Stu.
Ok folks I´ll start with a little apology, suprisingly we have fallen behind in the blog, you know it´s a catch 22 situation, we have chosen to actually be out doing new things to write about rather than writing the things we have done! The date today is 6th July and we are in Nicaragua - Still safe and haven´t been robbed, hurt, hijacked or kidnapped- Good times.
However I am writing about Antigua, which was a month ago, it just means your gonna get the gist or what we did but maybe not the little details coz I can barely remeber what I had for breakfast let alone how I felt 4 weeks ago :-)
I had some cerial and a coffee.
Antigua´s quite a nice place although we were only here for a day to start with, we actually made it in time for the room we had booked at EarthLodge, part Hostel part Avacado farm up in the hills.
Wow.
We were anticipating quite a nice place because had been recommended by a friend (thanks Helen!) but it really is somethin else.
Picture if you will a really big hill, now think of it a bit bigger, well EarthLodge is three quaters of the way up a massive hill, where the ground plateau´s out enough to build a house and a dorm, along with a little stone sauna and some treehouses!
The view is spectacular, each morning as I woke up in our treehouse I´d open a bleary eye to look out of the window that covers the whole of one side of the building and look at Antigua far below and the tops of the 3 volcanoes that surround the town.
Every now and then it´s even better and you can see the smoke coming out of the top of "fuego" - one of the few active volcanoes in the region.
Life goes at a slow pace in Antigua and Earthlodge takes even that to new levels - except for the feckin healthy folk who insist on telling us about the hikes in the area, I mean, I get out of breath climbing the bit of the hill that goes from my treehouse to the main house (where the beer is) so why the hell would I want to trek up the side of what is practically a mountain just to come back down again? I get plenty of exercise going from the fridge to the hammock and back again thank you very much.
Ok so with the intentions of doing a 2 day trek to see Machu Picchu in a couple of months I can see some sense (through my cloud of refusal) of getting in shape some time soon. (is my current sort of roundish shape gonne be ok?)
I digress.......but apparently you can now get a lift all the way to Machi Picchu without doing any walking...hmmmm
Ok so yeah the Treehouse, the hammock, the cerveca ("Mosa" is a dark local beer that goes very well with pretty much anything, especially 2 more Mosa´s), the movie room with over 300 films. I´d been here for about 3 minutes and decided I wanted to stay forever.
Yo bebo I drink
Tu bebes You drink
Elle/el bebe She/ He drinks
Nosotros bebamos We drink
Elles/Elas beben They drink
Oh how happy we were conjugating verbs all day long with our spanish teacher. 4 Hours a day for 5 days we payed attention in class, we did homework and we studied hard. At the end of the week we could both hold a conversation in Spanish, we had memorised about 50 verbs and about 50 nouns. Fluent Spanish here we come...
Unfortunately the majority of people in Antigua speak English - and in the other couple of places we have been since. The knowledge has drained as if my head were a sieve. It´s going to take a bit more studying to get back on track. I can understand more of what is being said to me now though so thats a good thing.
Dinner at Earthlodge was quite cool too, all the guests sit around a big table "family style" (in my house that would mean on the sofa with a plate on my lap) to enjoy whatever was the dinner of the day, some damn fine cooks with some hearty servings, as you can imagine I was a happy camper (I was polite though and let some other guests have second helpings before I had my thirds!)
7 days later and we headed back to Antigua, time at EarthLodge had come to an end, other places to be and things to see.
Ok folks I´ll start with a little apology, suprisingly we have fallen behind in the blog, you know it´s a catch 22 situation, we have chosen to actually be out doing new things to write about rather than writing the things we have done! The date today is 6th July and we are in Nicaragua - Still safe and haven´t been robbed, hurt, hijacked or kidnapped- Good times.
However I am writing about Antigua, which was a month ago, it just means your gonna get the gist or what we did but maybe not the little details coz I can barely remeber what I had for breakfast let alone how I felt 4 weeks ago :-)
I had some cerial and a coffee.
Antigua´s quite a nice place although we were only here for a day to start with, we actually made it in time for the room we had booked at EarthLodge, part Hostel part Avacado farm up in the hills.
Wow.
We were anticipating quite a nice place because had been recommended by a friend (thanks Helen!) but it really is somethin else.
Picture if you will a really big hill, now think of it a bit bigger, well EarthLodge is three quaters of the way up a massive hill, where the ground plateau´s out enough to build a house and a dorm, along with a little stone sauna and some treehouses!
The view is spectacular, each morning as I woke up in our treehouse I´d open a bleary eye to look out of the window that covers the whole of one side of the building and look at Antigua far below and the tops of the 3 volcanoes that surround the town.
Every now and then it´s even better and you can see the smoke coming out of the top of "fuego" - one of the few active volcanoes in the region.
Life goes at a slow pace in Antigua and Earthlodge takes even that to new levels - except for the feckin healthy folk who insist on telling us about the hikes in the area, I mean, I get out of breath climbing the bit of the hill that goes from my treehouse to the main house (where the beer is) so why the hell would I want to trek up the side of what is practically a mountain just to come back down again? I get plenty of exercise going from the fridge to the hammock and back again thank you very much.
Ok so with the intentions of doing a 2 day trek to see Machu Picchu in a couple of months I can see some sense (through my cloud of refusal) of getting in shape some time soon. (is my current sort of roundish shape gonne be ok?)
I digress.......but apparently you can now get a lift all the way to Machi Picchu without doing any walking...hmmmm
Ok so yeah the Treehouse, the hammock, the cerveca ("Mosa" is a dark local beer that goes very well with pretty much anything, especially 2 more Mosa´s), the movie room with over 300 films. I´d been here for about 3 minutes and decided I wanted to stay forever.
Yo bebo I drink
Tu bebes You drink
Elle/el bebe She/ He drinks
Nosotros bebamos We drink
Elles/Elas beben They drink
Oh how happy we were conjugating verbs all day long with our spanish teacher. 4 Hours a day for 5 days we payed attention in class, we did homework and we studied hard. At the end of the week we could both hold a conversation in Spanish, we had memorised about 50 verbs and about 50 nouns. Fluent Spanish here we come...
Unfortunately the majority of people in Antigua speak English - and in the other couple of places we have been since. The knowledge has drained as if my head were a sieve. It´s going to take a bit more studying to get back on track. I can understand more of what is being said to me now though so thats a good thing.
Dinner at Earthlodge was quite cool too, all the guests sit around a big table "family style" (in my house that would mean on the sofa with a plate on my lap) to enjoy whatever was the dinner of the day, some damn fine cooks with some hearty servings, as you can imagine I was a happy camper (I was polite though and let some other guests have second helpings before I had my thirds!)
7 days later and we headed back to Antigua, time at EarthLodge had come to an end, other places to be and things to see.
2 comments:
Loving the updates your putting down groovers. Sounds like your havin a fantastic time. Just to let you know I really like the varied styles of your bloggin, keeps me well entertained when I should be workin... Peace
Hi di hi hi!! blog is cool. Yis really are "travelling". Hahah like knackers, HEE HEE. Anyway since u left civilisation, things haven't changed. SOOO boring here. I'm going to move to the Americas and become a porn star, I think. Have a great time, yis jammy gits. BYE BYE. (Don't forget my invite to the tent wedding!!)
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