The Salvadorean Pacific coast is apparently one of the best surf spots in the world. Unfortunately the sport didn`t come as naturally to me as I thought it should. After an hour of lessons, I made almost no progress in even standing up on the surfboard and finished feeling exhausted and in slight physical uncomfort from lying on the board for so long. I tried again the next day, but this just added more humiliation by being shown up by ten year olds. I realised e...

Leaving the hostel in Granada at four in the morning, I was so tired on the bus that I slept through the two hours in which I was in Honduras, which according to my passport I have visited. We arrived in San Salvador in the early afternoon and checked into a hostel, ominously in the undertaker`s district of town. It was also one of the few hostels in which you don`t pay for a room by the hour. If our first impressions of the El Salvador capital were not bad enoug...