La Casa Grande Guatemala City

... but rather for drug dealers but either way I straightened up when I walked passed them.
Second day, I went to Antigua which is about 1 hour outside of the city. It is a Spanish colonial town complete with cobblestone streets and brightly colored buildings. Besides the intense tourist traffic with the associated high prices on everything the town was really nice. It had a cafe culture which a local who I met in one of the cafes told me was lacking ...

... 8211; 2 (I was so paranoid that my hayfever related 'nasal flux' might arouse suspicion!)

Face masks – 1 oriental family of five – facemasks and gloves :D

Cute kids on plane – at least 3 but one Swedish toddler with blonde curls kept running up and down the plane grinning at us all, so she won.

Mexicana airline were actually very nice, we didn’t have our own film screens or choice about what we watched but the seats ...

... sticks so we roasted marshmallows over the lava before heading back down the mountain. It was really hot and hard to breathe the closer we got to the magma. It also was kind of scary because the volcano could have spewed more lava at any time and we could have been forced to run down the rocky mountain in hopes to escape it. Luckily though we just got to see a magma flow about one foot wide down the ...

... in the afternoon at about 17:00. There were all these men and boys dressed in purple robes that helped lead the procession. Then comes the placards of the stations of the cross. Then some Roman soldiers. Then, the piece de resistance, a massive float of Jesus carrying the cross. But not a float with wheels. It was being carried by at least 24 men. After the float came a band playing very somber music. We thought that was it. 2 hours ...

... had hot water. He assured me that it did, and left. It didn´t have hot water. Or towels. Or sheets on the beds. But by now it was too late to look elsewhere so we decided to grin and bear it for a night. At least it was cheap. But if I see that English couple again while I´m here, I´m going to set one of the rabid dogs on them. After we´d checked in we wandered out to find a quick bite to eat. The problem with it ...

... we had to do a little more navigating to get to the flowing lava (about 2 hours). Second time round the views were amazing! At the start there are lots of kids trying to sell walking sticks. I got one for 5Q and then it gets returned to the children, but they keep the money. I really liked the walking stick.

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