While Away...

Nicaragua part 2: Sorry Just realised we never uploaded this blog! The next day we ate some breakfast, then headed off to the bus stop to get to our Workaway. We originally intended to take a taxi, but someone tried to charge us $2 each so we decided 2km wasn’t all that far after all. We jumped on the bus to Poneloya and were surprised to find many other tourists on the bus heading to popular beach of Las Penitas which is adjacent to Poneloya. After getting off the bus, it was a quick walk to a bar where we had been told to get a boat across to the island. Isla Los Brasiles is a small peninsula, mostly made up of sand and mangroves that is separated from the mainland by a small river estuary. The boat ride took about 5 minutes with an approximately 40-minute walk through mangrove forest to reach Carpe Diem. Arriving as sweaty tired messes with unwieldy backpacks we were struck by the beautiful palapa made of wood and palm fronds, cob cabañas and the amazing beachscape less than 10 ...

It seems every time I sit down to write our blog I am apologising for the length of time between writing. Well, it has been another long break before getting you folks up to date with our adventures. Last time we left you we had just finished our time in Copan Ruinas in Honduras. Our next destination was the country of El Salvador where we had a WorkAway arranged with a tourist cooperative called Nubes del (Clouds of) Pital. For the uninitiated, Workaway is a website which connects volunteers with hosts who offer accommodation and food for help on projects such as organic farms, hostels and many more. Back to the story. We left Copan at what we thought was the reasonable time of 9am in the morning, which later you will see came back to bite us. We had many bus changes from there. The journey was longer and more tedious than expected even with the beautiful countryside. Suffice to say after 4 long bus journeys we got to the border a lot later than expected and thou...