Granada is a very colourful town and sometimes referred to as the ‘city of doors’ because of the lovely rows of houses that line the streets. Granada is the oldest city on continental Latin America, the founder was Hernandez de…
Will the Nicaragua Canal destroy Lake Nicaragua and Isla Ometepe?
It was time to visit Nicaragua’s famous island. Whilst I was waiting for the boat, I sat in a cafe that was next to the lake. It should have been a perfect place but there was a spider monkey chained…
Looking for lava at La Fortuna
I followed a Canadian girl to La Fortuna from Tortuguero as she seemed to know which different buses to take as there were quite a few changes to make. On one bus a tourist was so overweight that the conductor…
Slow TV: Boat trip along the Bridgewater Canal
A slow TV journey along the Bridgewater Canal in Manchester, from Stretford Marina to Castlefield and then back again.
Why Tortuguero is my favourite place in Costa Rica
Tortuguero is just heaven. Its a ballache to get to but it is heaven. I got a bus from Puerto Viejo to Puerto Limon and then onto Moin where you can get a boat which takes 3-4 hours. Moin is…
The yacht journey from Panama to Colombia via the San Blas Islands
On the morning that I left Colombia, we all got shared taxis from our hostel to the port to board our yacht. The captain of the ship was a grumpy, alcoholic Spaniard and he was assisted by an Argentinian woman…