Convento de las Capuchinas Antigua Guatemala

A late start this morning. So late, in fact, that the maid came in to clean while I was still here uploading photos to yesterday's blog. I am off to the post office today but first I have to finish writing the post cards up. Maybe I will eat a few more walnuts and dates before I go out.

Did I eat breakfast first or do other stuff - I …

Entry containing 9 photos titled: Catedral de Santiago, Cerro de la Cruz, Coffee Plantation., Coffee Beans Drying, Main Courtyard, Nuns' Cells, Street in Antigua, Easter Procession

Hopefully, the video I made of the Easter procession will be attached to this blog post …

We were up and about by 7am as we'd woken up ridiculously early due to the time difference. (To be fair, we were fast asleep by 8pm last night Guatemalan time!)

So, after breakfast, (during which I learnt the Spanish for 'scrambled eggs'), we went on a city tour. We were the only people on the bus so it became a personalised tour. We went …

... was built between 1705 and 1720 and was damaged by an earthquake in 1773 and has laid in ruins ever since. Iglesia y Convento de las Capuchinas - This was an elegant colonial church that was severely damaged by the earthquake of 1773, but has undergone ...

... the remains of an old convent Santa Teresa, which is currently being used as the local jail.  Finally I arrived at the Convento de las Capuchinas, which supposedly has the most beautiful ruins in Antigua, but I arrived after it closed at 5pm.  ...

... was built between 1705 and 1720 and was damaged by an earthquake in 1773 and has laid in ruins ever since. Iglesia y Convento de las Capuchinas - This was an elegant colonial church that was severely damaged by the earthquake of 1773, but has undergone ...