It is over a week since we came back from Nicaragua. Getting re-accustomed to Europe always takes a moment – the clock has to readjust itself, and we have to get used again to the winter chill and the rural quiet in our little corner of France. It is now […]

Alicia Huete is just an amazing woman. Known as Mamalicha she has helped thousands of women understand their pregnancy and to have a natural childbirth, she has trained hundreds of women to be midwives, she carried out over a thousand Pap smears in the last year alone. She is well […]

Yesterday we set off early for los Quinchos, expecting to stay the night and come back today. In the event we managed to make our visit into a round trip, mostly because many of the people we had hoped to see weren’t there, but we did have a lovely time […]

squawky horns, vulcanizacion stalls, itinerant everything sellers weaving the traffic… Hot. Rocking chairs, and rice and beans for breakfast. We are back in Nicaragua.

Only two months till January, and Kate and Chris and I will be away to Nica again, to catch up with Los Quinchos, with Maria at El Barrilete, Gustavo from Nicaplast, Mamalicha and the Muralistas in Estelí. A very big thank you to all of you who are helping these people. […]