This week’s events: Sept 21 – 28

Mon Sept 21

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Margarita Mondays @ Pelican Eyes 6-9pm

Movie Night or Monday Night Football @ Bambu Beach 8pm

Games Night @ The Pier

Tues Sept 22

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 7:30am and 5pm

Wed Sept 23

Yoga @ Camino del Sol 8:15am

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Beach Bonfire and Acoustic jam @ The Pier 7pm

Happy Hour @ Pelican Eyes 4-8pm

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Ladies Night @ Henry’s Iguana Bar 5-8pm

Thurs Sept 24

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 7:30am & 5pm

Open Mic Night @ Coquitos

Auther Guineess Day – Party at the Irish House Bar

Fri Sept 25

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre  5pm

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Happy Hour @ Pelican Eyes 4-8pm

Sat Sept 26

Farmer’s Market @ the Sports Park  9am-2pm

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 10am

Karaoke @ Aqua Azul Bar Restaurant.

Live Concert with William Calderon @ El Timon Restaurant.

Sun Sept 27

Triathlon competition planned

Yoga @ Camino del Sol 5pm

Happy Hour @ Bambu Beach 4-6pm

Mon Sept 21

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Margarita Mondays @ Pelican Eyes 6-9pm

Movie Night or Monday Night Football @ Bambu Beach 8pm

Games Night @ The Pier

Watch for news of the Ping Pong Party coming up at Mango Rosa Resort this Tuesday, Sept 29!

If you have an event you would like listed here, please email Sandy Iverson directly at sandyiverson@mac.com

Charity Poker This Sunday

Bambu Beach hosts it’s 9th evening of poker in it’s “Casino Royale Charity Poker Series”.  This tournament will be the last evening in the series, before they take a break for the October vacation.  The fun gets started this Sunday, Sept 20 at 7pm.

San Juan’s Got Talent 2

San Juan’s got Talent 2,/San Juan Tiene Talento 2
Do you got what it takes/ Tiene que necesitar para ganar

This Saturday, August 29, Bar Coquito will host the second (in what we can only hope will be a regular event) talent show and competition:  San Juan’s Got Talent – 2!  The fun gets started at 6:30pm and admission is free.  There will be prizes and lots of fun for the whole family.  Don’t miss this great event.

The World Stopped Watching

Final Documentary Film Night at Buena Vida Fitness Centre

Tomorrow, Tuesday August 4 Buena Vida offers the final installment in it’s documentray film series on Nicaragua

“The World Stopped Watching” is the followup film to “The World is Watching”. Fifteen years later, the filmmakers return to Nicaragua with some of the journalists from the first film to discover what became of the first revolution to be conducted in the glare of the world media and the people of it’s country. They question the role and responsibility of journalists and their employers who first put Nicaraguans under the microscope, and then rushed off to the next hot spot.

Admission is Free.

This Week’s Events: July 27 – Aug 3

Mon July 27

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Margarita Mondays @ Pelican Eyes 6-9pm

Movie Night @ Bambu Beach 8pm

Movie Night @ Smokey’s Bar

Games Night @ The Pier

Tues July 28

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 7:30 and 10am

Ladies Night Billiards @ Smokeys Bar

Documentary Film Night @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 7:30pm

Wed July 29

Yoga @ Camino del Sol 8:15am

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Beach Bonfire and Acoustic jam @ The Pier 7pm

Happy Hour @ Pelican Eyes 4-8pm

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Ladies Night @ Henry’s Iguana Bar 5-8pm

Thurs July 30

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 7:30am & 10am

Culture Night @ Restaurante El Timon. 7:30pm. Nicaraguan dance, music and food. Beer & Rum drinks for $1.00

Open Mic Night @ Coquitos

Fri July 31

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre  5pm

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Happy Hour @ Pelican Eyes 4-8pm

Happier Hour @ Smokey’s Bar 8-10pm

Sat Aug 1

Farmer’s Market @ the Sports Park  9am-2pm

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 10am

Karaoke @ Bar Restaurant Lago Azul 8pm

Sun Aug 2

Yoga @ Camino del Sol 5pm

Happy Hour @ Bambu Beach 4-6pm

Mon Aug 3

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Margarita Mondays @ Pelican Eyes 6-9pm

Movie Night @ Bambu Beach 8pm

If you have an event you would like listed here, please email Sandy Iverson directly at sandyiverson@mac.com

Movie Tonight – July 23

Bambu Beach Bar is showing Terminator 4 tonight @ 8pm… big screen on the beach. Free admission.

