Finally! The World Cup is over! Thank goodness. We can get back to some sort of normality where our whole schedule isn't dictated or moved around to accommodate some crappy football game. I mean, if people were that interested in watching the games, they should have stayed at home or stayed in one place for a month - not gone on a tour that moves every day! Or is that just me being bitter and twisted?! So, next stop was Lake Nicaragua and the island of Ometepe. ...

I forgot to tell you the tale of our armed police raid on a bus the other day! Of course it's always a bit daunting when a Brit sees a gun as we are just not exposed to the in the UK but when they are so close to you - scary! So firstly, as were putting our bags on the bus, there was a security guy with a hand-held scanner. The guy in front of me pulled out a revolver (yep, seriously!) and handed it over. My first thoughts were that surely there were going to tak...