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Home away from home
Our school begins earlier than most. I was back at work August 5. Students started classes on the 12th. The first weeks of the term are always busy with gatherings: teacher meetings, assemblies, parent nights. This year those meetings more … Continue reading
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Tortuguero
After extending our stay on beautiful Ometepe, we were inclined to do the practical thing and head straight back to San José for the final days of our vacation. But I still really wanted to see Tortuguero National Park. The problem … Continue reading
Ometepe
Tonight is our fifth and last night on Ometepe, a volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua. The name comes from the Nahuatl words ome (two) and tepetl (mountain). The island consists of two volcanoes, Concepción and Maderas, joined by an isthmus … Continue reading
San Juan del Sur
This southwestern beach town forms one corner – along with Granada, where we just were, and Ometepe Island, where we’re going next – of the Nicaraguan tourist triangle. SJDS’s main draws are surfing and nightlife. We understand it’s become a … Continue reading
Hasta la vista, León
To illustrate yesterday’s Lonely Planet quote about León, here are the rest of my photos of this “city of awe-inspiring churches, fabulous art collections, stunning streetscapes, cosmopolitan eateries [for us, that means street food and the Central Market], fiery intellectualism, … Continue reading
Poets and revolutionaries
Tomorrow is our last day in León, Nicaragua. We almost didn’t come here. We figured we’d covered the colonial city thing well enough in Granada. But the description of León in our Lonely Planet guidebook as “a city of awe-inspiring churches, … Continue reading
DNA
This post is somewhat afield of my usual themes, though if you’re a regular reader you’ve probably caught on that genealogy is one of my hobbies. This summer I decided to pony up $100 to get my DNA analyzed. There are a couple of … Continue reading
So this is the tale of our castaways
The next morning we were in luck. Our taxi driver from the day before came to pick us up at the Big Fish. He informed us that the water was rough, but the panga was running. Hurray! We arrived in … Continue reading
Big Corn
At the airport in Managua we boarded a small plane bound for the tiny Corn Islands, 45 miles off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. There are two islands here: Big Corn Island and (predictably) Little Corn Island. Those are their … Continue reading
Granada
Costa Rica is beautiful, no doubt about it. But the tourist industry there is such a well-oiled machine, we were starting to feel like we were in Disneyland. When it comes to travel, we find we’re drawn to places that … Continue reading
Lorna of Arabia 