Antigua is comfortable, aside from my hostel (one of the worst beds I´ve had so far). They have such good coffee at Fernando´s, great chicken at Pollo Campero (local KFC) and I found a local eatery that serves a 3-course lunch for Q16! Yummy clean food. Oh, and I also went to a great exhibit that´s touring Latin America. Laberinto de Miradas. Id...

Hi, Am finally getting around to posting more piccies... First lot have just received fomr a fellow diver in Cozumel (Top man, cheers Rune!) so they are going back a little bit. Check out the nurse shark, conga eel and the beast that made it onto out boat! Sorry, thats cruel. I look pretty demented but hey.. whats new? Then comes the trip from S...

.....on the road again..........this time with a few more friends in tow...Frey and I are starting our Cental America journey and by luck or chance Tex, Rich and Mike from Cayman are on our flight too..all friends in Cayman..and with Emily flying in too that makes 6 of us on the road....we all know each other as Frey has just met them at the big...

With nearly everyone that I met along my trip telling me of their favorite places in Central America, nearly all in Guatemala, I skipped the Corn Islands in Nicaragua and headed north. Idyllic beaches are nice, but after a few they tend to run together. Antigua is definitely not the representative sample of the whole of Guatemala, but it is a be...

Arrived in the much calmer Antigua after short "chicken bus" trip from Guatemala City. Getting on the bus was quite funny and demonstrated I hadnt completely lost my paranoia about Guat City. Typically the buses have a driver and a wingman who hangs out the door shouting out where the bus is going , trying to beckon passengers on board and takin...

Buenas Tardes from Antigua, Guatemala! This is a test blog, as it is the first one I have done. In future blogs I hope to have pictures, just figuring that part out, too. We left Albuquerque, New Mexico 1/19/08 and hopped to Phoenix, then LA, arriving in Guatemala City, Guatemala at 0530 1/20/08. Our guide book advised that the safest way to Ant...

Hola amigos, So on this trip I´ve gotten a lot of practice at listening to my gut feeling (intuition....whatever you want to call it) But sometimes I´m very stubborn and don´t want to listen to it. Sat i had bought a cheaper ticket for a shuttle home. Throughout the day I kept having this reoccuring thought that I should not take that shuttle ho...

Hola! I hear it´s quite cold back home. I´m not complaining but last night I wore my long johns, wool socks, sweatshirt, and hat-and still cold! My house is hard to explain but I´ll try. There are 2 huge doors that open into the street and they park there two cars in there. Then in a U shape around the cars are bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen. My ro...

I´ve decided that it was the best decision I could have made. Not ten minutes had passed from the time I got through customs did I meet not one, but two extremely kind and generous people. First, a guy who was waiting for his friends offered to share a cab with me but I had to wait with him til his friends got here. Then, when I had decided to j...

We arrived in Antigua last night in the middle of a flood! HOwever the hotel is nice and dry. We ate in a Bovarian restaurant last night it was really good too. but had an early night. We spent the day wandering around the town. Its lovely all the streets look the same and the buildings are non-descript from the outside, howeve, poke your head a...