What's Up El Salvador

Today we wanted to go to the Mercado, but didn’t want to drive all the way to Santa Tecla. We had heard about the Mercado Municipal in the San Antonio Abad area, but missed it and drove around in circles. Fortunately, we had lunch with a new friend, and he gave us a tip about [...]

Although I prefer to think of myself as a globe-trotting, coffee-sourcing, beer-brewing international expat living abroad in the tropics; truth is that despite all that sexy sauce I am also a dad and husband. And in that role I constantly find that I have to bleed cash (otherwise known as buy things) on all kinds of stuff. This is a series on the costs of various items in El Salvador.

I have had the good luck of several conversations with Federico Bolanos, and his wife Lilly Pacas, most well known internationally for their work with Viva Espresso. Most recently, Alejandro Mendez, a representative of the award winning coffee company surprised the world, by bringing home the first World Barista Championship to a coffee producing country. [...]

In the latest issue of Escape From America Magazine is an article we wrote for the magazine. It is titled: 8 Things We Love About Our Expat Life in El Salvador and 3 Things We Don’t Like.   Here is an excerpt:   Read the article to see what we don’t like about living in [...]

This 4th of July, the family decided to visit Guatemala City. We wanted to see a few friends there, and to get out and stretch our expat adventure wings. Living in El Salvador means we are close to so many cool countries. This is a synopsis of the trip, and it may help you out [...]

Because I am in love with good coffee and watching it take over in El Salvador, I asked a couple of people who work hard to promote it to answer a few questions. El Salvador won the World Barista Championship, but on the other hand, some people say the coffee culture here is just getting [...]

This is a series of beer reviews of every cerveza available in El Salvador. From the national brands, the local imports and the European imports. I will be working through every beer type in the country. Including any home brew beers I can find including my own. Dunkel is a wheat beer from Erdinger.  Erdinger [...]

Yesterday the ground was alive, grass glowed, the fish gave me a pedicure and the tides paced the day. My husband´s 42nd birthday was a good excuse to take a short trip. So we packed up an overnight bag and headed out with our 5-year-old daughter and her little dog Freddy to the Bahia de [...]

This is a series of beer reviews of every cerveza available in El Salvador. From the national brands, the local imports and the European imports. I will be working through every beer type in the country. Including any home brew beers I can find including my own. Weissbier is a wheat beer from Erdinger.  Erdinger [...]

Yesterday we had a really excellent lunch at a new restaurant by our house in Colonio Escalon, San Salvador called Rossler.  Coming from the Bay Area of Northern California our food and drink standards are incredibly high. We have learned to adjust our food expectations sideways a bit while living in El Salvador as expats. [...]