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To get to Granada we had to first take a minibus express to managua and change buses there. When we arrived in the managua terminal, it was very busy and Charlotte and I were busting to go to the loo. We were hastled a lot by taxi drivers offering express to anywhere but eventually they stopped coz we asked if they would do it for 40 Cordobas... they werent impressed. Plus the bus guys were all hastling us as well and they all said no no there is no toilet here, presumably becuase their buses were leaving asap and they wanted us on them, but a nice lady in a nearby shop told us there was one right next door to the bus, literally 10m away in a bar. It cost us 5C each but that ... read more

Our first morning in Nicaragua we had cereal from the supermarket for brekky (Dario kindly went out and bought some while I woke up). Then we headed to the main reason we were in Esteli, to see the Mothers of the martyrs museum. It is run by the mothers of those who died in the revolution here in Nicaragua in the late 1970´s. First we went to a smaller museum with a room full of artefacts from thousands of years of history as well as more recent history. The martyrs museum was special, with photoghraphs of all the fighters for the revolution who died, including babies and children. Probably about a third of the fighters were women. There were a lot of little stories of how people died or particular battles with lots of details. It ... read more

We arrived in Copán just after dark, and walked 50m from the bus stop to the hostel we had picked out called Los Gemelos. A lovely old lady greeted us and showed us the rooms, it costs about $5 per person. The rooms are basic and clean and fresh with a shared bathroom and a lovely courtyard full of flowers to look out on. We were pretty hungry and went in search of the Parque Central, where a lot of the eateries are. We found women cooking over hot embers with a grill making dinners for very cheap, so we had 2 carnitas each... a carnita is basically a kebab they have cooked over the embers (beef). They serve it to you in a plastic basket covered by a plastic sheet, the meat is taken off ... read more

The next day, after our shopping extravaganza we just spent a lazy day in La Ceiba. We walked to the opposite end of town that we had been in the previous day. We went all the way to the beach... about 30 mins walk through the centre of town and along to the nightclub district, but of course nothing was open except a few small shops. We had brought our salami sandwiches with us for lunch and bought some beers at a little comedor and ate. At one point a big truck pulled up next to the shop and it was full of gas cylinders, not sure if they were full or empty, im assuming full because a guy was sitting on top with a giant shotgun! not the safest idea in the world, one accident ... read more