Another of my obsessions when travelling is to tuck into any cheese platters I manage to come across. While this would cause massive issues to my health and waistline in some countries (Australia, France, etc), in Latin America cheese platters are actually reasonably rare. I’ve managed to find 3 so far in 5 months – the latest…
You don’t have to know me for too long before you come to realise how much I love icecream! I admit it – I’m an addict. So how does the icecream here in Central America stack up? Icecream in Nicaragua In Nicaragua, there are essentially two key ice-creameries. Eskimo – which are absolutely…
The Street Food Tour was the first of 4 foodie activities I had planned for my stay in Antigua. So to counter all this (and the fact that I ate waaaaaaay too many pupusas in El Salvador) I decided I had to get back into working out in earnest. Also helps that I’ve finally…
Antigua street food tour, exploring traditional Guatemalan dishes, hidden eateries, local food culture, pacing, costs, and how flavours reflect history and everyday life.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from El Salvador. It has a reputation as a dangerous country, everyone tries to dissuade you when you say you plan to go, and most other travellers I’d met had spent a maximum of 2-3 days there, passing through on their way from Guatemala to Nicaragua. Having now spent…
After stuffing my face at the Juayúa food festival and trying to mitigate the damage a little by hiking the Siete Cascadas, I said goodbye to Susan and headed to San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, for a few days. I usually try to avoid capital cities like the plague, but I wanted to send…
My trip through El Salvador was timed to ensure that I would be in Juayúa (one of the towns along the Ruta de Flores) on the weekend so I could explore the Food Festival that they hold there every week. The other key attraction of Juayúa is a 5 hour hike called the “Siete Cascadas” or…
In much of Latin America, the water out of the tap is not drinkable. In fact, the latest edition of Revue (Guatemala’s English-language magazine), features a story on a company that is trying to assist poorer families to have access to clean drinking water and to reduce the number of people who end up in hospital with parasites….
Juayúa, one of the key towns along the Ruta de Flores, is famous for its weekend food festival that is held in and round the central park. For this reason, a whole bunch of us from the Casa Verde ended up descending on the town in order to eat our way through the culinary…
To be honest, apart from visiting the Cerro Verde National Park to climb Volcán Santa Ana or Volcán Izalco, or using it as a base to explore some of the Mayan ruins or the Ruta de Flores, there isn’t much to do or see in Santa Ana itself. So mostly hung out enjoying the Casa Verde and…