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March 2007

Even the Windows Wear Violet

Back in March 6th I showed to you the entry doorway of Hotel Santo Domingo (Holy Sunday, by the way) with violet …

Why do We Love Our Land?!

We don’t love our land because of its great size and power, because of its weakness or tiny size, because of its …

Malo Mori Quam Foedari

No, they are not Ku Klux Klan as you might be inclined to believe at first glance. They are cucuruchos which is …

Name All the Tropical Fruits

One of the things I like best about La Antigua Guatemala is its location. One hour or less from Guatemala City and …

Saturday for Lunch

Sometimes there is no better lunch than a great book. Now I am having Saturday from Ian McEwan for lunch. The prologue …

Inside a Bicycle Repair Shop

I have posted many photos of bicycles in and around Antigua Guatemala and I even said that bicycles are among the most-widely …

Stain Glass Señor or Mister

Even simple details like the marker for the men’s bathroom is done with style in many places around Antigua Guatemala. Here you …

Guatemalan Textiles at La Fuente

On the weekends the center garden around the fountain in La Fuente strip mall and restaurant is carpeted by Guatemalan textiles on …

Tuk Tuk Meeting

Is it motorcycle or automobile? The meeting of the tuk tuk drivers and the police was to define the tuk tuk as …

Theme Day: Men at Work

Architecture arose from man’s necessity to shelter from the environment. First, he used the caves where he left registered scenes from his daily life, to then build, with the materials found in nature, his home. As humankind organized socially and the jobs became specialties, the first masons appeared and transformed the natural materials such stone and wood, and invented others like adobes and bricks from clay. (fragment from La mano de obra en la arquitectura from JM Magaña in Recrearte Magazine, page 8, available in Spanish as a PDF download)