Documentary Film Nights

Buena Vida Fitness Centre is screening 3 documentary films filmed here in Nicaragua.  On Tuesday July 21, 7:30pm they will screen “With our own Two Hands” (English only) and “The World is Watching” (English with Spanish Subtitles).  “With our own two hands” is a film that follows a group of sixteen Canadian farmers who, in January, 1985, journeyed to Rivas, Nicaragua, to help fellow farmers rebuild equipment and farms that had been ravaged by civil war. “The world is watching”  focuses on several journalists working in Nicaragua during the negotiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987. It examines how the news business works, revealing the inevitable distortions that become part of the process. This film was a winner of many international awards.

On Tuesday July 28 at 7:30 pm they will show “The World Stopped Watching“(English with Spanish Subtitles).  Fifteen years after “The World Is Watching”  the filmmakers return to Nicaragua with some of the journalists from the first film to discover what became of the first revolution to be conducted in the glare of the world media and the people of it’s country. They question the role and responsibility of journalists and their employers who first put Nicaraguans under the microscope, and then rushed off to the next hot spot.

All three films are by internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker: Peter Raymont.  Admission is Free.

This Week’s Events – May 25-June 1

Mon May 25

Yoga @ Camino del Sol 8:15am

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Margarita Mondays @ Pelican Eyes 6-9pm

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Movie Night @ Bambu Beach 8pm

Tues May 26

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 7:30 and 10am

Salsa night @ Coquitos with demonstrations and lessons from “Asi es Mi Terra”, a local folkloric dance troupe

Wed May 27

Yoga @ Camino del Sol 8:15am

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Beach Bonfire and Acoustic jam @ The Pier 7pm

Happy Hour @ Pelican Eyes 4-8pm

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Wild Ladies Wed @ Bambu Beach 8pm

Ladies Night @ Henry’s Iguana Bar 5-8pm

Thurs May 28

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 7:30am

Cooking with Anna – Monthly Cooking Class – see http://www.cookingwithanna.com/ for details.

“Terrazo de Palermo” hosts Sunset Hour 5-8pm 2 for 1 drink specials. Palermo Hotel (just outside of town on the road to Rivas.)

Culture Night @ Restaurante El Timon. 7:30pm. Nicaraguan dance, music and food. Beer & Rum drinks for $1.00

Open Mic Night @ Coquitos

International volleyball game at the Sports Park (probably around 7 in the evening)

Fri May 29

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 10am & 5pm

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Happy Hour @ Pelican Eyes 4-8pm

Sat May 30

Farmer’s Market @ the Sports Park 9am-noon

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 10am

Karaoke @ Bar Restaurant Lago Azul 8pm

Live Music @ Coquitos 8 or 9pm

Mother’s Day Special Party @ Bambu Beach

Sun May 31

Happy Hour @ Bambu Beach 4-6pm

Mon June 1

Water Aerobics @ Pelican Eyes Family Pool 10am

Yoga @ Buena Vida Fitness Centre 5pm

Margarita Mondays @ Pelican Eyes 6-9pm

Movie Night @ Bambu Beach 8pm

If you have an event you would like listed here, please email Sandy Iverson directly at sandyiverson@mac.com

Events I’ve missed

My apologies to all for missing 3 of the most ‘happening’ events last week. Sometimes you just don’t hear about things until the day (or hour) before they happened.

Friday night, Big Wave Dave hosted his “pre-Semana Santa, pack-your-bags, head-for-the-hills, and GET THE HELL OUT OF DODGE PARTY”. The popular Managua based band, The Pretenders, entertained with a tribute to CCR.

Saturday night all the local surf fans turned out at Tsunami’s Bar to watch the launch of a new film featuring many local surfers catching some of the best local waves.

And Sunday, Mango Rosa, hosted their Summer Pool Party and reprised said surf film.

There is always something happening in San Juan del Sur and keeping one’s ear to the ground for the latest is half the fun and half the challenge.

Tourism Investment

According to centralamericalink.com, local and international investors are set to invest $33.3 million in tourism in this lovely country. Two of the developments sited in the story (originally published in Efe) are located in the San Juan region.

Pacific Turtle Resort and Spa has recently broken ground in the south east corner of town and is expected to have over ninety villas and condos; two infinity pools, bars, restaurants, as well as a spa and fitness centre.

Aqua Resort and Spa (near Tola) is another project expected to benefit from this investment influx.

Apparently, there is still a reasonable amount of confidence in investment in this region given that both of these resorts are extremely high end projects.