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Winter is coming this week to Antigua Guatemala

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And this is what Winter feels like in Antigua Guatemala: Freezing cold temperatures of about 10ºC/50ºF for about two hours between 6am and 8am [my solution, don’t get up before 8am] and then the warm sunshine brings us back to 22ºC/72ºF for most of the day, except after lunch when we might even reach 25ºC/77ºF. … Read more

Sunsets in Antigua Guatemala During the Dry Season

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Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Crepúsculo or twilight. Once again we are experiencing some sunset clouds, celajes pues, as we are supposed to during the dry season. By the way, I don’t know if you have heard me rave about the dry season, the best time to come to Guatemala. As I … Read more

Beautiful Light and Sunsets in Antigua Guatemala

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I am enamoured with the quality and quantity of light during the dry season. In my opinion, the light and cold winds are what makes the dry season around Antigua Guatemala such a special time to spend in Guatemala. If I ever leave Guatemala again, I would try to come back as often as possible … Read more

Magical Sunsets in Antigua Guatemala

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Well, believe it or not, the information about the ingredients of the magical light is available in the long and deep archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto, nearly seven years of daily entries now. Sunsets in Antigua Guatemala are very special and even more so when you watch them from roof-top cafe or bar. Sunset’s warm light falls … Read more

Enjoying the Sunset in Ciudad Vieja

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Slowly, but surely we progress in our own unique way. Just before we leave Ciudad Vieja, I wanted to share with a follow up post to Having Ice Cream in Antigua Guatemala where I tried to explain that despite the crime and violence that is shown in the news, most people in our Latin America … Read more

Just a sunset

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There is something about how the sun rises and sets that gets people marveled, or in some kind of magical admiration to what nature shows us. On this past Tuesday I was about to meet some friends, and I began seeing what promised to be a beautiful sunset. Someone on the street said, it is … Read more

Antigua’s Style Lamp Silhouette

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I just love the dry season that goes from late October to late April in Guatemala, also known in Guatemala as Summer even though it actually spans part of Fall, the entire Winter and half of the Spring season. Go Figure! The weather is wonderfully cool, literally and figuratively. There is no rain. The sky … Read more