It’s always interesting coming back to a place where you’ve previously made great memories. Deja vu abounds and nostalgia too. My last visit to Monteverde included ziplining and that devil, the Tarzan swing, walking in the cloud forest and night safari and a trip to Don Juan’s to get the…
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
oasis on Ometepe
/ 11/03/2013Ometepe Island reminds me of a prank birthday cake we gave my father for his 40th. Ometepe is basically a small strip of land with two volcanoes reaching for the sky, Concepción and Maderas. While only lasting around 20 minutes, the local ex-school bus trip from the ferry terminal to…
groovy Granada
/ 11/03/2013Granada is a beautiful city featuring quaint streets filled with brightly coloured walls, great restaurants, market stalls in the central park, excellent cafes and coffee. Several of us loaded up on a huge day of sightseeing with local guide Ramón, starting with the Masaya Volcano. We stopped by the museum…
coming down in Comayagua
/ 07/03/2013As with all great destinations, their charm is usually half to do with the hard slog to reach them. As such, moving on from Roatán Island bound for Granada meant a two-day ferry and bus journey broken up by an overnight stay in less than salubrious surroundings in Comayagua. I…
Roatán Island 101
/ 07/03/2013Roatán Island off the coast of Honduras is a diving honeymooners dream. Surrounded by coral reef it looks to have over 100 dive sites, some with fairly humorous names like Bikini Bottom, Hole in the Wall and The Wife. In some places the reef wall goes down some 3000 feet.…