'Not the friendliest of places' Ben, July 2011 Ben, TJ, Andy and I arrived in Granada, Nicuragua, after a rather long 10 hour bus journey with cheeky cab action on top. The bus journey was fine because there was so much room so we lucked out in that respect. We stayed at the Bearded Monkey Hostel which was naff but convenient in terms of getting to the centre of town. Granada is an old pirate town but, other than some interesting colonial architecture, theres little of interest there. Once we had established this, we decided to do what any respectable group of men would do and headed out to the nearest drinking hole. TJ bought a lovely cigar and Ben mixed his own Cuba libres. These were the good times. We toasted ourselves on the smoothness
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