It’s so interesting to see so many old men still very active on their bicycles. either vintage bicycles or modern two-wheelers as you can see in this picture. Perhaps, it is bicycles the reason why so many elders are still quite active and mobile in Antigua Guatemala, don’t you think? By the way, take a … Read more
Bicicles has to be the most popular means of transportation of people in and around Antigua Guatemala. People use bicycles to go to work or to work, to run errands, to play, to have fun, to tour the colonial city and villages, as publicity gimmicks, to ride with the family on the weekends, and to … Read more
This is quite possibly the best description I have ever read about La Antigua Guatemala and it comes from the pen of Adrian Anthony Gill, better know by his nom de guerre AA Gill. Today it’s a miraculously beautiful, crumbly Spanish colonial town. Sometimes neglect is the best thing that can happen to a place. … Read more
Surely enough, riding bicycles is quite possibly one of the best ways to get to see all of Antigua Guatemala and its villages. Bicycle tours is probably even better because you have a guide that can provide interesting or hard to find information. Have you taken any bike tours during your visits to Guatemala?
The news that his grandmother had come to visit the family reached Chepe as he was getting out of school; his sister Nancy just let it straight out, “vos Chepe, fijate que vino la abuelita!” and without realizing it Chepe mounted his bicycle and starting riding as fast as he could to see his grandmother … Read more