10/1/10 - day 32. up at 10, showered(!) and decided to get my haircut. this was simple enough but when i was there they lady at the barber asked if i wanted a shave as well. and since i had got around to having one in about a week i thought yeah why not. so after trimming my beard, she got foam and a blade out, which i hadnt anticipated. she reclined my chair so i couldnt see what was going on and when she put me back up, i was kinda horrified to see she had c...

9/1/10 - day 31. got up about 10am, the aussies were leaving for ometepe so said bye to them then went to have a nice shower to help rid me of my slight hangover and the sweaty feeling accumulated over a humid nights sleep. but disaster! there was no water! and nobody seemed to know why! knowing i couldnt have one made me want one even more so i was NOT happy! i was however rather hungry so although i felt skanky i went into town for food. came back and sti...

8/1/10 - day 30. got up about 9am. me and the aussie lads decided to go to masaya which is a little town about a half hour away. got the bus there and went to the market, which we got breakfast at in the form of various pastries we picked up while walking around it. was really nice. what wasnt so nice was the sight of piles upon piles of raw meat just sat out in the sun, gathering flies. there was a fort nearby by as well in a place called coyotepe which we...

7/1/10 - day 29. got up at 7 and got ready for the taxi to take me and the others to moyogalpa and the other end of the island, where to ferry goes from. we were supposed to leave at 9am but the 3 of them were arseing aound and and we didnt leave til nearly half past. i wasnt used to this waiting around for people, after nearly a month of solo travel and not having to wait for anybody else to do anything, i found this quite frustrating! we got to the ferry ...

6/1/10 - day 28. the previous night at dinner, a guide had come round asking if people wanted to climb volcan maderas the following day. i said i wanted to go up as far as the cloud line (about 750 metres of the 1400 metres) and had to meet him at half 7. so i got up at about half 6 after a very windy night sleep (my bed was by the window, i didnt have flatulence), had all you can eat breakfast buffet of porridge, eggs, bread, all kinds of fruit and coffee and...