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...

Nicaragua here I come!! Up at 5am with once again an uneasy belly made me a little nervous for what could be a very long day of travel. My bus left Monteverde at 6am and weaved its way 2.5 hours down and up terrible mountain roads before arriving at the main highway. At the highway I got off the bus and waited nearlly an hour in the steaming heat for a bus heading to the Costa Rican boarder town of Penas Blancas. The bus to Penas Blancas was an old bus with tiny ...