...seeing as Cath asked! Lovely to hear from you Cath. I'm not saying you made the right or wrong decision, but I most definitely am not looking for parties - however, as I sit on a hammock not in Granada, I might as well be. The party across the bay (via a suspension bridge) is filling the whole area with its reggaeton disco. And that's a fine thing. Granada was in many ways like Cartegena and Iquitos. All three have colonial and colonialist overtones. A...

I realise I'm writing this for me, but apologies for the general shonkiness of the presentation. This site is rubbish, but I can't be bothered changing again. Anyway, I'm in Granada, Nicaragua, as the map may show. I arrived quite late at night to my posh hotel (I'd always planned colonial comfort around this point). 2145 meant the town looked shut and when I was given a free cocktail voucher I was a happy soul. Until it turned out that the bar closed at 220...