another procession? yep…clouds of incense, fireworks and a barge pulling up to the Cathedral….Marcel of El Cazadore Italiano knew the reason/event but it was over my head(as with most things)…any excuse to light stuff off seems to be the bottom line in Antigua… DaMayor’s SUV seen on 4th Avenida..dusty…hiding out from last week’s bad publicity [...]
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The Sludge Report
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Angie Angies, el cazadore italiano, fireworks, ocelot, Reillys on May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mutha’s Day, Antigua Style
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Casbah, el cazadore italiano, fireworks, fusion, Lava, ocelot, Reillys, sobremesa, whiskey den on May 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
which meant fireworks at 4am…o boy…and it wasn’t ‘just for breakfast anymore’ to quote the long gone Anita Bryant…a splash of Gordons with the 4am OJ seemed to put me back in slumberville..Mother’s Day in Antigua? started early with the brunch crowd and was winding up nicely with the dinner folks…sobremesa quiet, Fusion doing an [...]
A Day in Zone Ten
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel, central america, guatemala on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
yeah..’had the appointment at Sophos, the largest bookstore in the City but set for 3pm…my ride left A-Town at 9:30 and in the big bad city by 10:30…a stop at Nomex for a bbq thing…no avail, gonzo, sold out…11am…Z-10…found the bookstore, walked my ass off, sweated…3pm? yes! sales! Our Man in Antigua is now in [...]
Banana Rama Republic
Posted in golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged ocelot, Reillys on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
a long conversation with our local golf pro in Ocelot last night…he lamenting the lack of vision with his employers…to put it in some kind of perspective we live in a country the size of Tennessee but with twice the population…’run by a small group of oligarchs, similar to the Jack Daniels folks, the Coors [...]
Off-White Bucks
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged ocelot, Reillys on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
referring to the $200 a pair Cole-Haan shoes that I had to have as part of an Art Deco Society wing-ding in San Francisco back in the late 1900′s…the dark closet let some mold attack ‘em…no, not even a wipe-down with cheap vodka killed the microbes..a dusting with the ‘buck bag’ made a little difference…ah, [...]
