Christmas Eve Fireworks and Firecrackers in Antigua Guatemala

The burning of fireworks and firecrackers for Christmas Eve is less than for New Year’s Eve, but impressive nonetheless, especially when you consider people all over are burning pólvora [fireworks powder]. Here are two images showing the burning of fireworks in the village of San Pedro Las Huertas. There’s the audio again so you can … Read more

Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad!

In Antigua Guatemala we woke up to this sunny and gorgeous panoramic vista of the volcanoes Agua, Fuego and Acatenago with a comfortable temperate 16ºC/61ºF temperature. Would you like to have this weather every day for Winter? if so, then come on down to Antigua Guatemala where we promise you a daily dose of sunshine … Read more

The War of the Worlds

Play this song before continuing: We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man’s, and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost … Read more