Granada is a lovely pretty colonial town on the shore of the massive Lago de Nicaragua. Its set out like a grid system again, with buildings all painted different colours, lots of pretty churches and squares with shady trees... what a lovely place! However it is December - holy fiesta virgin mary month. This means that there are loads of improvised explosive devices being set off at random in the street which has made me jump so many times. They also have march...

Relaxing on an island again! Ometepe is an island created in the middle of the biggest lake in central America by two volcanoes, Concepcion and Maderas. Somewhat alarmingly, one just erupted last week and covered the island in black ash. But we're not worried. We are relaxing in a nice hostel by the shore of the lake. Strangely there are lots of English people here. We are proud to say that we have so far participated in none of the folloing activities that are...