Sem você nem tristeza teremos Pra nos lamentar Sem você nem morrer de saudade Nem mesmo chorar Pois não há chorar E o amor? O amor desaparecerá. E o amor? Da lembrança ninguém nem se lembrará E o amor? Se perder ninguém mais vai no olhar E o amor? Palavra vazia ninguém mais namorará Namorará … Read more
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love – The Blues Brothers by Blues Brothers Soundtrack on Grooveshark In Guatemala Valentine’s Day has a much wider meaning since Día del cariño, Day of affection or caring, is about celebrating all the different manifestations of love and caring. Let the Blues Brothers bring the message of Día del cariño … Read more
How many people can you fit inside a bus? The chicken bus Guinness World Record of how many people you can fit in a bus was broken today at Jocotenango, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala with 221 people inside the chicken bus, two chickens and lots of Gallos (beer). The previous record of 209 people was held by … Read more
This photos was taken on the outskirts of Volcán de Agua where many people have milpas and orchards. Besides the obvious corn plantations, the campesinos also grow rábano (radish), yuca (cassava), camote (sweet potato) and yerbas (herbs). As explained before in the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto, the term milpa refers normally to a maize field, but … Read more
While most people have food for lunch, other prefer to have love. Just take a look at the two couples in the background of the picture above. By the way, this is a follow up to Lunch Hour at San Sebastián Park.
Since Antigua Guatemala is the tourism capital for Central America, it’s quite common to see tourists, local and foreign, window shopping for something eat. What I’ve seen that works and brings people in are photo menus with combos which include everything. I guess tourists who are unfamiliar with the Guatemalan gastronomy can point their finger … Read more
I don’t normally go by Parque San Sebastián, located on the northwest side of Antigua Guatemala, especially at lunch hour, so I was surprised to see how many people were having lunch at the park. Of course, wherever there are people eating on a public space, there will be chuchos, street dogs, waiting for whatever … Read more
Last week, Guatemalan blogger Iván Mendoza sent me a link to the article Street Photography: The Capture vs. The Pose; an interesting post which tries to define the difference between posed and captured photographs. Below I quote a couple statements from the article to give you an idea, but I must certainly encourage to read … Read more
If we are what we eat, then this is what Guatemalans are made of. The vegetables above the most often found in the Guatemalan diet. How many of these vegetable are part of the diet where you live? Si somos lo que comemos, entonces los guatemaltecos estamos hechos de estas verduras, las cuales son las … Read more
Of course the parking problems get aggravated when there are events in Antigua Guatemala and thousands of people are expected to arrive. Then, any available spaces becomes a temporary parking lots. With this entry we finish the mini series about the parking problems of Antigua Guatemala. Let me know your thoughts about it.
One of the reason for why most of streets in Antigua Guatemala are one-way is because once the parking areas are occupied the streets are too narrow. This is even true of the roads around La Antigua as you can see in the picture above where you can barely fit two buses each going on … Read more
Parking spaces or rather the lack of parking spaces is among the most challenging problems that Antigua Guatemala is facing right now. Antigua spends millions of quetzales each year to keep up the cobblestoned streets which were not designed for motorized vehicles like automobiles, trucks and buses when first implemented over 500 years ago. Heck, … Read more
These news may come as total shock to some of you, but I figure today is as good day as any to let you know that because of Antigua Guatemala’s preservation and protection laws there can not be parking meters. Believe me that’s a good thing. However the municipal government may not agree with me … Read more
Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. —Mark Twain Once again Antigua Daily Photo is participating on the theme day organized by … Read more