wordpress, you idiots..you keep making ‘improvements’…stick with a tried/true method…newer isn’t always better…take me, for example..older and worse, some say. it was a musical evening…Ron Fortin on sax (and great) on the Ocelot patio, Adan the cuban pianist with a bongo player doing side riffs at Los Arcos…5ta norte doing a great evening…I bailed before [...]
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Night Crawlers
Posted in Cuba, golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged el cazadore italiano, fusion, Lava, ocelot, our man in antigua, Reillys on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Greasing the Wheels
Posted in Cuba, El Salvador, golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Da Vinci, El Salvador, La ReUnion, ocelot, our man in antigua on March 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
thank you, Nicky Z, for making the day perfect…La ReUnion! choppers flying in/out, the place crawling with people and more players on the golf course than i’ve ever seen…John Kim, old pal from Havana days, now living in sweet San Salvador…brought the in the latest shipment of superb cigars and a type of Montecristo I’ve [...]
Not Much Ado About Doo-Doo
Posted in Cuba, golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged our man in antigua, sobremesa on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
if there ever was a classic ‘Monday’ this might have been it: a day when nuthin’ went right or as advertised, hoped for or considered…a case in point: the printer, overdue for the first local versions of the 2nd Edition of Our Man….oops…’well, maybe by Wednesday…’..and this was planned for today…hey, it’s Chinatown, Jake…as it [...]
Twas Biblical
Posted in Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Living in Antigua, Nicaragua, Restaurants, Travel Safety, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Da Vinci, drugs, El Salvador, Guatemala, guns, Honduras, sobremesa, strippers, travel on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
referring to the rains tonight, afternoon, cha cha…the umbrella was useless, the streams in the calles/avenidas deep enough to surf and so on…They pulled the rugs out from under Abassi, the Indian restaurant on 4th calle…the rug merchants gone, the retaurant moved up by El Caminante on 1st Avenida. I sense some difficult times ahead for [...]
Hail, Gluteus Maximus!
Posted in Cuba, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged elle patille, guns, ocelot, travel on August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
a posteriori, of course. I think I’m acquiring an appreciation for some Guatmalteca’s ‘assets’…some exceedingly tasty ladies in tight jeans strolling around 5th and the park and a lotta people headed for La Merced…parking lot jammed, bells ringing…is there a big wedding or a big bingo payout tonight? It could be worse, if one were in [...]
