August 2009

Jardín Antigüeño: Hortensias

Sometimes you live so fast that before you know it, life is over. Life is not a race that you want to …

In La Antigua Guatemala we are so lucky to have plenty of free culture. The Festival Internacional de Jazz en Antigua and …

I pass by Tanque de la Unión at least twice a day. Lucky me. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that …

What kind of treasures would you keep in a antique chest like the above? I would keep my treasured memories. 😉

It seems like this corner is good for the sale of exotic flowers, such as heliconias. Last time I reported on the sale …

It doesn’t matter how many times I see Volcán de Fuego erupting, I can never get tired of it or get accustomed. …

The world-famous Guatemalan apron is going places, you know. Just like you can find mothers and daughters selling gabachas, aprons, on any …

Market day in La Antigua Guatemala is much more than just getting your weekly produce or enjoying a photo moment of local …

When we talk about antique items to be used as decoration for Spanish colonial architecture we don’t necessarily mean mint contidion things. …

Rust is yet another desirable aspect of antique decoration elements for colonial houses. Sometimes the artisans and blacksmith artists speed up the …

In the next three days, I will show you some antique decoration elements that I found at ElCurandero.Com offices. Also, I will …

Back in January Rudy marked his 1000th post with a pic of pacaya cooked in egg batter and duly polled readers for …

Certainly some of you can help us determine the differences between chuchos and chuchitos, which were both mentioned yesterday in Guy Howard’s …

Not a farol left over from last year’s posadas. Nor indeed a house of ill repute, except perhaps with regards to the …

I can remember everything about this Antigua moment except exactly where it is. All the recent discussion about water reminded me of …