Boozing and beaches 🏖🍻🙃

10/6/23

Today, we were a touch hungover and crawled out of bed in the last ten minutes of free breakfast along with the rest of the hostel!! After pancakes and a strong coffee, we headed to the bus stop to catch bus #1 of two. We stopped in Rivas bus station, just long enough to grab lunch, which we scoffed, checking every thirty seconds that our bus was not leaving without us! All in all, a relaxing lunch! We got on bus #2 to San Juan del Sur and surfed for much of the way, having surrendered our chance of seats in favour of lunch!

When we arrived in San Juan, we walked to our hostel and chilled out. We headed to the beach for sunset via some bikini shops, and then went to a poké bowl place for dinner. Afterwards, we sacked off beer pong and instead watched Attenborough on Netflix. Another day gone!

11/6/23

SUNDAY FUNDAY ROUND TWO!

And today was the day I was getting the tee!

We had an oaty breakfast before getting ready, getting our tickets (and tees) and heading out to a bougie cafe for lunch. It was hippies galore in there! Food was slow but good and we took our time before heading back to the party. We got one free drink and then headed into the pool and met Jess, my pal from the.Space hostel the week before. The three of us escaped to the supermarket with AC for some tinnies for a bit before heading to the second place, beach front. I absolutely love the fact that you can chill in the supermarket with snacks and tinnies – what a world! We left the second place pre sunset and headed up into the hills to watch the sunset. It was glorious! The tunes and dance continued, the chat diminished. Jess cut her foot, and so a local guy ushered the three of us to the front of the queue for the bus back to town! Oops! We made it back to town and got food and sat beach front for a bit before braving Arribas Bar. We sat out the front chatting before heading back in for a wee dance. By 23.30, we were done and headed homewards bound.

12/6/23

Today, we chilled by the pool and had breakfast before heading to Playa Hermosa on Jess’ recommendation. We had to get a taxi there, but it was well worth it! It was a huge beach, which was more or less empty, and which had not been overly developed yet! We chilled, drank juice, read our books, jumped in the waves, and walked to the far end of the beach chatting. It was a glorious day. After watching sunset, we got a lift with the same taxi as before back to town where we met up with Jess for pizza. It was hot work sitting near the pizza oven, but we moved after a bit, and the pizza was delicious! One of my favourite things about this trip has been getting my home friends and travel buds to become pals – it’s the best, shoutout to Aisling, Greta, Laura, Holly, Luna, Georgia and Jess!! 💛 After dinner, we said our goodbyes to Jess, and Georgia and I strolled home.