15/1/10 - day 37. got up at 8ish, showered in freezing cold water (it was painful), got chicken in pastry from a street vendor for breakfast and departed for the bus station for my next destination - esteli. this would be my final stop in nicaragua and the bus there took 2 hours. on this bus, not only were there people selling food and drinks, but there was a woman selling pills! i think they were some sort of vitamin supplement, and people were actually buyin...

14/1/10 - day 36. got up about 9am and went downstairs to ask where i might be able to find some info about stuff to do in the local area. rather than direct me to the info centre though, the lady that working at the guesthouse said she could tell me anything i needed to know. since there isn´t a polite way of saying ´that´s kind of you but unfortunately i cant understand most of what you say so i´d rather look at leaflets´, i sat down with her and she tol...

13/1/10 - day 35. got up at half 7 and left the hostel around 8 to get the bus to matagalpa. bought breakfast on the bus - fruit. one thing ive never had to worry about is missing breakfast if im getting an early bus as there´s no shortage of people hopping on and off selling food and drink. bus left at 9 and got to san isidro about half 11 where i had to change buses for matagalpa. this took another hour and actually the whole thing took a lot longer than i tho...

12/1/10 - day 34. got up around 8, feeeling surprisingly good considering the lack of kip and the rum in take from last night. andrew and i ahd arranged to meet lester and go to a local beach that day called las peñitas. lester failed to show up for the time and place arrangd so i told andrew i was gonna go rather than wait around as we had no means of contacting him. andrew joined me and we after struggling to find where the bus to the beach leaves from, we l...

11/1/10 - day 33. got up at half 7 as i was keen to get an early start. moving on to Leon today which is a similar in style colonial town like granada. got an 8:30ish bus to managua (the capital) where i had to change buses for leon. the way the minibus style buses work is that they just basically wait til they are full then go so you can never be sure how long you´ll be waiting. i was lucky tho i was the last person to get on the bus so it left immedeiately....