Arriving in Antigua, Guatemala I was so happy to discover that I didn’t have to look far to find foodie workshops. I started my gastronomy exploration with Taste Antigua’s Street Food Tour and then signed up for two cooking workshops – one with El Frijol Feliz (The Happy Bean) and the other through La Tortilla…
Anyone who has spent any time at all travelling in Latin America knows that the water out of the tap is usually not drinkable (Santiago in Chile is the only place I’ve trusted it). It is one of the key problems throughout Central and South America and it is the reason I bought my Travel Tap microfilter…
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I joined Antigua’s Gym for my first week in Guatemala hanging out in Antigua. Well, it turns out that I ended up spending 3 weeks in Antigua and I was at the gym most days. Did a lot of 12 Minute Athlete workouts and started to get in…
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…