Bread delivery in Antigua Guatemala

What a wonderful decoration piece for a bakery, don’t you think? This vintage bicycle with its bread baskets hangs at the entrance of the new Antigua Guatemala branch of the San Martín bakery and restaurant. Boy, this place is packed. If you didn’t know, you would think there were not bakeries/restaurants prior to San Martín … Read more

Buying the Afternoon Delivery Guatemalan Bread

Somethings are changing in the Guatemalan lifestyle. Others, luckily, remain the same, like hot-just-out-of-the-oven bread delivery in the rainy afternoons in La Antigua Guatemala. Here we see an indigenous woman purchasing some pan frances and sweet bread to prepare the afternoon “refa” (short for refacción or snack break), the only refacción some people got in … Read more