Hello all! Just a quickie to say we´re off to paradise and we´ll be out of touch for the next 10 days at least. We skipped the volcano tour near Granada for a quicker arrival at the beaches... Before leaving Granada, however, we did have a great swim in a volcanic lake - Laguna de Apoyo - just outside Granada... allegedly the cleanest b ody of water in Nicaragua. We ventured up to a spot called the Monkey Hut, obvisously targeting our kind. We jumped off the mini pier, did back dives off the floating dock and kayaked across the whole lake - a shoulder wrenching epic into the wind that took at least an hour out and a nice wind-at-the-back 30 minutes back. After having another nice meal in Granada that night and a quick shop from a lovely Guatemala couple in the central plaza, we got our last night´s sleep in Granada... off to San Juan Del Sur in the morning!
We humped our packs and boards to the buses, running through crowded market streets, sweating our selves into little puddles in an effort to make the 9.50AM bus... and I think it was then that we were hussled... the little man at the bus area was shouting our destination so we ran over, handed over our swag, which was quickly loaded onto the bus and then got on... the first two people.... hmmmm... It wasn´t until about 20 minutes later that it dawned on us that the bus we were running for was already off and we were going to have to wait for the next.... 11am bus... so...Our journey consisted of two hours on a parked bus, chatting up the little child vendors - sweating our asses off - followed by an hour on a moving bus to Rivas where we negotiated a cab to San Juan del Sur. Here, we got a nice room at a hostel that has private rooms and dorm set ups... we ate on the harbor - ceviche and pasta con mariscos (seafood) and then watched the sun set from adirondack chairs overlooking the harbor and a rainbow of fishing boats. I can´t say I slept well as I had to endure the girl in the neigboring room having two, yes ladies, two very long and loud orgasms (sorry parents) followed by the unacceptable smoking of a cigarette by her stud that wafted horrible smoke into my room, and that followed by the incessant chirping of a mystery animal in the room with us...well... not the best night of rest so far!
This morning we got on a surfer shuttle to the nearby beach break, with a pack of Aussies, two Brits and a mystery national ... you know, the one who speaks English as well as me but to whom I never had the chance to ask 'And where are you from?' Anyway, 20 minutes and 14km of terrible road later, we arrived at Playa Maderas....That my friends, is where we found paradise... a nice stretch of white sand with barely any other people and amazing high tide breaks with fun swimming and sunning in between. Matilda, of Tiendas de Matilda, the camping area, has a room ready for us tomorrow, so we´re up and out in the AM to surf, lie in hammocks, eat food cooked over an open fire and chill for the next chunk of time... PS - they have a mini pincher doggie there... not quite the breed of choice, but enough to keep me happy while away from my boys!
Cheers folks! I´ll join you back in reality sooner than I´d like! Chau!
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