Sun, Sea and Sand

After our close encounter of the primate kind, we caught the ferry back to the mainland and made the short journey to a beach town called San Juan del Sur on the Pacific coast. With a really laid back charm, it was the perfect place to enjoy the sun, sea and sand for a few days, and hugely improved by having the car,

which gave us the flexibility to explore the local beaches at our leisure. On our second day there we picked up some brilliant sandwiches (go for the Daniel Ortega with added olives) from Captain Jim's sandwich shop and headed to Maderas beach where we discovered a slice of paradise. Beautiful clean sand, fun surf, abundant sunshine and some classic bleached driftwood artfully sacttered about the place. The further reaches of the beach a little way down the coast by foot were all but deserted and utterly lovely, so we spent an idyllic afternoon doing not very much. Later, pursuing our obsession with all things alimentary, we tracked down a delicious street barbeque where for next to nothing you got a huge plate of rice, beans, plantain and freshly grilled meat, all served byt he most friendly lady we had met in ages. It was hard to tear the boys away.

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua