As is usually the case, the image that one has about a place has little to do with the reality on the ground and everything to do with the extremes highlighted by the media. So it was for me…
Salsa, merengue and bachata
Seeing as I now live in a Latin culture, makes sense to me to take advantage and get the hips movin, so I am taking salsa, merenge and bachata classes across the road at the gym/yoga center. I used to…
Semana Santa – a serious and sombre week
Weeks before Semana Santa (Easter) there was a build up of expectation and activity, mostly in the form of mournful processions in the very wee hours of the morning at dawn. Every church in each neighborhood has its own effigy…
How does one prepare for a trip to Haiti?
Ben leaves tomorrow for Haiti for meetings with various organizations and entities interested in sustainable low cost bamboo housing, and it occurs to me that on a personal emotional level there is no way to prepare for witnessing the devastation…
100 post mark! High level overview
OK, so when we started this blog, we hoped we would keep it going and it is with some degree of self-satisfaction that we can say that the first 100 posts lived up to the potential of our “empty nesters…
Stray Dogs paintings on show in Granada
Peta’s Stray Dogs of Nicaragua series will be shown, starting this week, at Granada’s new hip hotel, Mombacho Beach Club. In fact, the owner now refers to the main…
Muchas Gracias….
Muchas gracias to Lynne Gomez who sent a donation to help contribute to buying school supplies for Nicaraguan children. Lynne read about us in Ageless Northshore which is an online newspaper which ran an article about our activities and move…
Street happenings
Last week, on friday at 4am in the morning, we were awoken by the sound of a live band playing in front of our house. We could hear the tuba, drums and the sad melody of the trumpet. Unusual music,…