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Tamberlam
June 8th 2013

After a manic two weeks of pretty much non stop liver abuse I decided that it was time to head to the beach for a bit of R&R and no drinking. An Aussie called Adam that I had met in San Jaun del Sur and I headed off to a hostel at a semi-secluded beach that was about a 30 min shuttle ride from SJdS and then a 20 minute walk with our packs along the beach to the hostel. Spending three nights doing absolutely nothing was certainly what my body (and my liver) needed in life. The hardest decision that I had to make one day when waking up was deciding whether I wanted to go for a swim in the Pacific Ocean, which was about 10 steps from the entrance of my hostel, of ... read more




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DawnW
May 22nd 2013

Hi everyone, Here are some photos from the last two weekends. The first weekend was at the beach in Boquita. The second weekend I went with other students to the Mombacho Volcano! I am halfway into my stay and am thinking some of coming home, especially when the 4 hours of Spanish lessons daily drag on. It wouldn´t be so bad if I thought my Spanish was improving, but I can´t say that it is. I still feel like my Spanish is only in survival mode and can´t understand rapid conversations. Oh well, I´ll keep plugging on, knowing that I can be remediated at WTI in the fall. Dawn... read more




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DawnW
May 22nd 2013

I have had two busy weeks and have taught lots of yoga both at the Ruben Dario School to the primary children and to the two grandsons at my house. The kids at school love to get out into the patio to take a break from classes and they seem very receptive to "silla yoga" or chair yoga after 10 am when it is so hot outside. Here are some pics.... read more




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DawnW
May 22nd 2013

Here are some photos from my home with my Nicaraguan family. They are a tough bunch and work very hard except in the afternoons when it is too hot to do anything.... read more




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DawnW
May 10th 2013

Hi everyone, I have made it to Nicaragua and have begun teaching yoga in the mornings and taking classes in the afternoons. After a few nights of not sleeping well, I finally was tired enough to sleep through the chickens, dogs and other sounds in the night. My spanish teachers are great and my only real homework is to put together scripts and lessons for the children so that I can teach them in Spanish. So far besides teaching them I have made a matching game with the names of the yoga poses. It´s been fun but it is hot and I am quite tired every day. However, the food has been great and my family is really nice. The bucket showers are quite good in the evening when it is still hot and I can ... read more




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Lil Stewie
May 10th 2013

We had a sleep in today till about 9am which was nice. We were all really disappointed with Ometepe actually. It had been massively talked up but a few diff people and a few Canadians we met on the volcano hike actually said it was their fav place they have been in the whole 10 months they had been here! There is nothing here at all. There is 3 restaurants and one of them is our hotel, one is the vege place we tried yest and werent massive fans of! So, today everyone decided just to sleep in and then have a chilled out day. Our hotel was on the lakefront though and Lake Nicaragua was so so massive that it just looked like the beach. There is just millions of thousands of midges and flys ... read more




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Lil Stewie
May 9th 2013

We had an 8.15am departure this morning which was a welcome change from some of our previous early morning travel days. We piled onto our mini-bus to take us the 1.5 hour journey down to San Jorge where we waited for a short period until our little ferry arrived. The ferry was more like a mini-barge, space enough for 2 vehicles and we all sat on top to enjoy the views as we sailed across to Ometepe Island. Ometepe Island sits in the middle of Nicaragua's largest lake, aptly named Lake Nicaragua. The meaning of its name literally means two mountains as the island has been formed by these 2 massive volcanos rising up out of the lake. Of the two volcanos, Concepcion is the largest and remains one of the world's most active volcanos, the ... read more




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Lil Stewie
May 8th 2013

Olly Murs cranked out “Trouble Maker” at 7.01am this morning as we had an early start to our kayaking tour. We were finally staying at a hotel that providing breakfast and it wasn't too bad; really sugary cornflakes, fresh fruit salad and toast. Most of our tour group had booked on the kayaking trip and we loaded onto the waiting mini-bus at 8am. Its was a short drive down to Lake Nicaragua where we'd be paddling along for the next 4.5 hours. This lake is massive and completely fresh water. We got kitted out in life jackets which were 'one size fits all'. Well, they didn't really fit the girls and the kids ones were too small so they had to settle for uncomfortably massive life jackets. We strode down the beach (yep, the lake had ... read more




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Lil Stewie
May 7th 2013

We got up this am at 7.01am, cos 7am was just a bit early! We had private transport this am so we could start a lil later which was good! We went down to Bigfoot Hostel again for breakie and had oatmeal to keep us going. It was a pretty short travel day today – only about 3 hours to Granada. We sat up the front and Ben wrote a blog while I just chille dout to music. We had one stop along the way in the capital city – Managua for some snacks etc. We arrived around midday and everyone automatically fell in love with Granada! There was a few volcanoes around and really colourful houses and cleaner streets thn Leon. It had a really cool feel to it. Not dis-similar to Antigua! It was ... read more




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Lil Stewie
May 6th 2013

I've listened to your feedback (well, Gramps') and I'm going to try and enhance the descriptive nature of my blogs, encorpating more of the scenary and locals, instead of just enlighting you on the food we've been eating! So, to begin with, we allowed ourselves a little sleep-in given we were pretty knackered after a couple of long days travelling. We took a short walk to the aptly named Volcano Cafe for breakfast which did really nice fruit smoothies and porridge. We spent the morning wandering around the streets of Leon. It's not the most picturesque of towns that we've visited, and it tried to mimic other Central American cities with the different coloured buildings however most were quite run down. The roads were not cobble stones either therefore there was quite a lot of traffic ... read more









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