Tim version: * Crossed from Leon out of Nicaragua through Gualaupe, through Honduras, to San Miguel for the night... unfortunately ripped off a little in Honduras. * Crossed further to San Salvador to replace my dead music player and pick up some other stuff... El Salvador and its people, amazing! The version where I feel like writing in Spanglish as that is the only way I seem to be able to speak now!: So, time to leave Nicaragua! This country rocks, and there is so much to do especially the more off the beaten track you wish to go. Its amazing what you can get up to when safety and often legality is dismissed! You just need to use your head, because no matter how stupid something may be, if you want to do it, there ... read more

Tim version: * Landed in tropical carribean paradise, Little Corn Island, and chilled in a beachside hut for a week. * Got my PADI diving qualifications, cracked open some coconuts, and got eaten alive by mosquitos. The version that you should be jealous of, as this place is incredible...: Little Corn is diving paradise. Be it Scuba Diving or Snorkelling, its awesome. Fishing too but meh, not my interest! Its surrounded by reefs, has a really laid back attitude, no cars or pollution creating machinery except a few generators, and is so carribean it isn´t funny. We arrived on the panga and were greeted by hotel runners and people from the two dive shops. I´d already talked to both dives shops but let them have a run at me anyway... the girl from the dive shop ... read more

And no Tim version, this is just a quickie... Heading outta Ometepe I charged as fast as taxis and slow chicken buses on a Sunday would take me towards Leon but having to go through Managua I failed to make it to Leon in one day so had to stay in Managua. The bus stations in Managua are crazy hectic so they´re always a bit of fun, but when the sun starts setting they stop being fun and start being not so fun when you´ve got all your worldly possessions on your back! No choice here but to taxi it because the place is pretty spread out and the good hostels, well, they´re nowhere near the bus station I´m at! The taxi drivers are just that little bit more crazy here too so another high speed ... read more

Tim version: * Interesting trip to Maderas including a run in with a river and my pack and lots of water. * Surfed. And Chilled. And then surfed a little more. The ¨shit I wish I had of not laughed at Morgan about zip lock bags¨version: Ok, so a little backtrack, Morgan the chick from New York... she´s organised. REALLY organised. She had medication for things I´d never heard of and that she didn´t have but just in case, all sorts of other goodies, and everything in waterproof and zip lock bags! We had a good laugh at this back in San Juan, but that came back to bite me on the ass but I´m getting ahead of myself a little... Maderas is a beach that they often head to from San Juan Del Sur but ... read more

Tim version: * Learnt Spanish for a week with an awesome local family. * Got to see the local islands, and taste a whole lot of Nicaraguan Cuisine. Not very long for a full week of stuff version: A late get up from La Libertad Hostel and I mozied down to my Spanish school for the week, Nicaragua Mia! Id signed up for 28 hours of lessons, home stay with a local family, AND all activites. Usually Id go the bare essential lessons but I wanted to try the works this time... When down there they took me to my local family and the place was pretty cool! By our standards still way into the poverty zone but by Nicaraguan standards this place was wicked. Nothing grungy or crappy about the place, its a beautiful home. ... read more