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The hard truth about going back ‘home’ after 10 month in Central America
After a 16 hours flight, everybody is relieved to finally touch ground. Can there be any better option than buying a refreshing drink after the landing? I opted for my favourite drink: a Coke. Maybe not the best idea. I have never tasted something more horrible in my whole life. It is not that I
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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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Rice, Rice Baby
There are a lot of things one can do with rice. One can write a name on it, use it as a filling for cushions, throw it on a wedding or dry things with it, as rice absorbs humidity. But, one can also just eat the rice… For over half of the world’s population, rice
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Where am I?
„Yes, but to get into Costa Rica you need a return ticket! You can buy it outside at one of the travel agencies.“ Well, didn’t all the guidebooks, blogs and every person I asked say, that the officers never ask for a return ticket when crossing border by foot? Does not seem that true. Or
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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“,
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Pupusas, Police and Painted Walls
Traveling in El Salvador feels a bit like being in a club when the party is almost over. Everybody tries to hit on you. The guys just want to hook up with a girl before the night ends. The problem is, that in El Salvador it goes like that the whole day. They just do
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!