similar to potato) balls soaked in honey: they were absolutely amazing with the crusty edge absorbing all the super sweet honey. I hung around in the morning surfing the net, drinking Nicaraguan coffee and wait...

Off to Leon!! Up bright and early this morning for our long day of travel to the city of Leon. Around 6:30am after some delicious tamales (I picked up from a little old lady) Luis and I headed for the dock to catch the ferry back to the mainland. Unfortunately the ferry wasn't leaving until 9pm and we had to take the Lancha - a very old ferry that rocked like a leg-less rocking chair. From the moment I got on the boat I felt sick from all the motion and the terri...

Dirtbiking Ometepe! Today Luis and I decided to get up early and hire some dirtbikes and ride around the whole island. Luckily there was no rain and the weather didn't look so bad so we headed down to a guy I had talked with a few days ago about hiring bikes. After handing over our passports, showing our licenses, paying $20 we were handed our helmets and keys and we were off. I can't explain how great it is to be back on a motorbike and it didn't take my long be...

Hangovers!! Getting out of bed was a struggle this morning and the cheap nasty liquor had certainly proved its worth. I had organized to meet the others at 9:30am so I made my way over to their hostel to find only one of them up and ready for another day of sightseeing. Turns out the others had continued on until well after 2am and were now also feeling it and having trouble getting out of bed. After sitting around for a few hours waiting for the others to drag t...

A Day at the Beach! Waking up feeling much better was like winning the lottery this morning. After some breakfast and catching up on emails I went over to see the English girls and work out a plan for the day. The girls wanted to do a few things in town so we wondered around a bit, brought some watermelon and then decided to head to the famous Santo Domingo beach. On the way to the bus stop we met a Singaporean guy called Ronald who decided he would join us. When...