Recent content by Sofia&Anders

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    Place to stay in LT from Tuesday?!?

    When planning our trip to the DR we were told not to book more than a few days in advance, but wait until we got here. So, we're here in LT, two adults and three small kids, with a hotel room booked until Tuesday...and apparently NOT booking was a lousy idea...since everything is overbooked...
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    Churches?

    Hi! Do you guys know of any churches with services in English in las Terrenas or Cabarete? We're Protestant/Lutheran/evangelical/pseudo pentecostal/cryptocatholic so denomination is of lesser interest. (...although I'm an Evangelical Lutheran pastor). Same Christ, right?
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    Fair Trade plantations?

    Hi! In Sweden most Fair Trade bananas are from the Dominican Republic. Since we're going there it would be awesome to be able to visit a Fair Trade plantation to get the kids interested in these matters and bring some good info back home. Does anybody know if this could be possible - and how we...
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    Too much beans...?

    ...can give you an upset stomach! Gosh, some people are negative! Introduced ourselves, got some good tips and a LOT of sour grapes about the expensiveness of the country, what a lousy idea it is to travel around in the DR with kids and how unfriendly and dishonest the Dominican people generally...
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    Two months away from everything!

    Hi! We're a Swedish family of five planning the vacation of our dreams. Two months in the DR, with "chilling" being our primary aim. No luxury, no all inclusive resorts, no fancy plans, just our family, the beaches and a lot of time on our hands. Mainly looking at the North coast, but starting...