Hotel La Casona De Antigua Antigua Guatemala

... par, var der altsaa 12 vielser der skulle foretages i stedet. Praesten afsagde troskabseden hoejt og dernaest gik han rundt med en mikrofon hvortil de svarede: Si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si.. Guatemelanere kan i mange henseender ikke, undskyld mig, effektivisere selv de simpleste ting, men bryllupper er de imponerende effektive til at faa afviklet.

... House. Its a great hostel. We paid just under $6 each. The rooms were really nice. I got a double bed...YEAH! They had hot solar powered showers, free potable water and a free breakfast that can not be rivaled! Eggs, beans, bread, coffee, fruit, potatoes....YUM! The lady who served the breakfast every day would say, ¨Esta Bien?¨ Ësta Bien.¨ I wish I could convey the inflection, because it was kind of catchy and everyone in the ...

... it. Imagine my surprise, when I learned that Eliane and Matthew – two other students – only were paying the equivalent of USD 90 for 25 lessons per week!! Eliane had found a small pamphlet with these prices, showed it to Mario and thus ended up paying a lot less than me. When I confronted Mario with this, he said that these were the old prices and that the pamphlets were outdated. He said I paid the correct price, as it was written on the internet. I ...

... yelling twenty different cities. Can we say
overwhelmed? As we stood there, attempting to explain to one man what
we were trying to accomplish, an angel stepped in. His name was Damian
and he was from Brooklyn. Not every day do you meet angels named
Damian, and especially not ones from Brooklyn. But this one was a
Guatemalan tour guide who spoke fluent Spanish and English and took
pity on pathetic gringos like us. He was going in the same direction ...

Monday, 9 September, Day 227



Antigua, Guatemala

Me Amigo: "Good evening Jasper, what did you do today?"

Jasper: “Oh not much, just climbed an active volcano and saw streams of lava”

My Amigo: “Wow that sounds pretty ****ing awesome, please tell me ...

... is a liar, or that guy that swears he is leaving now will wait until more people turn up. The 40 minute trip (which should have been 1 hour) was interesting, it sounded like the driver was having a domestic with his wife, while zipping through lanes of traffic, cutting off a few annoyed drivers.

Antigua is a beautiful city, buildings brightly painted like those in the Caribbean but, as is the case with all tourist towns, prices were very inflated. Our hotel had no record of our ...

... rain problems yet so all is good :D

We went to many markets, most of which sold similar items (which I made the naïve mistake of buying a headband at the first one I saw, and failing to haggle… or try it on first in fact – it is minorly constricting and make me look like I have had a facelift!) Anwen bided her time and bought a similar hairband and a bracelet for the same amount of money later in the day!! We have some very amusing photos of ...

... of the 3. It is an inactive volcano, that is full of water inside. Back in the 1700s, the volcano let go all the water and Antigua city was flooded. Actually Antigua, despite of its great looks, is a city that has suffered quite much and there are signs everywhere of it. There's been several earthquakes, flooding and other natural disaster, but still it keeps its beauty. That shows not only the determination of it residents but the well ...

... it! Once at my hotel, I slowly unpack my first tamal. It is huge! And surprisingly, not at all like yesterday ... Well, much much better, actually... Delicious! It consists of mashed potatoes with chunks of potatoes and there, in the middle, a green pepper and, well hidden at the bottom, a piece of meat: chicken in muy first tamal and and pork in the second . It is spicy, but without exaggeration. Just right! It was a ...

Reminiscent of San Cristobal in Mexico, Antigua is a quaint town of cobbled streets lined with colourful houses. Accommodation is more on the expensive side (for Guatemala) but still reasonable. There are loads of young people here studying Spanish and where better to go to school amidst the backdrop of three active volcanoes! The first couple of days here we spent wandering the streets and visiting the markets and it was in a particular fruit market that the threat of a stomach ...