the town at mid-day very quiet…what few shops were open you had to wonder why…very last minute presents?….very strange, unless it was better than staying home. Even the street artists were late setting up and the streets? covered with more firework remnants than ever: the only better remains i’ve seen were in Amsterdam, on New [...]
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The Christmas Goose
Posted in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Mexico, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged atms, BAC, caffe bourbon, fireworks on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
No Gnus Sunday
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Mexico, Restaurants, Travel Safety, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged caffe bourbon, Casbah, drugs, ocelot, Reillys, travel on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If things get any slower/quieter in town there’s gonna be tumbleweeds blowin’ thru the streets..wait…Guate doesn’t have tumbleweeds, do they? damfew eateries doin’ biz and most of those had TV’s that served as entertainment…except for Caffe Bourbon with PM&M playing/singin’…a class act for a class joint..Las Palmas with a group, Chez Chris doing a couple [...]
Equal Librium For All
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Mexico, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel Safety, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged el caminante, el muro, ocelot, strippers, whiskey den on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I knew that when upper 4th avenida(my barrio)was flooded that…A. Water, like crap, flows downhill…B. I didn’t take an umbrella(again)when I left…but I’m learning to cadge and borrow umbrellas from likely establishments…’didn’t have to jump over too many streams or get too soaked. an abbreviated meeting of the ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ at Ocelot with a great anecdote…’stopped in country [...]
A Clockwork Naranjo
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Mexico, Travel Safety, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged drugs, Guatemala, guns on August 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »
the latest news seems to be that the violence of Thursday night started about 8:30 pm around La Merced, with a gay couple attacked and who went to a different hospital…a moto involved and a dark maroon truck with a white stripe..four hours later more attacks here and there..the publicity doesn’t seem to have been [...]
It ‘s a sick time, even in
Posted in Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Mexico, Restaurants, Travel Safety, Travel, central america, guatemala, What to Pack, tagged atms, BAC, drugs, el caminante, el muro, Guatemala, guns, ocelot, Reillys, strippers on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
this Brigadoon/semi/DisneyLand we call home: five people ram-dumbly attacked in town last night…2 outside El Muro, one outside dos Reilly’s, one on 6th calle somewhere and the last? a guatemalteco who lost a lotta blood and an ear…one of Ocelot’s bartenders stabbed…no, not Camilla or Carla…that would’ve been cause of a public lynching. four of [...]
