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Firecrackers

Posted in antigua, guatemala, tagged , on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This was some of the noisemakers that went on for days and seems to still be going on but with less frequency.

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el colchon

Posted in antigua, guatemala, tagged , , on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A few posts ago, I mentioned going in search of a pump. Well, first, out of necessity we soon learned the word for mattress — colchon, and the thing is the one in our nice apartment was awfully uncomfortable — mushy and springy. The first morning we woke up very sore indeed.
We found our apartment [...]

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New Years Eve

Posted in antigua, guatemala, tagged , on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

New Years Eve was a blast here in several ways.  We were out all day and by 9:00 PM we were struggling to get out at all for the big evening.  For most of the evening there was sporadic reports of firecrackers – some like the fairly benign ones that we were used to and [...]

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montezuma’s revenge?

Posted in guatemala, tagged , on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yep, it had to happen sooner or later. There we were standing at the cash register at the Bodegona (the supermarket) when I suddenly felt an incredible pain in my belly. “I have to go” I said to Lenny and walked in front heading home as quickly as I could all the while holding “it” [...]

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protesta en Antigua – protest in Antigua

Posted in antigua, guatemala, tagged , , on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As we were walking toward the Parque Central yesterday, we came across a protest. It was a good sized group with what seemed mostly Mayan people. From what I understood, the municipality wants to move or change the bus terminal which is currently located by the mercado. It’s a huge inconvenience to the many people [...]

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