After an early wakeup call, thanks to the racket created by the vet volunteers, I spent the better part of the morning doing laundry. Since they had inhaled most of the continental breakfast before I got up. I set out on a quest for a real breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast.
Sunday afternoon I found myself nursing a queasy stomach after risking a breakfast at Kathy’s Waffle House.
Mostly frequented by ex-pats, this place serves up piping hot mugs of coffee geared more to the USA than the local market- i.e. it has very little taste. Half an hour after breakfast, I remembered why I only ate here once on my last trip!!
A trip to the market got me a $10 replacement for the backpack that was stolen; and lunch, once I could face it, was leftover salad and a half a panini (so I guess that would be a pani!!) from last nights takeout.
Once I started feeling better I spent the afternoon walking through the downtown core catching some of the Kodak Moments that had previously eluded me.
Supper tonight was a spectacular buffet at Jimmy Three Fingers. Fried turkey, barbecued ribs, Jambalaya, cooked veggies, various salads, black-eyed peas and more- total price $15 including tax tip and drinks. BEST jambalaya I have ever eaten-PERIOD!
I have a feeling that a few of the restaurants in town are trying to identify Jed Leonard so that the can put out a contract on me! Some of my Tripadvisor ratings have been a little less than kind.
With a little over 36 hours in the relative civilization of Granada I am getting a little nervous of the redness surrounding one of the more significant “road rash” gouges on my knee. I am thinking that a week of Keflex 500mg might be in order, especially considering the environment that I am about to enter.
Monday came and went with little to show for the effort except some shots of the sunset from the tower at La Merced church.
Just for the heck of it I decided to sample dinner at El Zaguan, supposedly the best place for steak in town. The steak was average, the service sucked and the prices were too high considering the pathetic accompaniments that arrived with it- ½ cup of rice, small salad and two slices of fried potato and a lukewarm piece of fried banada -my rating should , hopefully knock them down a notch or two on tripadvisor.com
Tuesday ,with time to kill till check in I have a decent free wireless signal at the airport and can continue blogging till it gets closer to flight time.
The flight itself is all of 45 minutes, getting to San Carlos at 2:15pm
With no hotel booked so far for tonight, I will scope out a few once I land. The decision will be based on having or not having hot water and having bugs small enough that they wont move my things while I am sleeping!
The process of getting my luggage checked was expedited on account of my walking pole and my limp. I think the entire process including security took less than 5 minutes. Initially ahead of me and then bumped to the back of the line were two women with Canadian passports ( but speaking Spanish) who were trying to board the plane with tickets for yesterdays flight!! They must have straightened things out since they did make it through security 15 minutes after me.
The plane parked outside is a twin engine 12-seater turboprop. It does have numbers on the side so I guess it is registered somewhere. La Costeña is Nicaragua’s one and only domestic carrier and has a couple of dozen flights a day to various points in the country. None of the trips take more than an hour- a treat when one considers the ass pounding alternative of 8 hours on a chicken bus or a 14 hour pukefest on the ferry. For $72 I am definitely not complaining. You’d pay that for lunch, a magazine and a days parking at Toronto airport.
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