SteveWebber

The journey to San Jose was a rather long and boring affair consisting of badly dubbed movies played too loud, overly cold air conditioning (something that was becoming rather normal now) and another strange border town. Sarah wasn´t quite 100% either so her journey was even worse than mine! We crossed into Costa Rica without problem but with plenty of useless delay...an arbitrary bag search consisting of digging the bags out of the coach, hauling them across to the customs table, waiting around for half an hour for a not very offical looking chap to come and look at 10 partially opened bags before saying all was fine and we could get back on. As was the norm for border crossings you have 2 stops - the exit part of Nicaragua and the entry part of ... read more

Hello all...its been a while! I have been so busy for the last...well however long it was since my last blog. A lot has happened since then...for example, we are now on a new continent! I shall start where we left off, heading for Ometepe Island in Nicaragua - please excuse me for not going into massive detail on every point, you would be reading a novel rather than a blog otherwise! So... Ometepe is a Beautiful Island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua (which is 188km long and 80km wide!) which consists of 2 volcanoes covered in jungle and not a lot more - a couple of towns and fincas is all you get! We got the ferry across the lake (1hr) which was just enough time for Sarah to develop seasickness for the first ... read more

So we arrived at Lanquin after an interesting journey through the mountains on a gravel road after the paving ran out and the humidity just got higher and higher...by time we reached our hostel (El Retiro) we were ready for a swim. We booked a room and headed for the river at the bottom of the hostel to cool down. The hostel was great - a complete change to what we had been used to - cobañas with thatched roofs on stilts with hammocks outside - jungle around and a fast flowing river at the bottom - it was bliss! 10 mins after getting in the water we were asked if we fancied some tubing down the river...of course we did...it was exactly what was required! We jumped in the back of a truck with our ... read more

Hola! Sorry for the bombardment of posts but this has been the first time I've had any spare time to sit down and a) think about what we've been up to and b) have enough time at a computer to get it all down! As I mentioned in my last post, the trip to Guatemala was, for me at least, Hellish. I had developed what I initially thought was a cold which was probably from the close quarters on the bus to San Cristobal, the air conditioning and my general run-down-ness from not sleeping on any of the busses! This wasn't a problem initially - we big strong men can deal with colds no sweat...that was until the sweats came...and the fever, and the nausia, and the rest...I did manage to maintain my composure for the ... read more

¡Hola Everyone! I hope everyone is good! I have so much to tell from my last post that this may be a bit of a ranting drawl but I will try to keep it to a minimum and just give you the highlights.. The last time was in Mexico City after we had just arrived... p.s. I cannot upload photos very easily at this internet cafe so I will upload some to facebook and try again somewhere else! So - Mexico City was excellent - we made our way to the Museo de Antropologica in the Chapultepec park which is a world renound anthropology museum studying all the Central/South American indiginous peoples. Its very impressive - the photo of the giant pillar supports a massive roof on its own and is a gigantic water feature at ... read more