An Australian Dream
For everyone in Australia who loves to use limes in their cooking and their drinks… How about 12 juicy (yes they really are) limes for 50 cents?

For everyone in Australia who loves to use limes in their cooking and their drinks… How about 12 juicy (yes they really are) limes for 50 cents?

With Katrina and Daniel – a couple I met yesterday on the NicaAsí Cooking Tour – we decided to tackle the Vía Vía trivia quiz last night. It was good fun hanging out with a bunch of new people, and lasted longer than any other pub quiz I’ve ever done! It began an hour late (about 9:30pm) and…
Central America is well renowned for its “chicken buses”, essentially old, worn-out school buses from the US that get a second lease on life transporting the good folk of Central America and their produce (including animals, hence the name) from one place to another. They are all dilapidated (though brightly coloured) without any creature…
Still got a few blog posts coming from my time at La Mariposa Spanish School and EcoHotel 🙂 I mentioned previously that one of the wonderful things about the school is the sense of community it fosters amongst its students. For example, there were two families studying at the school over Easter, so the kids…
Arrived in Cuba and decided to get out of my confort zone by asking some other passengers whether they wanted to share a taxi into Havana (it’s US$25). I struck lucky on the second try and the added bonus was that the taxi we got was one of the old 1950s ones (those ones are…
It’s Semana Santa (Holy Week) here in Nicaragua and La Mariposa Spanish School put on a special trip for us so we could see the Vía Crucis Acuático around Las Isletas near Granada. After driving from an hour, we arrived in Granada at 8am and headed straight for our boat. We most definitely were not…
Another of our adventures at La Esquina del Lago Jungle River Lodge was to head up the Río Frio to the border with Costa Rica spotting birds and other animals. We left very early in the morning (Jackson was again our guide) with a beautiful mist over the river. The following are just a selection of the…