El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America, how small? It has almost the same size as the state of Massachusetts. I could go on and start talking about the statistics, why there was a civil war, and why today the official currency is the American dollar, but I’ll save from those details, instead I’ll tell a bit about my trip to this tiny country back in December 2006. Started to write about El Salvador last January, then a computer crash erased everything I had written, and here I’m a couple of months later trying to give you some words about this little place one day I called home. If you want to go to a place where you want to have a rough adventure, where you want to climb a volcano - 25 of them - or swim in one of the few lakes, or walk around beaches which I consider to be the most beautiful in the region (don’t all countries claim the same thing?), then El Salvador is the place to go. Said that, don’t expect to find tourist information booths everywhere you g...
and below you will find pictures from the second part of my trip to Northern Europe. The Baltic was fantastic, and after moving around for a while I was ready to spend 10 days in this city, and with a small detour to Potsdam (considered by some as being part of Berlin) and Dresden. If you want to see what happened when East and West Germany got reunified, then Berlin should be part of your itinerary. I'm guessing the older generation still thinks of Germany as the East and West, because you still can hear people talking about "how East Germans do things" or "how West Germany had to ...", but with the new generation slowly those divisions are disappearing. If the East used to be gray and depressing - as I was told - then today East Berlin is colourful and vibrant. I must admit it is interesting, coming from Canada, to see everyone carrying and drinking their beers in the metro, streets and anywhere they feel like it. Berlin does have a type of bohemian feel...
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