Hi all,
Like lots of things in life, travel doesn't always turn out quite as you imagined it would.
This is the case for us on the Isle of Ometepe.
This place was one of the highlights that Hasi had been looking forward to.
Beaches round the lake, where you can swim while watching the volcanoes, swinging in the hammock by the lakeside, cycling through the villages in the sunshine.
Except none of this has eventuated.
We left our cell this morning and caught the local bus to the next town, Altagracia.
We thought this might be a bit more interesting.
This is a rural island, where main crops seem to be bananas, papayas, tobacco. There are pigs and chickens roaming the streets of town, Cowboys on their horses and horse drawn wagons.
The people are poor.
Hasi says it's depressing here.
Unfortunately the weather is not on our side, and after an overcast morning wondering round the town, it poured raining all afternoon. We have now decided there are no volcanoes in Nicaragua,it's a myth.
So tomorrow we will leave the isle and continue on our travels.
We hope the sun is out at our next destination.
Tonight we are staying in another cement cell, just a bit bigger and cleaner than the one last night, and Hasi reminds me, it's half the price of what we paid last night.
Nicaragua is not as cheap as we had expected.
I think we are getting old and unable to cope as well as we did when we were younger! Cement cells would not have phased us, this is the way people live here, so why should we expect anything else?
Having said that I am sending the email crew a photo of the "view" we have from our verandah. It really is pretty bad. Also one of our room here.
Anyway, that's travel, you never know what's around the corner.
So again we should be in bed by 8pm by the looks of it, so we can get up,and on our way, first thing in the morning.
So that's our lot,
Love to all, Zak
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