An Australian Dream
For everyone in Australia who loves to use limes in their cooking and their drinks… How about 12 juicy (yes they really are) limes for 50 cents?

For everyone in Australia who loves to use limes in their cooking and their drinks… How about 12 juicy (yes they really are) limes for 50 cents?

Well, the big day finally arrived! After far too many farewells, I’m now on my 12 month journey which currently looks like this: February – March 2016: perfecting my spanish at La Mariposa Escuela de Español in La Concha in Nicaragua. April – June 2016: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala July 2016: Cuba August – November 2016…
What do you do on a Friday night in a small town in rural Nicaragua? Go to the Nicaragua international Jazz Festival of course! Touring Managua, Leon, and the tiny San Marcos and featuring groups from Nicaragua, Italy, Spain, USA and Germany, it was a surreal experience to be sitting in a little park…
Arrived in Cuba and decided to get out of my confort zone by asking some other passengers whether they wanted to share a taxi into Havana (it’s US$25). I struck lucky on the second try and the added bonus was that the taxi we got was one of the old 1950s ones (those ones are…
I love cooking and I love eating. For this reason, I’m a keen fan of cooking schools/classes and have done quite a few over the past couple of years. Add in that I particularly like to try dishes that are typical to the region I am travelling through and it was a no-brainer to sign…
The Finca Esperanza Verde is actually a working organic coffee farm and this time around I arrived right at the end of the flowering season. Each of those little green nodules that are left once the flower has finished will turn into a coffee bean. The last time I was here, I did the coffee processing…
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…