Tuesday 27 September 2011

Nicaragua: Leon

A very early start this morning ... 5.45 a.m. ... with a stop in a typical rural finca/farm restaurant after we left the city ... with onions on a tortilla with a creamy cheese sauce ... a common breakfast for many people in Nicaragua.

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We drove to the city of Leon, the second largest city in this country with the large and beautiful cathedral in the centre which was constructed in 1749.

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Our distribution was in a combined orphanage and school. There are forty children living full time in the orphanage, and many many more attending the school itself — from little ones to high school students ... ready to go onwards.

When we arrived some of the children were at a chapel service. We heard them singing several songs in tunes that we know ... including a bit, I think, of Leonard Cohen's Alleluia.
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After more than four hundred children received bedkits, we headed for lunch in the mid afternoon after a short drive to the Pacific Ocean to a very pleasant seaside restaurant where the waves crashed into the sands immediately beside the dining tables. One rogue wave, in fact, washed right up around the diners' feet but the food was still very good.

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So many children with new bedkits ... and we had a good day too ... with a final stop to look inside the big cathedral.

All the photos are in the
Nicaragua 2011 Photo Album

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Bev White
for Team Nicaragua 2011


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