Hi everybody,
The same as at my last post. It´s again a long time ago that I left a message on my blog. Anyhow, with this message I want to inform you that everything is still fine and of course to tell you more about what I did last months. My stay in Nicaragua was weird and worthy. The first days were a bit calm because I was recovering from a sinus-infection who I increased during diving. I stayed in Leon, one of the many colonial villages in Central America. I hung around and saw the main spots of the town. After that I stayed for a week in San Juan del Sur where I took my first surf classes. I started with a conceit of one of world’s best surf dudes but you can expect that I felt really disappointed at the end of the day. Anyhow it was a nice experience and I spend the rest of the week on the beach and a board. One of the best hostels I had was by the way at my first night over there. During my checkin one of the reception assigned me to one of the beds in a dorm. After dropping some stuff on the bed I went with some guys for dinner and drink. After getting home and starting my sleep somebody woke me up in the middle of he night to tell me to leave the bed because the bed was hers. Expectable is it not wise to wake me up what ended up in a visit of the security guard at my bed. He asked me friendly to move to the bed beneath it what was full of clothes and books. As tired as I was I threw al that stuff from the bed and continued my sleep till a couple of hours later I got waken up again with the friendly request to leave that other bed. A mistake at the reception caused a horrible night who I continued in a hammock. Finally I got loads of excuses, my money back and a free breakfast. After leaving this beautiful surfing town I was planning to go to Isla Ometepe, and islands what exists in a lake in the centre of Nicaragua and exists out of two volcanos. The trip took a bit longer as expected cause I had a two hours stop at a police station. On of the nice local people felt attracted two take my wallet what includes the big amount of less than $10, student card and my driver’s license. Hopefully he’ll buy some beautiful clothes or a nice beer with the money. As also written in my last message, it’s better to see the pictures… It’s just beautiful. The other days in Nicaragua I spend in Grenada, a colonial town with a nice nightlife, and good spots around. I did daytrips to a volcano and a crater lake to hang out. The first of my part stay in Costa Rica was in Puerto Viejo, a Caribean hippie town. Same as the town itself the hostel was really laidback and most of people are just hanging around and spending there the days with swimming, drinking and eating a bit. The biggest shock I had was the first week of May while entering Panama City. In a big contrast with all other capitals this city exist over a huge skyline, harbour full of yacht’s and shopping malls. A day hanging out in that part of the city did me reminding to my stay in the US a couple of years ago. My other days I spend in the old town and with a visit to the Panama Canal. The last part of Panama I spend on Bocas del Toro, an group of islands in front of Panaman Caribean coast. As it already sais, islands in the Caribean sea. The morning was to wake up with a coffee, the daytime to drink some rum and coke on the beach and the nighttime for party and dinner! After almost two weeks where the only things next two that I’ve done were watching soccer I moved back into Costa Rica. Today I moved out of Montezuma, a town at the pacific side of the country famous for surfing and chilling. Most of the days I spend on the beach and I did also a visit to one of the dirtiest waterfalls ever full of brown water. On my way from Bocas I had to do a stopover for a night in San Jose where I saw Ajax – Twente. As expectable all the Costa Ricans supported Twente cause of their striker Bryan Ruiz. A view in a couple of newspapers showed that he´s unbelievable populair over there. They are writing with full pride over the influence of him on Twente. Anyhow, the lose of Twente didn´t influenced the mood of the locals so I was able to move safely to my next spot.
Now, I’ll stay my last days in Monteverde, a town in the mountains of Costa Rica to discover more of the nature and wildlife over here. On Tuesday I’ll return to San Jose because my flight for part two of the trip starts on Wednesday, California!