another day of laughs, absurdities and ‘can you believe that?’…in a nutshell, that sums up life in Antigua, where the weird is commonplace, the insane is a daily event and….well, isn’t that why we live here? The National Enquirer couldn’t top a single day in this jacuzzi of chisme, history and/or past/present scoundrels. ah…Dan of Ay [...]
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Just Another Day In the Life
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Casbah, el cazadore italiano, ocelot on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bottom of the 5th, Debased and Loaded
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Da Vinci, ocelot, sobremesa, tabacos y vinos, whiskey den on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
thanks, Reed…all the free rounds you bought at O’lot’s 5 o’clock lush hour…Robert the Wheat! recovered, he says, from the typhoid…well, he was drinking beer(with alcohol, an antibiotic no-no) seriously…I commended him for his perserverance(something unknown on my planet)..what? give up drinking for ten days? yeah, I tried it 30 years ago, for a few months…just to [...]
Bloody Mary-Ville
Posted in Costa Rica, El Salvador, golf, Guatemala, Honduras, Living in Antigua, Nicaragua, Restaurants, Shopping, tagged drugs, semana santa on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
so…the big ‘decriminalization’ get-together yesterday with the five heads of government of Central America? three…the narco-staters of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador didn’t show up …well, I’m not sure about El Sal but the other two are ‘lay-downs’, which is an old used-car salesman’s word… Nadoosh, the latest attempt to cash in on the failed ‘hookah’ [...]
Nooks and Grannies
Posted in golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Da Vinci, drugs, el muro, our man in antigua, sobremesa on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
‘being a sexagenerian my days are often spent talking about food rather and sex/drugs…usually…there’s a brand of english muffins at Bodegona put out…oops, wrong word…made/baked by Europa that’s indistinguishable from many US bakers (meaning that i can’t remember the brand that advertised the ‘nooks and crannies’ thing..trust me…right…later, when the brain (sic)kicked in..Thomas’ English Muffins, [...]
