From Granada we took a bus to Managua (the capital) and to the airport for something all 3 of us had eagerly been awaiting. Located 70km off the coast of Nicaragua in the middle of the Caribbean are the Corn Islands. Once populated by pirates and buccaneers, the islands are now low-key Caribbean paradise location spots. We were heading there for a one and a half week Easter break and we were going to do as little as possible. We had all been on the road for over ...

We arrived in Granada in the early afternoon and my right foot was hurting bad from my motorbike accident. The impact of the bike collapsing on it had clearly done some damage and I was unable to put any weight on it. This meant that after I checked into the hostel I was resigned to spending the rest of the day in bed with an icepack on my foot. Unfortunately this didn’t change much for the next few days. When I finally became manoeuvrable again we all went for...

Another country, another border crossing. We got a bus from Monteverde to the highway, another from the highway to Liberia and another Liberia to the border. It was then another 2 hours to get through border control, things move slowly in Central America! From the border we got a chicken bus to Rivas in Nicaragua, they are called chicken buses because you can basically take anything onto them. This one did actually have a chicken on it which crowed every time a b...

The 15 hour bus journey wasn’t the worst I’ve been on. The seats were comfortable, it was only half full and I managed to get a fair bit of sleep with some help of my Sleepy Time Playlist. The border crossing in to Costa Rica was horrendous though. We arrived at 6 in the morning and we were not on our way again until nearly 9! It was so slow and tedious that we were ‘up to here’ by the time we got on the bus again. After another 5 hours we arrived at San ...

After the gruelling 9 hour wait in Lima airport I finally boarded my flight to Panama City early in the morning. Those nerves that seem to appear whenever I move on to a new country popped up again. It felt that this finally leg of my trip (my money wasn’t going to last for me to see any of the US) was going to be the most challenging. I had been with Kieran and Jordan in SE Asia, the GAP group in China and travelling in the English speaking countries of Austra...