I’ve been slack. I apologise. I’ve been lazy and not written an update for two whole months.   How have you coped? Are you OK? I promise (with fingers crossed behind my screen) to write more often. I also promise to write full updates on the weeks between September and now (December 10th) at some … More 2 months travel update

At last we have arrived in South America! 🙂Cartagena is a fantastic city. It’s got old and new towns just like Panama has, it’s also set along the coast just like Panama, but given the choice of the two, Cartagena wins every time. An old Spanish fort dominates Cartagena from behind and impressive walls almost … More South America – Colombia and heading east along the coast

I’ve been through Panama City twice now and I really like it. The old town is wonderful to explore and half in ruins (though there is so much regeneration work going on that it will not be like this for long!) and the new city has some wonderful architecture and all the shopping you could … More Panama City

So, I am once again a little behind! As I write this it is the 3rd October and I have lots to tell as we have crossed three borders, found some fantastic beaches, drank rum, explored castles, got lost up a mountain, got stuck on a cable car and had my fortieth birthday! However, I … More Río San Juan – San Carlos and El Castillio

Journey to Granada After a a couple of nights in León relaxing (drinking rum, catching up with Facebook and doing some washing) we set off for Granada, as always, at a leisurely pace. It took two chicken buses to get there, changing at Managua (the capital), and we arrived at Granada about 4 hours later … More Nicaragua – Granada and Ometepe

I’ve been travelling now for 4 months. Off work for 8 months. Previous to which I’d been working for 24 years and in total I have been alive for almost 40 years. Yes, you read that right. 40. FORTY. You’d think that in that time I’d have gotten to know myself pretty well and in … More Know thyself

We left Estelí heading towards León at a very leisurely midday ish. Two buses, a puncture and a very bald spare tyre later and we arrived! The journey was amusing for two man facts: the chap sitting over the tyre that blew almost shat himself and ran half way down the bus to escape the … More Nicaragua; León, beach life and a volcano.

Crossing the border from Honduras proved pretty painless apart from the customs charges (about £8 in total) but made more difficult by them only excepting local currency and I had already changed my cash. Lesson learnt there – wait until you are in country before cashing in. Once through we caught a bus to Ocotal … More Nicaragua; Week one – farming.

Lake Yajoa and The D&D We arrived at the north end of Lake Yajoa (though lake not in sight) around 3pm, having left Utila on the 06:20 ferry and then taken a bus from La Cieba to San Pedro Sula and having jumped straight onto another bus (ok, we had a hour break for lunch … More La Ceiba to Nicaragua with stops along the way.

Getting to UtilaOur first stop in Honduras was San Pedro Sulu and it took us around 5 hours to get there. From there we took another bus to La Ceiba way out on the east coast. Neither place gets a good write up in the lonely planet and as neither was on our hit list … More Utila!