
Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
¡No pongas todos los huevos en una canasta! Oh the wisdom of idioms do not escape the Guatemalan typical small business owner. …
¡No pongas todos los huevos en una canasta! Oh the wisdom of idioms do not escape the Guatemalan typical small business owner. …
Guatemala is a country of Desaparecidos (disappeared) and La Antigua Guatemala is not an exception. These colorful and friendly street vendors and …
It is sad and tragic that in Guatemala some people have to take their body guards with them everywhere they go. :-(
Okay, enough I say; it’s been way too long since I gave away free wallpapers; since December 23, 2010 to be exact, …
Normally the Christmas light decorations are put up on Parque Central before the Burning of the Devil on the first week of …
Guatemalan fresh milk home delivery. It doesn’t get any fresher than this! How much does cost a drawn-on-the-spot glass of milk? The …
Well, it was only a matter of time and natural that someone in La Antigua Guatemala would try to make a coffee …
I have honestly tried not put as many Cuaresma/Lent and Semana Santa/Holy Week photos here. I could, in theory, have a Lent/Holy …
Guatemala is a gun-crazy country. Everywhere you look there are men with guns. There are even signs forbidding to carry the naked …
When you go to Héctor’s restaurant you are surely getting the freshest al dente fettucini pasta in La Antigua Guatemala. I chose …
The classic image of the old man with his “chiribisco” broom sweeping parks and streets of La Antigua Guatemala is vanishing. The …
I am sure this is the first time many of you see a milk delivery service like the one we have in …
There’s got to be as many salsa dancing schools in La Antigua Guatemala as there are Spanish-language schools. Unlike, the online Spanish …
Here is one more entry for the Only in LAG. Leave it to the creative people of La Antigua Guatemala to produce …
I believe the Muni should begin posting these signs all over town. Let licuado lovers be aware!
There are so many things that could be said about this photograph of two men, both in soldiers uniforms, even if one …
Surely you remember the photo of Clamping the automobiles on the No parking zone, right? Or how about the story of two …
Every afternoon, the homeless man above walks slowly towards this corner house in Antigua Guatemala, one block away from the Parque Central, …
One of favorite sections of the Los Angeles Times used to be Only in LA and I believe that when I started …
No Food, No Cameras, No Guns, No Backpackers and No Private Guards inside, the sign reads. Only in Guatemala you can find this kind of signs (I think). Guns are a big trouble, you know; people do crazy things with them and not only in Guatemala; naked guns are worn in the belts like cellphones or keychains; even banks and offices have an unusual piece of furniture to deposit customers’ guns at the entrance. Certainly Guatemala is not the only gun-crazy country in the world, nevertheless, it sad to see signs like the one above, captured at Angelina’s Doorway.
My condolences to the families and friends of the students who lost their lives yesterday in Illinois. :-(