Candelaria Antigua Hotel Antigua Guatemala

... br><br>Moving on from Costa Rica took us to Isla de Ometepe, an Island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua and a place I had visited in 2004. The pace of life is slow here and finally the weather has a very humid tropical feel. For those of you who are suit-wearing office monkeys, the climate is similar to what you would find in your boxer shorts on a hot summer day while walking the city ...

... best of us, and we all walked out on the street to see what was going on. Everybody was more or less apprehensive, but speaking to another resident foreígner we learned that they apparently were doing a raid checking employees working permits - which many foreign employees do not have - as well as checking the hygiene and sanitary conditions. Eventually, two cops also made it into Reilly's, but they were just standing there next to us with their huge rifles. It was really a ...

... cuidad will have to wait for another blog as this one is about our casa and familia.<br><br>We live on calle de chajjon in a two story house built for homestays. We enter the front door to our house (all houses are behind walls in Antigua and not until you enter the first door do you realize just how much fits behind the wall) and are greeted by a plethera of plants and flowers (and smells). Although we are considered within the confines ...

... 11 months old, respectively. Quite untraditionally, only the mother seems to be working. She works in the city (which is how you refer to Guatemala City here) with administering hotel taxes. The father might be working part time as a bus driver, but is home most of the time. <br><br>The rooms are placed around a tiny courtyard. They do not really have a kitchen per se, but a small room containing their stove and a microwave. Next to it is a small room containing ...

... dose of the locals and their bad attitude, we hooked up with a few others and decided to get off of Bocas and over to the little secluded island of Bastemiente<br>'Twas Bek, Mark, Irish Chris, Swiss Corrine and I. Between us, we hired out a neat little cabin for a couple of days. The only downer about this place was we had to trek through the jungle to get down to the beach...not so bad, but the risk of being attacked by machete weilding youths made it that little ...

... The community tried to convince me to participate in an "Emergency Inauguration" of the school and inaugurate it before my leaving, but unfortunately due to setbacks in the mayor's time schedule for sending us the supplies for the roof supports, the school was not actually finished by the day I left Guatemala, and I did not feel right about inaugurating it before its time. The inauguration is a very important ceremony for community-building ...

... to scared to say no... "London you say, might be a ***** to get home but im not here to rock the boat, ermmmm yeah why not". So the inevitable followed jumping off at points that were literally in the middle of nowhere standing at the side of the road with sometimes the most strangest characters being the only signs of life including at times well i don't know what to call them, mercenaries, soldiers, vigilantes, whatever they had some serious weapons slung over their ...

... a v**y beautiful city, with the "c*l*nial h*uses". I cann*t describe it in English... th**e was a garden in the middle *f the h*use that y*u c*uld see fr*m the d**r, and a f*untain in the m*ddle *f the garden. I disc*v**ed th**e I l*ve f*untains, since I wanted t* make a picture *f any *f them, even if they w**e quite similar. The buldings are small and v**y c*l*urful, and y*u find a l*t *f br*ken churches (because *f ...

... now night time) we saw the procession was still going on but now lit up by a generator being pushed behind. It was pretty amazing that it have been going on that long. We also went to the Filadelfia Estate and did a coffee plantation tour. This farm sends 90% of it´s coffee to Starbucks. I was in heaven!!! It was pretty interesting. We found out that it take 5lb of fresh coffee beans to make 1lb of roasted coffee beans. And we ...

... He will though - he´s German. When we got off the bus, we were immediately confronted by children selling walking sticks. Sticks are for wimps. I couldn`t think why I´d need one. Other than to beat Franz. The guide gathered us round and explained the trek - in Spanish. I got a nice English couple to translate. We were the panther group, we should listen to what the guide said and stick together at all times and ...