May 2009
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Mexico
Time for another proper update, We’ve managed to squeeze in a lot of stuff over the last few weeks, I’ll try and remember most of it.
We ended up leaving Hotel Chancletas in N Nicaragua a day early, the surf was amazing every day, but unfortunately there’s nothing else to do there at all.
So we’d get up early, Charlie would take photo’s and I’d surf in the...
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How many Nicaraguan men does it take to change a...
charliesnooks:
The answer is lots! After our stay in Leon we had a long day of travelling to get all the way to La Libertad in El Salvador.
It all started at 9:30am when a dodgy looking taxi arrived to pick us up from the hostel, we then got dropped off a someones house and waited in their living room for our coach.
The coach was very hot and full of central american residents which gave us a...
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Honduras, El Salvador and Gautemala
We have arrived in Antigua, Gautemala, we were without internet for a week or so in El Salvador so I’m busily uploading some photo’s in case all our stuff gets nicked, which according to the travel advice sites is quite likely.
I’ll put a proper update on sometime soon, we’ve done a lot over the last 10 days or so, mostly fun but some hairy moments.
Antigua looks nice,...
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Chilling in Chinandega
Well, near Chinandega, not too sure if I should give away the location of this particular surf camp, I’d love to come back here and I’m afraid if people knew about the quality and consistency of the waves it might get even more over-run.
Charlie and I are in a Cabana, a private room with a hammock outside, overlooking a nice beach on the NW coast of Nicaragua. The waves are glassy...
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Nicaragua
A proper update is due, we are now in Nicaragua, we’ve already stayed for a few nights in Popoyo (pronounced po-poi-yah) where the surf was really good fun and the accomodation was more expensive than we’d have liked, but very nice.
Getting to Popoyo from Tamarindo was fairly straightforward, involving getting the 9am bus from outside the local bank to Liberia - the bus takes ages to...