Laundry day

Clothes washing

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November 2nd 2008
We must seem often quite backward to our host family and the people of Sabana Grande. The classic example of this has been clothes washing. In these parts there aren’t any of those fancy washing machines to stick your smalls in and select programme D. Here you have a stone washing board of some ilk, detergent, soap and a lot of elbow grease. When we first declared we needed to wash our clothes a ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Northern Highlands » Estelí

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The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the fir... ... read more