That’s right, we can be a paparazzi mob during the Antigua Photo Walks that I lead around town whenever we encounter a quinceañera or a bride strolling through the streets of Antigua Guatemala. That’s exactly what happened this morning when for a few moments we made this innocent quinceañera quite important by having more than … Read more
Guatemala moves forward and Antigua Guatemala will be the place that illuminates that hope, because we all are going to work together! — Susana Asensio, Mayor of Antigua Guatemala. Guatemala va para adelante y La Antigua va ser el lugar que ilumine esa esperanza, porqué vamos a trabajar todos juntos. — Alcaldesa Susana Asensio, Antigua … Read more
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Choripán for Argentine sausage sandwich. There’s a little bistro in the zaguán of Casa del Arco, right across from Campero that sells Argentine sandwiches, including the choripan, which is to say the least, the simplest sandwich one can make. The choripan is made with a French baguette, … Read more
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Emparedado or sandwich. Believe it or not, roast beef sandwiches are not difficult to find in La Antigua Guatemala. Easily I can think of three or more places when one can have a delicious roast beef sandwich such as Sabe Rico, Epicure and Doña Luisa. This is … Read more
We continue our Antigua Sandwich Week mini series with an open face sandwich: the Guatemalan take on eggs benedict includes dices of avocado and tomato over two slices of artisan home-made whole wheat bread, well at least the version sold at Café Barista in Antigua Guatemala. This eggs benedict breakfast also includes orange juice and … Read more
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Hamburguesa or burger. I guess a hamburger is a kind of sandwich right. By the way, we use the word sandwich quite often in Spanish, although the proper word should be emparedado. In Guatemala, we often just call them panes, such pan con pollo or pan … Read more
Licuados or smoothies are the most popular beverage after atoles, of course. The price can range a lot depending where you get them from, so make sure you shop around. If you want to get absolute lowest price, head over the mercado where you can get licuados and jugos, juices, from Q5/$0.60 to Q10/$1.125 depending … Read more
Poco a poco, slowly, all the traditional and typical tiendas and tienditas, borough convenience stores, have been bought and turned into abarroterías de occidente, that’s what call them, although there is no set name, only a set style. What does a tienda de occidente, western highland store, look like? Well, first of all, they are … Read more
Imagine that now you can follow the location updates of the cotton candy vendors on Periscope and Twitter. No more should you go to sleep craving sweet fairy floss. Honest, what we need is Antigua App with instant updates for the current location of whatever street food vendor you need. Can anyone tell me how … Read more
Rojo Santo Domingo is another popular color from the Antigua Guatemala palette. Even more so than Rojo Concepción. Another rojo shade you see all over town is the “no parking zone” red, although this is not an official colonial palette color. Can you guess where was this photograph taken?
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Celeste or sky blue. Celeste comes from cielo, sky. Celaje is another word that comes from cielo. If you really want to dominate the nuances of the second most often spoken language in the world after Chinese, better take some Spanish classes at Máximo Nivel Intercultural Center … Read more
The camera is a master key! Below I will explain this statement… read on. Sunday night Fuego volcano offered an uninterrupted show of eruptions, pyroclastic flows, and lava rivers as well as constant vibrations and roaring. By Monday morning the booms and vibrations have almost disappeared, but we still witnessed many eruptions and pyroclastic flows. … Read more
What better way to start the new year than hanging out with friends at parque central of La Antigua Guatemala; sharing a piece of cake from Café Condesa, some hot coffee and chatting and catching up. This is much better than «likes» and «comments» on Facebook or Twitter, don’t you agree? BECOME A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER: … Read more
One more reason to visit Antigua Guatemala during the dry season: The golden light. This beautiful golden light is the perfect ingredient for the artistic Antigua Photo Session I am launching in 2016. If you are interested in having a romantic photo session with your girlfriend or family on the streets of Antigua Guatemala or … Read more
Once again we jump-start the new year with some portraits of people from Antigua Guatemala. In this case, it is a portrait of the old grandma selling Guatemalan sweeten nuts such as pepitoria [roasted pumpkin seeds], ajonjolí [sesame seeds], manías [peanuts], et cetera mixed with the sweet molasses from the cooked sugar cane juice. If … Read more