Howard Johnson Inn Guatemala City
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Guat a pyramid
After sweltering through an International Airport with no air conditioning for a few hours (why give you a false impression of the country) I left Cuba for Guatemala. My flight arrived close to midnight after a detour via Panama and I wondered how my reservation would be especially after the fiasco of Cuba….but on exiting the airport there …
Armageddon Outta Here
... Star Wars geek in the family- I stick to my Harry Potter and Peter Pan geekness (see our Scotland blog). Anyway!
We spent our last day in Flores just enjoying the sunshine and the lake. We took a speedboat ferry to a neighboring island, strolled the town, and spent the balance of the afternoon on a lakeside deck of a small bar. For the last 2 days, the rains haven't started in the early afternoon, so the entire day was hot and summerlike.
In the ...
Here I Go Again On My Own
... yo no se' or 'no hablo espanol.' And I was close...on the cusp of being able to speak it when I traveled through Spain in high school and Ecuador in 2007. But then I would come back to the US and forget all about my new vocab, verbs and conjugations. So there I sat several years later discussing this frustration with Chip, Michael, and Taylor (our Queenstown friends who happen to be from Fort Collins, CO). Taylor agreed. But it was Michael ...
Odds and Ends
... course lunch for a special price. Course one was a seafood soup with clams. Not a big fan of clams but the soup part was good. Second course was chicken in a yummy sauce that had spinach and tomatoes with a side of rice and green beans. Finally, for dessert I had cherry sorbet. Not being much of a foodie it was nice to splurge on a special meal in a great ambiance...old colonial with cool details.
Today was ...
Presidents and processions
... all with different names, Mexico, Damascus and ours, Passage to India. Marina, the owner, gave us a very warm welcome and lots of information about Antigua. All we wanted to do initially though was dive in the shower and wash off the dust and dirt of the journey.
It was a ten minute walk to the central square where we found an ATM to get some more quetzales and then wandered around looking at restaurants. There were a lot to choose from and ...