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We are now in Granada, Nicaragua, after too long in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. While we will miss our room, the view, the gym and our waiters Freddy and Darwin, 10 days was too long! The people were so very nice though, and that made the stay bearable....

However:

I almost didn't make it out of Honduras, since my passport expires in July and Nicaragua requires that one's passport is good for at least 6 months...I had neglected to read that part of the travel guide...And we found out all this on my birthday...

That afternoon, after spending the am at the Embassy getting the house documents notarized, we tried to buy a ticket on the first class bus from Tegucigalpa to Managa, but they wouldn't sell me a ticket, once they looked at my passport...so (after I threw a small fit, picturing life in Honduras) we decided to take the local bus to the border, walk across with the locals and then get a bus onwards.

This option cost about a tenth of the first class bus fare, and if I got turned back, we had decided that I would apply for a new passport back in Tegucigalpa and we would then head for the Atlantic coast, where we would would wait out the two weeks for the new passport..

There was no problem at the border...other than the officials wanting dollars for the entrance fee rather than the national currency!

We spent the night in small town about an hour from the border, and then took an express bus, and two local buses here today.

Granada is beautiful! Other than the heat, it's been a lovely first afternoon here! More in the next blog...

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