We have found an Attack Dog !!!!
So, we are on the Island of Ometepe !! and we want to share
with you this wonderful place that we are staying in. Yeah, I found it on Airbnb !
and it's called the Eco Cabin on the Lake, we've arrived here and it's
actually called El Samarítimo which is - The Samaritan and it's absolutely
idyllic. It really is, we're right next to Lake Nicaragua which you can see all in
the distance behind us, and we're staying in a tree house, you can see it over
there and we'll go and show you around the treehouse, but it's an absolutely
fascinating place.
So, this is the wonderful area under our tree house
where we just been relaxing, and Marianne's found a puppy they have so
much nature here, there's a house puppy how cute is that? Now if you found an
Airbnb property that even provides a puppy
it's a pretty good thing and this one, it is super cute, although he does nibble
you sometimes when you're sat at the table don't you? and this area here,
we've been having breakfast the room comes with breakfast and
they've done wonderful breakfast for us and dinner, and it's just a really great
place. There is electric's here so we've been sitting here catching up on some of our
videos, there's no Wi-Fi but the guys have been like super super nice and lent
us their phones so we can like check emails and things and we do have a SIM
card in our iPad, which I have managed to upload a video today, it took about 12 hours,
but it's up there! and this treehouse .... What a thing,
views over the lake, there's beautiful birds, we've even seen horses,
a few horses come down to the lake and drink and cool off behind us, but it's just
absolutely fabulous. Marianne's had a couple of dozes in the hammocks
which are provided here as well
So this is our bedroom and the mattress is super comfy and it's really really
nice, there's a fan to help keep you cool in the evenings although with the
windows open by the lake there's always a nice cool breeze and there's even
electric sockets so that you can charge up your phone and things, and a hatch
that you can close when you go out, just to keep your stuff secure and it was
funny actually last night, umm, you could feel it's very windy you could
actually feel the room slightly rocking, umm, which worked me up in the night thinking
What!! But it's just so authentic and lovely, and the noise of the waves from
the lake, yes the lake has waves it's that big that it does actually have
waves, an absolutely fascinating place. So, you've probably heard it before but
coconuts in the wind are dangerous and there's a number of
coconut trees on the island and indeed around where we're staying and it's
really windy so when you're walking around, always just be aware don't walk
directly under a coconut tree because if one of those falls on your head, you'll
know about it!! One of the things we really love is actually immersing
ourselves in local life and it's so different from life back home and the
showers and loo here are just absolutely brilliant so let me share this with you
so we've been watching with interest Theo and Bee from the Indie Projects
creating and improving their land that they bought in Portugal
and they've made a composting toilet but we to here, have our very own composting
toilet which you can see behind me. No smells, works really really well
another thing that they say, is that the water on Ometepe, you hear mixed
reviews some say you can drink it some say you can't. It's all provided through
wells and I think some places maybe have better wells and others
we've actually got a SteriPEN that we sterilize all of the water that we're
drinking just in case, because the last thing you want to do when you're
travelling is get a dodgy belly and so far so good
the SteriPEN seems to be working really really good and it saves buying bottled
plastic water we don't like to use plastic as far as possible, sometimes you
can't avoid it but yeah, a really great place and there's just furniture
everywhere made out of wood all in different creative styles from benches
to the table under our Hut it's just a really cool place !!
So, we're sat enjoying the evening under our tree house and it's just amazing how
many huge, I mean huge toads there are, they're everywhere, I went to the toilet
and there was one in the toilet there was just one under my chair !! like so many toads !!
Marianne did a massive scream !! Which in turn made me scream !! because I didn't
scream !! she made me scream!!