Today Mother Nature taught me a very valuable lesson...she will always beat you!! But even so... I had an amazing day!! This morning Kim, Barry, Joyce and I were picked up for our Ometepe Island tour. Our guide showed us on the map where he wanted to take us.... however we were very quick to let him know that we weren't interested in going to the island museum. One more day of looking at ruins or their associated artefacts may in fact kill me. Our guide was ...

Life as a traveller actually means that you need to travel, and today we did just that! We walked to the bus terminal this morning and caught a chicken bus to Rivas. I knew the chicken bus ride was going to be good today!! Firstly because I knew it was only going to be a couple of hours. Secondly, all the religious pictures of Mary and Jesus on the inside of the bus meant that god was also going to be on our side!! And I was right, the bus ride was good - we...

This morning Joyce and I made our way to the local French bakery for breakfast. It was the cheapest and yummiest breakfast we have had for a while! We also got talking to a Canadian expat who gave us a good run down on the history of Nicaragua, the current issues faced by Nicaraguan people and the big controversy.....whether the new canal will end up being built through Nicaragua!! General consensus is that the locals don't want it, however the Chinese are con...

I now know what it's like to be a gypsy!! Living out of a suitcase and moving every couple of days!! It's the one job I hate doing...repacking my case!! This morning we packed up again and said goodbye to a jammed packed couple of days in Leon! I'm sure we have all had our volcano fix....well at least for a couple of days that is. The entire group opted to pay an additional $9 today so that we could get a private minivan transfer to our next destination. I k...

This morning we went on a city tour of Leon. We started at a mural which depicted the history of Nicaragua and Leon. It was amazingly done by school age children.... I guess there are going to be a lot of future Picasso's coming out of Nicaragua if the walls anything to go by!! We looked at a few of Leon's attractions, including Nicaragua's only wooden church and afterwards we went up to a fortress which gave us the most amazing views of the volcanos that surr...