Malena loves candy. And travel. And both together. And thus, this site was born.
I take a lot of random pictures of candy that never get posted here. To help fix that, I’m going to start randomly posting pictures with a small description of the candy on an irregular basis. This is something I’d wanted to start earlier, but when my laptop hard drive broke I lost all of the pictures that I never uploaded to Flickr - quite a blow!
These are gomitas. My Abuelita’s favorite candy, we bought numerous different bags to try them all, and the ones pictured here were my favorite - sweet, soft, and flavorful gumdrops!
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It was raining in Masatepe. That wasn’t unusual. After all, I was visiting Nicaragua during the rainy season or more optimistically, “green” season. I had spent most my time of the two hour ride on the chicken bus wondering what I was going to do when I arrived, and now I had my answer: run for the nearest shelter. A kindly bookstore owner in Granada had directed me here, to the supposed nerve center of Nicaraguan candy, but I had no idea where to actually find the sweets. (more…)
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