El Ing. Ricardo Brown obtuvo en 1991 una beca del gobierno de Alemania para estudiar ciencias forestales en la ESNACIFOR, Honduras recibiendo su título en 1994. En 1995 ingresa a la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH) para la obtención del título de Ingeniero Forestal. Recibió una beca de la Organización Internacional de Maderas Tropicales [...]

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Cada año, millones de toneladas de basura se producen como resultado de las fiestas de fin de año. Esta Navidad es un buen momento, como cualquier otro, para empezar a reducir nuestra huella ecológica. Pero si usted piensa que haciendo una donación anual a una organización ambientalista está libre de toda culpa y ha comprado [...]

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La primera vez que me dijeron que los berlineses se molestaban si el bus, metro o tranvía llegaba dos minutos tarde, sencillamente me pareció algo exagerado y no lo pude creer, pero después de dos visitas a Alemania y de haber usado sus sistemas de transporte público ahora los entiendo perfectamente.
Me pregunto si algún día [...]

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On Friday July 4th, my second day in Krakow, I decided to go to visit the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz. To go there from Krakow it is necessary to take a bus or a train to the city of to Oswiecim. From Mlynek’s place I walked to take the tram #19 at Borek Falecki [...]

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I am really upset with the Facebook administrators. They suspended my account there with no valid reasons and now I can not access phone numbers and addresses of friends I am going to stay with in Germany and Sweden. I sent an email complaining about this abuse and they are taking several days to [...]

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On Tuesday I spent part of the morning in Couchsurfing.com trying to confirm a place to stay in Krakow getting a confirmation from Mlynek to stay at his place for two nights. Later on I walked around Old Riga taking pictures, buying some snacks in the Supermarket and looking for a traditional linen Latvian [...]

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The temperature in Riga was 20C at my arrival. Just perfect! Reinis, who I met in Couchsurfing.com offered to pick me up at the airport. We took the bus 22 to Old Riga where Jeivgenija, also from Couchsurfing accepted me to stay at her place for two nights. Her roommate, Beta, received [...]

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In the hotel’s breakfast I met a new friend from Honduras. She had a situation with her return back to Honduras being stuck in Atlanta for two days. We decided to go to the Acuarium and surrounding areas.
To move to the city we did exactly what I did the day before. We took the complimentary [...]

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I always wanted to start my own blog and this three weeks backpacking trip couchsurfing style I feel is the best opportunity to do it.
I wanted to make a tour in Europe visiting places related with World War II since many years ago. A special situation pushed me to buy a ticket to Latvia and [...]

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