Hotel Primavera Panajachel

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Today was our second and last day in Panajachel. As we would be leaving back to Antigua in the late afternoon we decided that we would take it easy today and just do a little walking around the neighborhood and check out the lake. Being that it seemed to be a very clear day we spent much time just sitting by the shores of Lake Atitlan and enjoying the views. While there we ...

... to get on this flight our connection window would be a mere half hour. By now, as you can imagine, even though things were starting to look slightly better we were both still very worried because the chances of everything working just right to place us where we wanted to be seemed bleak. <br><br>By a stroke of further luck we noticed on a departures monitor that there was an even earlier flight leaving to Miami and were able to get ourselves on it. It had a standby list ...

... because there is only one contractor in town and so he can run the show. Makes you realize how nice it is to have all the competition in NY and to get the good prices. <br><br>Anyway after a beer and watching some salsa lessons and listening to plenty of salsa, we head home and get a little lost. We end up getting some directions from a stranger who sees we look lost and is really nice. Too nice I think so I think he is trying to set us up to mug us. He tells ...

... in Pana for quite a while. Actually the owner has walked through all the towns around the lake and made a couple of books, one about the different fables told by the locals and another book of history informatoin about the culture and the lake. <br><br>After we got settled in the hotel, went out to see Panajachel. We were told in San Pedro that if we made it to Pana we had to go to a restaurant called Circus bar. It is a circus-theme retaurant ...

My early morning started with an 5:30 am shuttle pick-up to Panajachel. There was a slight mis-communication when my driver arrived at 5:30 and I meet him at the hotel lobby but due to either of us speaking the other's language I did not think he was my driver. The driver then proceeded to my room while I waiting for what I thought would be another group van. It turned out that I was the only one needing a shuttle to ...

On a rdv à 9h à Nestlé Antigua pour la visite des labo et de l'usine. (Je suis partie avec 3 employées Nestlé...) Laetitia peut enfin rencontrer ses collègues avec qui elle discute par mail. Elle voit aussi la machine sur laquelle elle travaille et qu'ils viennent tout juste de recevoir, et voilà ça papote boulot, décidément... La 2ème partie de la visite est pour l'usine, Nancy est en short et ça pose un problème, elle va donc chercher un uniforme. Ana demande un ...

... But anyways, she's really nice and makes great food. And she cleans my room and makes my bed! Scrappy, the family dog. Well, in a nutshell, he's old, smells bad and is just rather unpleasant. He also does his business anywhere he pleases, it seems. Marta brushes it off, saying he's old. Warren and I have been plotting his demise. As it's probably been clear by now, Marta and the fam are pretty traditionally Guatemalan Catholic. This ...

... to an Irish bar to wind the evening down where we laughed a lot more. The early morning departure was very unwelcome and sad. The action packed two and a half week sister act was at an end and there would be no more family until August. It was time for supertramps to have to decide what to do next so a weeklong homestay with spanish lessons in nearby already visited San Pedro sounded like a good way to recover from the devastating sisters.