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Bula Nacula!

Bula Nacula!

  After three nights we boarded the ferry again, to head north to the island Nacula. The Goodbye at Wayalailai was like the Welcome, music and singing, while the motorboat brought us back to the ferry. We had booked the next three nights in a similar resort, the northernmost one in the Yasawa island group, another two and a half hours ferry ride. You could say, it was the same but sonewhat different. Three meals a day (though breakfast was…

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How to break into a car using a kitchen knife and a coat hanger

How to break into a car using a kitchen knife and a coat hanger

  Well, getting a taxi the morning after Mardi Gras Day is kind of difficult. We knew that. But we had no choice, since our Greyhound to Austin left at quarter past six on Wednesday morning, plus we had to be there an hour early to pick up the tickets we had bought online. So expecting that we had to wait for a long time or maybe even walk the three and something miles to the Bus station, we got up half past…

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Dominican Republic: A resumé in facts, figures, pictures – and Music

Dominican Republic: A resumé in facts, figures, pictures – and Music

  We spent almost four weeks traveling the Dominican Republic. When we first arrived we had just a vague idea what this country could be like – mostly we associated big resorts, beaches and palm trees with it. Our first destination, the Bavaro/Punta Cana region pretty much confirmed these associations. As Maria, our first host in Bavaro put it, “This is not the real the real Dominican Republic”. And she was right. We found a different world as soon as we…

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