After wrapping up our fastly accumulated live in Granada we are on the road again and arrived yesterday in beautiful Antigua in Guatemala. Leaving Granada and the job are one thing but having to leave little Oscar and Ometepe is a totally different thing. We really come to love our little fur balls a lot and it was difficult leaving them at the Spanish school on Friday. I am sure you are happy to know though that they have tripled in size from the photos in May that I published on my last blog entry.

Friday was also our last day at work and Maria, the owner of the hostel and her husband Joge invited us to their weekend house in Pochomil on the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua. There they showed us a really good time and fed us different kinds of local seafood’s basically from arrival to departure. The two really have a lovely house with pool and we enjoyed hot water for the first time in several month when we sat in the whir pool. Coincidentally the president Alvaro Alemán and some other friends came by the house later that night and we talked, drank and ate with a real president. He is not the president in office right now but the power sharing agreement between him and Daniel Ortega means that he still is very influential in Nicaraguan politics. Anyway, it was weird because we did not expect to meet the ex president anytime soon.

Granada has been so lovely and I am very glad that we had the opportunity to return there and spend some time. Working at the hostel has really given us a good insight into the hostel life and we have learned that our dream of opening our own hostel is really what we want to do in life. Of course we have also encountered negatives and things we would like to make different but on a whole we are very grateful for the good opportunity. Now we just have to find a place where we would like to open our own place and get some money for a deposit together. That is of course easier said than done. Having said that, Luke and I are still really set on the idea and are eager to fulfilling our dream.

On Tuesday we took the direct Bus to Guatemala City. After the 18 hour bus journey, by the way we did not encounter any problems passing through Honduras, we took a direct Taxi to Antigua. We only arrived here last night and after a quick bite to eat all we could think about was bed.

Today we roamed around town and re-discovered places that we had visited together last time we met up in Antigua. We even had another romantic pick-nick in the old ruins of the monastery, just as we did seven years ago. Very romantic in deed. Tomorrow night we are off to Flores in the north of Guatemala, which is the place to go when you want to see the beautiful Maya Ruins of Tikal. We are moving quite fast as we are already fast approaching the end of our travels. I guess we still have a little stop over in Vancouver to see lovely Elisha. Hasta pronto amigos, with more info and some photos!