Fri 0838 just had surprisingly decent if small free breakfast burritk thing (tortilla wrapped round gallo pinto and scrambled egg?) With a bit of pico de gallo and some watermelon srgmenta. Also free coffee with milk. There didn't seem much space round by where they were serving so I brought mond round to kitchen. I may go hang round there a bit after with some coffee.
Wearing red as shirt after basic dressing and have done teeth but not put sun block on yet.
Dorm must have air con to some degree, it was mildly cold in the night and the heat also hit me when coming out.
I didn't sleep great but not terrible. I woke up about 11-midnight and maybe a bit in the night and have been mostly awake reading in bed since maybe 6ish, which sucks but it was just too early to get up and I felt a bit hungry but not much and didn't really need a piss.
I do feel vaguely "wtf am I going to do with myself?" And not super like I am going to have great social success and the heat feels mildly theoretically oopresaive (but there is a fan here and while it makes handling napkins a nightmare it is actually quite pleasant). Overall I do feel relatively OK though. Tempted to finish yesterdays sandwich stiff but probably better to do that later.
There was a bit of snoring in the night but nothing major, nothing like yesterday afternoon. I also when I went to bed rigged my blanket up (which I didn't expect to need, and probably wouldn't have used even if I hadn't used it for this, despite the mild chill) as a sort of catch-net at the top of the bed, which while not ibfallible would help if the phone dis get knocked over the top of the mattress during the night.
There are lots of mostly paid activity posters around and tbh most don't really appeal even if we set aside age and social type shit. I need to remember that this stiff is suggestions not demands and that ior anyone else can have a very full, interesting, exciting etc trip without doing any of this. Just cherry pick, or nothing if that feels best. There is some stiff about aurf lessons and tbh it is vaguely tempting to do a beginner lesson just for the hell of it, but tbh I think to whatever extent I am going to mess around with his it makes sense to dedicate eg a week or more to doing this every day etc and doing a quick taster type aession where I am inevitably not going to be able to balance myself for more than about 0.4 seconds is at best going to what my appetite and then likely leave me wanting more but not really placed to do it, or is going to dishearten me from giving it a serious try in the future today is the 4 week point I think and I obviously could afford to spend a week leaning to turn right now If I wanted, but I am not massively eneegised, I am sure my swimming is basically good enough for this beginner type stuff (although sea?) But also unless you surf on the lake here, it would involves buses to the beach etc and frankly it just seems a slightly silly spot to suddenly decide to do it. If I really did want to, it would make more sense to go over to an actual beach place and do it there.
There are various slightly ovelrty getting pissed and youngish and beachwear type booze cruises and stu% advertised which don't massively appeal. There is some sort of full day beach thing for about 14 dollars which I noticed includes free use of kayak and that is vaguely tempting, it would be good if I could get some low stress mucking about in a kayak or canoe or something in now I have the swimming mildly dialled in, but I am not so sure about this specific thing, and I am not sure I really want to be bussed over somewhere for the day and it to be too full on sun etc. OTOH with caution this could give me an opportunity to get some swimming in too and if it is in the lake (but maybe it isnt the lake right by the city but another one?) It may not be too far and going by bus from hostel would remove most of the worst case loss/theft aspects. I only really saw this when getting breakfast (just maybe last night) so I will chew on it. It may be better to try some canoeish stuff at Isla ometepeque though.
I am likely to extend for another night here one way or another. I - and this may just be fortune telling - feel the hostel is a bit big and a bit young and groupy for me to really get much chat on but in the worst case, except for the not that bad upper bunk, it is fairly comfortable, the dorm does in practice have air con, the laundry is cheap and it is a perfectly fine base to see granada and decide what to do next and where to go etc. I don't need to rush, as long as I am not literally sitting around all day every day I am fine to spend a few days here.
I don't want to not do stuff just because of this but I am likely to come back via granada after Isla onetepeque so I could eg so this kayaking thing then, but I don't really think this is a super helpful way to think.
That said, it may be that eg doing this day lake kayak buffet thing tonorrow would be a bad move, since it is Saturday and while from a tourist pov that makes little difference, it may be busier with locals, depending exactly what kind of place it is.
