Sights of Our Times — White Flags: Job Wanted
Not everyone waving a white flag is asking for food or economic assistance to feed their family. Some people waving a white …
Pandemic Sights: Garbage Collection
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Basura for either trash, garbage or rubbish, depending on which side of the …
Convenience Corner Store in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Tienda for convenience store. Tiendas are so common in Latin America and Antigua …
Sights of Our Times — Food Delivery Apps
In Guatemala restaurant food is delivered in motorcycles. Even the food delivery apps use motorcycle drivers with color brand backpacks. Today I …
New Year, New Job in the Antigua Guatemala’s Municipality
What a sight, hundreds of people in queue on Sunday morning waiting to be hired by Antigua Guatemala’s leaving municipal administration. Is …
Guatemalan flags on sale
Starting at the end of August, the ambulant flag vendors hit the streets with every flag size and shade of blue to …
The Omni-Present Ambulant Tortilla Vendors
Tortillas los tres tiempos, tortillas for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or a toda hora, or all the time, tortillas are sold out …
Enjoy Ice Cream Any Time of the Year in Antigua Guatemala
As you may already know, Invierno in Guatemala happens to fall mostly during Summer with a little bit of Spring and Autumn. …
The Benefits of Tiendas
One of the benefits of having convenience stores, or tiendas as we call them here, it is fact that if you need …
Typical Tienda de Occidente in Antigua Guatemala
Poco a poco, slowly, all the traditional and typical tiendas and tienditas, borough convenience stores, have been bought and turned into abarroterías …
What’s the deal with the chair?
HELP! Can you caption this picture and explain the street scene shown in it?
The selfie-stick has arrived to the streets of Antigua Guatemala
Believe it or not, La Antigua Guatemala is another fallen city under the spell of narcissists who now have access to very …
Traditional Guatemalan Ice Cream Carts Refuse to Disappear
Even though modern ice cream carts are found all over Guatemala, these traditional ice cream carts are still quite present, especially around …
Guns on the Streets of Guatemala
I do’t believe that more guns on the streets make a place safer. For instance, more guns on the streets of the …
Taking care of the nursery
Guatemalans take any space available from a zaguán [entryway or lobby] to a corridor or simply a window to turn it into …
Photos of Halloween in Antigua Guatemala
Halloween in Antigua Guatemala is becoming increasingly popular, especially at bars and restaurants where often costume contests are held. Calle del Arco …
Typical Guatemalan Breakfast Booth
Everywhere in Guatemala you can find breakfast stalls similar to one shown above where the working class and anybody’s hungry can stop …
Colorful Guatemalan Fundraising
If you want to do street photography you have to be quick and be ready at all times because you never know …
Guatemalan Idiosyncrasies: Carwash
In Guatemala we have certain language idiosyncrasies which throw off other Spanish speakers who visit us. One such language idiosyncrasy is Carwash. …