Hi!! just a bit of a warning, this entry is gonna be a bit heavy and not fun and light hearted as you'd expect travel blogs to be...but that is because its about my visit to the dump..a place of extreme poverty. the dump is located just outside managua, nicaraguas capital city. it is called the dump because that is exacty what it is-a rubbish dump. it is monstrous, so big, that is has now become home to about 2000 people, young and old. the people originally mo...

This will be an extremely quick blog just to say i have arrived in Nicaragua safely. This country is so unique. it is very new, but 3rd world and still developing. There are literally no white people around and they speak no English...and i speak no Spanish-their natural language. I have met up with Brian, who is a friend of mine from Portland, in the USA. He is here with friends, Sam and Connor who speak basic Spanish-just enough to get by. luckily the locals ar...