0906 got another coffee. The lake thing with the kayaks is lago de apoyo, a crater lake 20 mins away, it is something like 10am to 430pm. About 14 dollars. It doesn't feel perfect but does feel like it might work, but it does feel like even ignoring any other qualms I might have, the uv aspect isn't great.
I do feel a bit BNM here but not massively worried about it.
1013 ok put sunblock on and wearing blue rs top. Feel a bit sticky. Signed up for free walking tour which leaves from reception at 1030. Sitting at a table by some guys who also seem to be doing it.
I feel broadly fine, has a big dump and I feel sort of hollow (!) Which gives me bizarre "am I healthy?" Concerns but in reality I so feel basically fine, I think a little psychologically on edge and socially uneasy and the heat isn't great. Just keep it chill, do the tour, then I can spend the afternoon doing a little light sightseeing, eztend for a night and toy with future plans (tonorrow, next few days). There is some slightly melancholy coffee shop type piano music playing which is perhaps also having some subtly arty film depressing effect on my psyche. :-)
1337 walking tout on if not great, guide seemed nice enough but he rambled and his English was just a touch hard to understand.
I had the idea during the walk to cook myself hot dogs for dinner and I just had some, tbh not very satisfactory but I did it. Once I gave washed my plate up I will have a coke zero I bought.
I feel a bit full and a bit hot and not quite honesick but sort of fed up and out of place and not really panicky but half wondering what the fuck to do next. I have extended for tonorrow night btw I could do some kind of tour or go to that nearby lake tomorrow and to be fair even if that is vaguely miserable at worst (lonely and or beachy or uv stressy) it in practice need not be a huge deal. Albeit I am really not sure I feel like forcing myself to swim. I dunno. Maybe I just feel a bit bad because I am slightly bloated. I still have my leftover sandwich materials but will have those later or tomorrow.
2218 on utterly deserted hostle terrace. I think everyone is at treehouse not joking.
I dithered and did some research and went out for walk down to amelcon (heading out down mildly sketchy road, coming back down calzada with ita bars) had a raspado (tamarind and guava with leche) at a small bike type stall from friendly ish chap which was actually a lot nicer and more satiafyonf than I expected when I bought it. Was milling over onward plans and has been feeling rather down and I finally after more dithering booked hostel tour to apoyo tomorrow and hostel shuttle to sa kn Juan (? For boat to ometepe) for sun and a cheap private room at an I suspect will be deserted but fuck it hostel on onwtwpe for two nights (can extend, if I spend a week on Thailand having fun a or relaxing that is fine).
I also took some laundry in, they said they could only tumble dry it low what and I dithered and said yes then they came back and said they were going to line dr for anyway.
A chap I tbh barely recognised but half did and who may have been the speed rexors guy at my volcano boarding said hi as I was handing in my laundry and we chatted very rbridltz he is doing the treehouse party
I had the three free drinks at social hour with hardly anyone around (greenhouse starts 4pm iirc and I think most people get shuttle over 6ish) and the went over to calzada where I had probably four beers at some random and where they were 60 each on the menu and yet the bill was nyareriouslt 330 plus optional tip and I should really have politely queried this but just maybe it was 5 beers and it isnt a huge amount but I probably wasr ripped off ans a polite query wouldn't have hurt and I was one of a handful of customers but I was just drunk enough not to want to push it. Not a bad id quietish night.
Mixed feeling about apoyo tomorrow but hey it will be something to do and it might be nice and maybe a chance to swim and or kayak.
I so and have felt a bit low and old andisolates but not ok bad right now.
I think that is basically where we stand, not a perfect write up but basically itm at malexon while atonf reasonable locals were talking and an old-ish woman seemed to be saying something about how it was a shame wwe were
Losing such a beautful view so maybe the area ja being redeceloped or closed but i resisted the very very implementation (minor temptation as I meant to write butb OSK) to try to join the cknveration.
Spanish language rock at the bar tongith, maybe all the foreigners are at treehouse the waiter is at least speaking to me in Spanish
One guy in dorm in bed below mine, cest la vie. Have done teeth. Will likely go to bed shortly. Pickup 10 for apoyo need to faff with clothes and glases etc, but should be fine and wi) l have breakfast etc and expect to ;eup pretty early despite the four beers and the didn't feel that strong though did look like a generous pour free rum and frescas.
