Saturday 17th June 2006: NICARAGUA: San Juan Del Sur

We left Flores, Guatemala, on Thursday 15th, after watching England beat Trinidad & Tobago and took the overnight bus to Guatemala City arriving at 5am. We were fortunate to catch another bus straight away, direct to Managua, Nicaragua and arrived in San Juan on Saturday just in time for our friends 30th birthday party at an MTV Cribs style house with swimming pool overlooking the bay!

Incredibly, in the weeks that we have been away from San Juan, the countryside is now almost looks unrecogniseable. For the most part of our extended stay the surrounding hills and countryside was very dry and dusty, almost desert like, but now that the rains have started the country has been transformed into a luscious green jungle!

We decided to come back to San Juan in order to watch the World Cup with friends and for Oliver to surf plus our friend Eric had kindly invited us to stay with him in his lovely hilltop treehouse type house over looking the bay of San Juan – so here we are enjoying the surf, the company, the football, the poker games and the gorgeous views!


Sunset viewed from Eric's house