Epic Journey alert--if you want to go from Granada in Nicaragua aaaaalllll the way down to Panama City by road as quickly as possible, it will take about 8 hours to get to San Jose in Costa Rica, you'll need to stay there about 2 hours then a mental 16 hour long haul, stopping almost solely at the Costa Rica/Panama border (where you'll be for 6 or 7 hours anyway). Leaving Granada we were taking the normal bus down to San Jose; it was fine, lo...

Upwards and onwards! So, we arrived into Leon and shared a cab in with Finn who was staying at one hostel, dropping her off before we went to ours. We'd reserved 3 nights at a place called Sonati which seemed lovely until we arrived. Our dorm only had two other people in it but was so hot and stuffy. The bathroom and shower weren't too clean and even the common area didn't seem too grand. But we figured to give it one night anyway and see how thin...