Translation of balsam in German

All travel agents, but one, were all pritty unreliable as one could perceive immediately. We did not care for a dollar more or less and everybody promised the same which was not convincing.
thanks for the compliment! Can you understand me when I write in English? Spanish sounds so beautiful when spoken. I would really like to be able to speak Spanish fluently, since I am planning a trip to Peru.
I just wrote an extremely long blog item but it took so long that I got logged out. I'm too lazy to write again or to write anything at all, so that I will postpone my blog entry to next week.