Hotel Torremolinos Ahuachapan

... shop - a more limited selection is sold in the street from carts - best sorbets I've ever had!<br><br>Up at 6.30 to get some coffee in and get to terminal for 8am bus. Good job I'm British &amp; left way early as nobody knew where the terminal was.<br><br>It's pretty low season so I was the only person at the Volcanos Parque Nacional for the 11am trip to the summit of either Santa Ana o Izalco. Former well vegetated most of the way though ...

... were going and had been. They all think we are father and son!!<br>The border crossing at San Cristobel was tough going with photo copies galore, then photocopies of igned photocopies and so on. This was one time the $5 for the fixer was worth it, even so it was 2.5 hours.<br>El Salvador, another poor central American country, and noticibly so.<br>A little more organised agriculture here but ...

... nieuw hostel (3 maanden open) genaamd Casa Mazeta waar we een private room beschikbaar hadden.<br>De eerste witte was gelijk afgegeven om te wassen, het centrum in op verkenning, een heerlijke liquade met aardbijen gedronken met zoete cake, zometeen lekker douchen, en daarna lekker ergens eten!<br><br>De rest volgt later!<br>Ik zag op internet dat het bij jullie ook lekker weer is vandaag!<br><br>Genietze!!!<br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br ...

... along the same lines, but in Spanish, so I didn't realize that until we were talking about it on the way home. I had picked up a flag left over from the recent elections that was thrown into the bushes, still on the bamboo pole it had been set in the ground with. Trouble was, and I have been in the country long enough to realize it, it was for the losing party, which was backed by the 'bourgeoisie'. I was trying to find a clipper or pliers so I could take ...

... was to much trouble to hassle us for the fair, so he just ignored us. Next. We arrive in the real Ahuachapan and look for the places to stay as recommended in our tusty guide. Hotel San Jose was exactly as described, "clean, but cheerless". The town was intersting as well and we got lots of stares since apparently we were the only tourists in town. Everyones stares turned to big smiles after we said "hola" or "buenas". One night there was enough since it was ...

I didn't do much work today, but the masons managed to finish the 10th row of block. It really is starting to look like a building now. We started with the usual huge breakfast, ran some errands, then went to the worksite. This morning was slow because the 7th course of block is special. The center is hollow and a piece of rebar connects each end of the walls. The hollow part is then filled with concrete ...

Woke up really early this morning listening to an electronic siren going "whoop, whoop, whoop!" It did it several times. Then I lay here listening to the roosters crowing, the dogs barking, and the birds chirping. A lot more sounds than I hear in the morning at home. The only thing I ever hear in the mornings at home is the garbage ...

I have a little extra time tonight so I thought I'd tell you about the other two clinics that the Evangelical Methodist Church of El Salvador has and show you some recent pictures of the one in Ahuachapan. Ahuachapan's clinic is the first that the church opened. The Methodist Clinic in Ahuachapan started in July, 2005 with a doctor and a helper. The clinic was opened by the Salvadoran Methodist Church because many people in the ...

I think today's blog will be with few words but lots of photos. We started with a big breakfast and then went to the worksite. The first thing we did was realize that the foundation was about 20" too narrow. The head mason, Pastor Angel, had misread the plans. We had to take out the rebar cage, dig the foundation wider, and put the rebar back in. It took most of the morning to do that. There were about 10 of us ...