2247 feels a bit mosquito-y out here. Let's send this and go to bed.
Wearing red as shirt after basic dressing and have done teeth but not put sun block on yet.
Dorm must have air con to some degree, it was mildly cold in the night and the heat also hit me when coming out.
I didn't sleep great but not terrible. I woke up about 11-midnight and maybe a bit in the night and have been mostly awake reading in bed since maybe 6ish, which sucks but it was just too early to get up and I felt a bit hungry but not much and didn't really need a piss.
I do feel vaguely "wtf am I going to do with myself?" And not super like I am going to have great social success and the heat feels mildly theoretically oopresaive (but there is a fan here and while it makes handling napkins a nightmare it is actually quite pleasant). Overall I do feel relatively OK though. Tempted to finish yesterdays sandwich stiff but probably better to do that later.
There was a bit of snoring in the night but nothing major, nothing like yesterday afternoon. I also when I went to bed rigged my blanket up (which I didn't expect to need, and probably wouldn't have used even if I hadn't used it for this, despite the mild chill) as a sort of catch-net at the top of the bed, which while not ibfallible would help if the phone dis get knocked over the top of the mattress during the night.
There are lots of mostly paid activity posters around and tbh most don't really appeal even if we set aside age and social type shit. I need to remember that this stiff is suggestions not demands and that ior anyone else can have a very full, interesting, exciting etc trip without doing any of this. Just cherry pick, or nothing if that feels best. There is some stiff about aurf lessons and tbh it is vaguely tempting to do a beginner lesson just for the hell of it, but tbh I think to whatever extent I am going to mess around with his it makes sense to dedicate eg a week or more to doing this every day etc and doing a quick taster type aession where I am inevitably not going to be able to balance myself for more than about 0.4 seconds is at best going to what my appetite and then likely leave me wanting more but not really placed to do it, or is going to dishearten me from giving it a serious try in the future today is the 4 week point I think and I obviously could afford to spend a week leaning to turn right now If I wanted, but I am not massively eneegised, I am sure my swimming is basically good enough for this beginner type stuff (although sea?) But also unless you surf on the lake here, it would involves buses to the beach etc and frankly it just seems a slightly silly spot to suddenly decide to do it. If I really did want to, it would make more sense to go over to an actual beach place and do it there.
There are various slightly ovelrty getting pissed and youngish and beachwear type booze cruises and stu% advertised which don't massively appeal. There is some sort of full day beach thing for about 14 dollars which I noticed includes free use of kayak and that is vaguely tempting, it would be good if I could get some low stress mucking about in a kayak or canoe or something in now I have the swimming mildly dialled in, but I am not so sure about this specific thing, and I am not sure I really want to be bussed over somewhere for the day and it to be too full on sun etc. OTOH with caution this could give me an opportunity to get some swimming in too and if it is in the lake (but maybe it isnt the lake right by the city but another one?) It may not be too far and going by bus from hostel would remove most of the worst case loss/theft aspects. I only really saw this when getting breakfast (just maybe last night) so I will chew on it. It may be better to try some canoeish stuff at Isla ometepeque though.
I am likely to extend for another night here one way or another. I - and this may just be fortune telling - feel the hostel is a bit big and a bit young and groupy for me to really get much chat on but in the worst case, except for the not that bad upper bunk, it is fairly comfortable, the dorm does in practice have air con, the laundry is cheap and it is a perfectly fine base to see granada and decide what to do next and where to go etc. I don't need to rush, as long as I am not literally sitting around all day every day I am fine to spend a few days here.
I don't want to not do stuff just because of this but I am likely to come back via granada after Isla onetepeque so I could eg so this kayaking thing then, but I don't really think this is a super helpful way to think.
That said, it may be that eg doing this day lake kayak buffet thing tonorrow would be a bad move, since it is Saturday and while from a tourist pov that makes little difference, it may be busier with locals, depending exactly what kind of place it is.
0906 got another coffee. The lake thing with the kayaks is lago de apoyo, a crater lake 20 mins away, it is something like 10am to 430pm. About 14 dollars. It doesn't feel perfect but does feel like it might work, but it does feel like even ignoring any other qualms I might have, the uv aspect isn't great.
