SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua – It was quite easy to spot the rebbetzin, or the rabbi’s wife, within my first few minutes of a hot February afternoon in the Nicaraguan beach town of San Juan del Sur. Looking as if she belonged more in Brooklyn, with her modest, long dress and pushing a baby in a carriage, she bought a fruit juice in a definitively New York-accented Spanish.
The oldest European-founded city in the Americas is just over the border with Nicaragua. This city of around 100,000 is the epicenter for our northern neighbor's tourism industry, and with good reason.
The first European-founded city in the Americas lies just to our north. Granada, Nicaragua, is famous for its colonial architecture, cobblestone calzada, and great...
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it’s a work of art.
In this third excerpt from our Nicaragua travelogue, Bill Holman bikes...
