Best Western Las Espuelas Liberia

... Liberia ben, maar had nooit verwcht hem zo snel op het marktplein te zien. <br>Wim stelde me voor aan zjn gastgezin. Die stelden onmiddeljk voor om bij hen te verblijven. Nog voordat ik iets kon zeggen hadden zijn hun bureau als gastenkamer ingericht. <br>In de namiddag eveneens Wim´s school bezocht. <br><br><br><br><br>

... it was okay. We were dropped off close to the city center and only had to walk about 10 minutes to the hostels we wanted to check out. We have a habit of picking a hostel, not liking it and moving after 2 days, so we wanted to avoid that this time and weighed our options. The place we decided on is called Casa Amarillo and it´s very comfortable. There are a handful of backpackers staying there and the room price includes a HUGE breakfast every morning! So here ...

... necessary to share with you a bit of what traveling via long distance bus in Central America is like...<br><br>We<br>boarded around 6 am Monday morning in Liberia, right in front of the<br>McDonald's, across from the Papa Johns and BK (for real!). It was a<br>nice bus, a luxury bus if you will, especially in comparison ...

... and Could&#8217;t understand why the line up wasn&#8217;t moving. Well it was because apparently if you are from Costa Rica you can walk to the front of the line. So something that should have taken us 30 minutes ended up taking 3 ½. hours  The best part of the boarder was there were no charges.<br><br>Basically Christina and I have decided that we are not fans of boarder crossings. The great thing is that it&#8217;s still worth it in the end.  

... every day and was semi-succesful, but just being out there was one of the best feelings in the world for me. Also, the food was cheap and pretty good. We especially enjoyed the "papusas". A local dish, well worth the 20 minute wait in the steamy hot floor-less restaurant with random pollos and perros running around. So, our El Salvador vaca came to an end and we headed back to Antigua on Wednesday afternoon so we could catch our flight ...

... myself, walking through Liberia streets and not even looking TOO european! We get almost everybody`s attention and its even worse, if we walk alone in the streets, trying to ignore all the `Hey sexy sexy baby` or `Beautiful, beautiful, Ohlala`, that Tico Machos cant keep for themselves.<br>So far so good, still trying to take it with a smile and thinking, that its just a normal part of their culture and we should not judge them to harsh. But saturday night reached ...

... It is a surfers paradise, as are most places along the Pacific and has, again, the most beautiful sunsets. We stayed longer than expected in just one spot due to very lovely people we met and also due to various stomach bugs that hit us one by one. El Salvador has still a way to go in terms of higiene, we the foreigners, went down like flies.... parasites ...

... just take us back to our hotel without charge. He wanted to charge us the original fare because it was going to be all the way across town again - Rikki was about to implode and refused to give the man anymore of our business, so we jumped out of the cab in the middle of nowhere and started to walk up the street to a bus stop. Luckily a bus came that said Metro Centro, so we hopped on. We rode that bus all the way ...

After the initial culture shock we had upon arriving in San Salvador´s Cedeinfa (Center for Community work with children and families), we had time to settle in to our new home for the next few days. We are staying in the staff house of Cedeinfa, in the roughest part of San Salvador. There is a lot of gang activity and violence. Even the tiniest of houses are covered in barbed wire and have tall gates out on the street side. In the house we have 6 Germans, 1 American ...

... the music, and perving at all the attractive women on show. However, one of these women caught my eye for a couple of seconds and, making a mental reference to "Don´t Be a Loser: How to Make Beautiful Women Think You´re Really Cool and Hot", I looked away for a couple of seconds before catching her eye again and smiling. To my delight, and indeed surprise, she smiled back and beckoned me over towards her. Remembering Chapter 13 - "How to Play Hard to Get" - I shook my head and ...