I do feel a bit BNM here but not massively worried about it.
1013 ok put sunblock on and wearing blue rs top. Feel a bit sticky. Signed up for free walking tour which leaves from reception at 1030. Sitting at a table by some guys who also seem to be doing it.
I feel broadly fine, has a big dump and I feel sort of hollow (!) Which gives me bizarre "am I healthy?" Concerns but in reality I so feel basically fine, I think a little psychologically on edge and socially uneasy and the heat isn't great. Just keep it chill, do the tour, then I can spend the afternoon doing a little light sightseeing, eztend for a night and toy with future plans (tonorrow, next few days). There is some slightly melancholy coffee shop type piano music playing which is perhaps also having some subtly arty film depressing effect on my psyche. :-)
1337 walking tout on if not great, guide seemed nice enough but he rambled and his English was just a touch hard to understand.
I had the idea during the walk to cook myself hot dogs for dinner and I just had some, tbh not very satisfactory but I did it. Once I gave washed my plate up I will have a coke zero I bought.
I feel a bit full and a bit hot and not quite honesick but sort of fed up and out of place and not really panicky but half wondering what the fuck to do next. I have extended for tonorrow night btw I could do some kind of tour or go to that nearby lake tomorrow and to be fair even if that is vaguely miserable at worst (lonely and or beachy or uv stressy) it in practice need not be a huge deal. Albeit I am really not sure I feel like forcing myself to swim. I dunno. Maybe I just feel a bit bad because I am slightly bloated. I still have my leftover sandwich materials but will have those later or tomorrow.
2218 on utterly deserted hostle terrace. I think everyone is at treehouse not joking.
I dithered and did some research and went out for walk down to amelcon (heading out down mildly sketchy road, coming back down calzada with ita bars) had a raspado (tamarind and guava with leche) at a small bike type stall from friendly ish chap which was actually a lot nicer and more satiafyonf than I expected when I bought it. Was milling over onward plans and has been feeling rather down and I finally after more dithering booked hostel tour to apoyo tomorrow and hostel shuttle to sa kn Juan (? For boat to ometepe) for sun and a cheap private room at an I suspect will be deserted but fuck it hostel on onwtwpe for two nights (can extend, if I spend a week on Thailand having fun a or relaxing that is fine).
I also took some laundry in, they said they could only tumble dry it low what and I dithered and said yes then they came back and said they were going to line dr for anyway.
A chap I tbh barely recognised but half did and who may have been the speed rexors guy at my volcano boarding said hi as I was handing in my laundry and we chatted very rbridltz he is doing the treehouse party
I had the three free drinks at social hour with hardly anyone around (greenhouse starts 4pm iirc and I think most people get shuttle over 6ish) and the went over to calzada where I had probably four beers at some random and where they were 60 each on the menu and yet the bill was nyareriouslt 330 plus optional tip and I should really have politely queried this but just maybe it was 5 beers and it isnt a huge amount but I probably wasr ripped off ans a polite query wouldn't have hurt and I was one of a handful of customers but I was just drunk enough not to want to push it. Not a bad id quietish night.
Mixed feeling about apoyo tomorrow but hey it will be something to do and it might be nice and maybe a chance to swim and or kayak.
I so and have felt a bit low and old andisolates but not ok bad right now.
I think that is basically where we stand, not a perfect write up but basically itm at malexon while atonf reasonable locals were talking and an old-ish woman seemed to be saying something about how it was a shame wwe were
Losing such a beautful view so maybe the area ja being redeceloped or closed but i resisted the very very implementation (minor temptation as I meant to write butb OSK) to try to join the cknveration.
Spanish language rock at the bar tongith, maybe all the foreigners are at treehouse the waiter is at least speaking to me in Spanish
One guy in dorm in bed below mine, cest la vie. Have done teeth. Will likely go to bed shortly. Pickup 10 for apoyo need to faff with clothes and glases etc, but should be fine and wi) l have breakfast etc and expect to ;eup pretty early despite the four beers and the didn't feel that strong though did look like a generous pour free rum and frescas.
2247 feels a bit mosquito-y out here. Let's send this and go to bed.
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