If you're literally just here to find out how to get to Little Corn Island then jump straight to Useful Shit. This isn't a recipe blog, you don't need my life story. But I feel like this two day mission needs a blog all of its very own so when I'm old and decrepit I [...]
I did consider filing this one under Granada's Murder Mountains on account of the fact it's a fuck off great big lake in the caldera of a volcano but Apoyo hasn't erupted for over 20000 years which pretty much makes it extinct. Plus we packed up all of our shit, left our lovely air conditioned [...]
Granada is the oldest city in Central America and the only reason it's not the capital of Nicaragua is on account of the fact it was basically at war with León about who should have that honour so eventually they were like, fuck it, Managua can be the capital, now stop your arguing. We liked [...]
I was mildly hungover from the previous evening's rum related indulgences. My womb had chosen today to engage in The Wringing and felt like it was twisting itself into impossible shapes in order to expel that pesky lining it insists on producing every fucking month. It was a bit breezy today and the lake was [...]
The journey across the island was an emotional one, at least the bus from Balgüe to Altagracia was. By the time it rolled through the village it was jam packed, it was human Tetris. They'd even managed to squeeze a whole arse dirt bike on there. Tarrant stared at the carnage in horror as the [...]
Balgüe is a tiny, chilled little place which is exactly what we wanted it to be. We found a local comedor (eatery) selling Nicaraguan food, plus there are tourist restaurants should you fancy a splurge. The pulperías, convenience stores, are tiny and don't stock much but as long as we can get egg, bread and [...]
It's been a glorious few weeks not having to worry a huge amount about scams, especially on public transport. In Panama there was never any question that they'd charge us more because we're foreign, we simply paid the same as everyone else when we got off the bus. Same in Costa Rica, you'd just pay [...]
On account of the fact we're hemorrhaging money right now we decided to choose between La Fortuna and Monterverde rather than doing both, then we'd head to the border and get into Nicaragua which would (hopefully) be a bit cheaper. We went for La Fortuna on account of the fact we'd already seen some nice [...]
It was a day of nod-sleeping on two buses between Puerto Viejo and Manuel Antonio. I don't know what it is about bus travel but it absolutely knackers me, more than if we were actually doing something productive. It's only two buses though, pretty straight forward, with an Uber between two terminals in San Jose [...]
Yesterday was probably the quickest, easiest border crossing I've ever had the pleasure of doing. The whole thing took about half an hour including a brief detour to have an expensive wee. There were no queues on the Saturday morning. We were stamped out of Panama, walked over the bridge, were stamped into Costa Rica [...]
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