In Nicaragua one needs to worry a lot less about everything. Or is it just that one starts to care less over here? Sometimes opening Facebook and you see all these discussions going on: organic food is the only thing you should eat, become a vegan or at least a vegetarian, do not eat meat,
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San Juan del Sur – eine Stadt mit drei Gesichtern
Es ist 5:30 Uhr in San Juan del Sur. Die einen stehen gerade auf, die anderen suchen noch nach ihren Betten. Trotz all des Tourismustrubels ist San Juan ein einfaches Fischerdorf. Früh am Morgen schlängeln sich die Fischer vorbei an den noch angeheiterten Partygästen von letzter Nacht. Toto und seine Crew können davon nur träumen,
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Living the local life part I
Often you hear, that once you have been to a poorer country, you realise how well-off we are in the first world countries. But if you really immerse yourself into the other culture, the only thing you realise is how much useless things we need in our first world countries in order to survive the
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The weekend trip
To tie up to my last article: I guess you are not on vacation anymore but are living in one place, when you pack a small bag and leave for a short trip. So, last weekend I packed my bags and left for a short trip to San José in Costa Rica. Why did I
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About being a local tourist
At some time you reach the point, when you do not know anymore if you are still travelling or if you are at home. suddenly you find yourself at a friend’s house helping to cook dinner for everybody who drops by. Street vendors and some restaurants start to give you the same discounts as they
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Nicaraguan Christmas and other stories
Traveling by bus in Nicaragua is just crazy. Not because the bus is uncomfortable or something, no. It is because I always have to pay for two. In the beginning I thought that I have to pay for my luggage. However, later I realized that I have to pay for my schizophrenic me, as they
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An essay about different types of hostels
I realised that there is one thing about El Salvador, that you almost do not find anywhere else. And that are the very good hostels. When I start thinking about it, El Salvador had by far the best hostels here in Central America. Not because they were very clean, new or fancy, no, because they
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Where is the garbage?
Sometimes it is not that easy to cross a border as it seems. When leaving El Salvador I had to queue up for about 30 minutes. There were a hell lot of people and cars at the border, wanting to leave El Salvador. I am writing „to leave El Salvador“ and not „to enter Honduras“,
Ich schreibe und ich reise. Mal bin ich ganz weit weg, mal erkunde ich meine Stadt oder nur meinen Block, manchmal reise ich durch mein Zimmer. Dazu gibt es meistens Zeichnungen aus meinem Sketchbook. Auch mal Fotos. Und vielleicht bringe ich von der ein oder anderen Reise auch ein leckeres Rezept mit. Hier findest du all meine Erinnerungen. Schön, dass du vorbei schaust!