Bienvenidos A El Salvador!
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So this morning, we are off, we are leaving the hotel where we've been staying
Hotel La Casa de la Mamma Pan here in Ahuachapan and we are heading
to San Salvador today, we get in the public bus back to San Salvador
and we're meeting up with Edwin and the guys there
because this afternoon I'm not sure how it happened
but this afternoon we've managed to get on a local TV
station. So we are being interviewed, which should be interesting,
that should definitely test Mariannes' Spanish,
and I say Marianne's because I don't speak much Spanish,
apart from 'hola' and so yes the first thing is we've got to go
and try and find where the bus station is and see if we can find a tuk-tuk, or a
taxi or something to to get us there,
and we just like to say thank you to all the
lovely staff here at Casa de la Mamapan,
everybody's been so welcoming and it's so well located
here that it just made our stay perfect. Thank you !
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Adios !
Okay, so the first thing we've got to do is go and try and find a tuk-tuk,
and we're down by the square here there's quite a few tuk tuks passing by so
shouldn't be a problem.
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It's gonna be a squeeze getting all our bags into the tuk-tuk
and that was super easy, within seconds
a tuk-tuk stopped for us, and we are on our way to the local bus terminal.
And when I checked the price with the lady at the hotel.
She said it would be 50c each. And when i checked with the driver, I said there is 2 of us and all the bags.
How much will it cost ?
And he said 1 Dollar !! Which is exactly the price she said,
50c each!! so if you're worried about anybody in El Salvador
trying to rip you off, or take advantage of you as a tourist? That has never happened to us here.
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So after just a five-minute tuk-tuk ride,
we have arrived here at the main bus station
here in Ahuachapan and now we're gonna go find
where to get a bus to San Salvador
and I've got to say I was just struggling to get my rucksack on,
and three men from different directions
came straight over to help. Everyone's so nice here!
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Oh the bus has arrived straight away,
that is absolutely perfect timing.
It's just two dollars fifty each, and they have different types of buses,
it's best to get the special bus, which is air-con bus,
lots more comfortable.
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So that was super easy
we are now on the bus -10:23am so probably leaves about 10.30
Yes there is a local bus, that is $1.50, but we have an appt in San Salvador
And apparently this bus has less stops and is quicker, and has
air-con! The chicken buses which are the school buses
tend to be a lot slower, more experience, more adventure - Yeah we love the local buses are really
good fun the local buses, but yeah as Marianne says, today it's about getting
there from A to B as quickly as we can.
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This is this the most comfortable bus we have been on !
It really is !!
It feels reclined before you even recline it! yeah I think this is probably the most
comfortable public bus we have been on! reclining seats, air-con,
even got a little pocket for your drink, and was very comfortable I think the bus
ride is probably about two hours. So it is good that it is comfortable.
I need to share with you my experience of nuts in El Salvador!
Look at the size of that nut!
We bought some fresh cashews from one of the street vendors before we got on the bus
these nuts are massive!
that is a cashew nut ! Look at the size of it !!
And they are so delicious
This whole bag and we've already eaten a lot
was about £3, which is crazy.
You pay about £3 for about that many where we come from.
So after a two hour bus ride we have arrived back in San Salvador ! okay
good my friend, you?
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We have met up with Eduardo from EC Tours, and he's giving us a lift into town
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So we've arrived back in San Salvador, and look who we have found!
we found Estephany and if you haven't seen the video that we did with the
walking tour with EC Tours in San Salvador. It was a Estephany that took us
around and it was a Estephany that gave us the best first impression of this
wonderful Country, that we have grown to love and we are just enjoying, so we're
going to hang out with the guys from EC Tours and we might even go and get a bit
of lunch, before we got a TV interview this afternoon!
That's his fault!
If you want to know what a real Salvadorian woman is like, it is this women here!!
When we met her on the free walk, around San Salvador for our very first visit
she's so hopeful, so proud, so full of hope, that we fell in love with this Country.
