Morning bath, Nica-style
Taking plantains – a Nicaraguan staple – to market
A coal seller by the roadside
Mule-drawn carriages, called ‘diligencias’, carry people and food around Granada
Sewing homie
An apple seller kicking back in the afternoon heat
Lunchtime; probably beans and rice
Iguana meat for sale, Leon market
Siesta
Midday ferry to Ometepe, an island formed by two volcanoes rising from Lake Nicaragua
Don’t run for the hills, Ometepe
Nicaraguan cops, doing what they do best
Rocking the fake Ray Bans
The customary twilight footpath catch-up, Granada
Gretel Hunnerup is convinced that in a past life she was a carrier pigeon, such is her love of taking fanciful flights and posting little stories about her discoveries to her independent online pigeon hole: www.thecarrierpigeonpost.com.
The Australian sticky beak now writes about the little-known delights that make London hum…stuff that wouldn’t make the papers, like quirky establishments, not-for-tourists pursuits, and ordinary folks doing surprising things.
A trained journalist with six years travel and lifestyle writing for print and web, Gretel has taken a new post heading up internal communications for STA Travel’s Northern Europe and Africa Division, geared for maximum on-the-road reportage. Oh and she’s a sucker for documentaries, dress-up parties and dolmades.
