It’s time to chill out in La Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Cervezas for beers. This is one of most important words you can learn in …
Portraits of Strangers: The Pregonera
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Pregonera or town crier. I caught a glance of the news member of the …
Ruins of Santa Isabel, Antigua Guatemala
It’s been a while since I visited the ruins of Santa Isabel in june 2007, located in hidden plaza on the village …
The Day Guatemala Stood Still
On August 27, Guatemalans from all over were to call to a general national strike with the goal to ask for the …
Would you like to try my chocolates?
Here is your Spanish word of the day: Chocolatería for chocolate shop or factory. Slowly but surely La Antigua Guatemala has become …
Pad Thai From Café Flor, Antigua Guatemala
Foodies of the world, welcome to the most cosmopolitan epicurean town in Central America. In a grid a little less than a …
The Black Ribbon Campaign Reaches La Antigua Guatemala
Normally I try to stay away from the the hot news from Guatemala as my goal has always been to provide an …
Meet La Bancada de la Plaza Mayor de La Antigua Guatemala
The Bancada, the bench people, of the main square is a group of men who get together everyday around a bench to …
Mochaccino Time in Antigua Guatemala
Cafecito anyone, anyone? As usual, La Antigua Guatemala is the premier coffee destination in Central America. Not only we can find excellent …
Textures and colours from Antigua Guatemala
What’s your favourite color from Antigua Guatemala. Methinks mine is yellow.
Guatemala Is On Fire
Guatemala is on fire! If you don’t know what’s going on, search the news about Guatemala. On the other hand, in La …
Natural Organic Balls From Guatemala
Can anyone guess how are these organic colourful balls made?
Quotidian Vistas from Antigua Guatemala
One of the basic things I shared during the Antigua Photo Walks I lead is how to capture authentic stamps of daily …
The Colours and Smiles from Antigua Guatemala
Here’s another typical stamp of daily life from Guatemala. I hope you like it and find the words in your heart to caption it. I will send a real photo post card to the best caption for this photograph via the traditional postal service.
Antique Coffee Pulper As Decoration
Often I have shared in the past how La Antigua Guatemala has its own aesthetic values. I really appreciate the old, worn, …
Weekend Vistas At Calle del Arco
On the weekends and holidays, Calle del Arco is turned into a pedestrian path. Honest, I don’t understand why they don’t make …
Driest Rainy Season Ever in Antigua Guatemala
This a typical vista during the dry season, normally November through April. This year however, this is the sort of vista one …
Tempering Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate
I was fortunate that they were tempering chocolate while I was at Choco Museo making some photos about the process of making …
Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate, What’s Your Favourite?
Basically, chocolate comes in three flavours, dark chocolate, usually 70% cacao liquor or more; milk chocolate, quite possibly the most popular version …
Traditional Maya Grounding of Cocoa Beans
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Molcajete or mortar and pestle. So how did the Maya and Mexica grounded their …
Did you know that Guatemala is the cradle of chocolate?
The birthplace for chocolate is Guatemala, which is the heartland of the Mayan world. Chocolate means bitter drink in Nahualt, that’s the …
Portón of La Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day from Antigua Guatemala: Portón or gate, or large door. It’s been a while since …
Cellular Towers Inside Coffee Plantations
Worry not about being unplugged while touring the coffee plantations around La Antigua Guatemala. In fact, soon you will have 4G connectivity …
Green Coffee Berries
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Baya or berry. That’s right coffee berries is the proper term because, well, coffee are …
Capturing The Arch of Santa Catalina
El Arco de Santa Catalina has become the identifying landmark of La Antigua Guatemala. Do you know what the original purpose of …
Guatemalan Cookies: Champurradas
Champurrada is the closest thing to cookies for everyone. They are sweet, tasty, crunchy and inexpensive. Champurradas are flat sweet bread found …
Salty or Sweet Granizadas?
Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word or the day: Granizadas, that’s shaved ice. Granizadas are just as popular as helados, ice cream, in …
Portraits of Strangers: The Modern Traveler
Have iPad, Will Travel! I imagine only few of you will understand the meaning of the statement above. Now, can you guess …
Mi Antigua Es Color
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Etiqueta for tag and hashtag. We now live in a hashtag world or should I …
Guatemalan Fruits: Banana passionfruit
I wonder how many variations of the passion fruit we have in Guatemala. Let’s count the obvious ones: Granadilla, Chirimoya, Maracuyá, and …
Guatemalan Beans and Maize Stand at the Mercado, Antigua Guatemala
We are what we eat. So Guatemalans are made from a big proportion of maize, beans, fruits and vegetables. Of course, beans …