So thank you, Estephany, for the best welcome ever to El Salvador.
Did you order a big salad? I thought I would try something healthy!
But look behind her!
What is that ?!
Just a couple of slices of pizzas!
We thought we'd have a healthy lunch because we haven't had any breakfast,
and it's the guys from EC Tours fault that we're eating so much pizza!!
So after far too much pizza with these guys, we are now heading to a hotel
here in San Salvador, Katy is coming in, and yeah these guys are the epitome of
El Salvadorian hospitality, for sure the TV interview this afternoon has been
delayed until tomorrow, so we get a nice lazy afternoon and it's
a women's program so it's gonna be all about me!!
So we're leaving the hotel and we should be being met by Edwin from EC tours
because this afternoon, we are being interviewed for a TV station here in
El Salvador on our travels,
so that's super cool! Look at the colour of that sky!
That is seriously going to rain!
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The studio is back there, and they are recording at the moment! Ssshh
So we're down here at Mujer Express in the studios
and we are miked up, and we are sat down in it's very comfy chairs,
There is the screen that is slightly off putting!
seeing yourself! and Katy's over here and she's going to do
some filming for us, and then our agent over here from EC Tours! who somehow
managed to get us on the TV, not quite sure how that happened!
Not that I am nervous at all and mumbling like a crazy woman!!
But yes, so this is a setup, everyone's been super fab and interviewing us in English!
Yes! we think so if not I've been doing extra moments in my Spanish lessons, so fingers crossed!
Greetings and welcomes !!
So we are going to have a chat of 12 minutes two,
different of 6 minutes each, OK
Lets do it !! Tread the Globe! Marianne ad Chris Fisher
Marianne, Chris welcome to our show.
it's a pleasure to have you here, it's very
different kind of guest and I love it, I love it and well we want to get started
knowing about you, we had the perfect lifestyle, we have the good jobs, we have
three children that left home and life was really good for us
but then we had a couple of life changing events, a couple of my friends
passed away a Marianne's best friend actually got really sick, so she donated
her kidney, and it made us re-look at our priorities in life, and so we've always
wanted to travel, so we quit the job, we sold everything in our house. We've
rented that house out, and now we're attempting to visit every country in
the world. We get on so well and we decided that what better way to enjoy our life as a married couple, than
to actually visit these different cultures, these beautiful places and just
be able to share it, with our friends and family with our YouTube channel, in fact
it was our children, who suggested that we start a YouTube channel.
Wow, I'm blown away and I really happy that you guys are here, telling all our
beautiful audience about this.
And we toured Ireland, we toured Europe and we've been to Central America since January
So we've been here for five months, backpacking ! That is why we look like this !!
Ha Ha Ha !!!
We have just been so lucky to have
such a wonderful experience. We've been welcomed by so many people
and we are so happy to be in El Salvador. We came on a walking tour
just because we decided to do not have any belief in any negative social media
or any kind of negative media content about any of these Central
American countries, and we came here met up with some guys from EC Tours
they took us on a tour of downtown San Salvador and
that video actually has over twenty one thousand views, and I cannot tell you how
many comments we have had. All of these comments, positive, so proud and
and that's one of our things that we appreciate the most from Salvadorian people.
How proud they are, how hopeful they are, we had a beautiful experience kayaking in Suchitoto,
on Suchitlan, and it was the most beautiful, peaceful, the lake
was like glass, all the wildlife it was just beautiful that's my moment. That is your moment.
For me it is the people, the people have made El Salvador something very special
really very special, thank you so much for coming, thank you so much for telling
every Salvadorian about the treasure that we actually have here, and reminding
us to really enjoy it every day and enjoy life, so thank you very much and I
wish you all the best in this journey, and thank you to all of El Salvador for having us.
it's raining central American style you don't want to get caught in that!
when it rains, it really rains!
is this getting me ready for a camera in my face?!