a bittersweet good bye to Keith and Amber tonight….leaving in a day or two for Texas and home…two very sweet people who’ve graced this town and their passage will be missed….
we lose JT and then Penelope and now this…ah, the bar business in a resort town and the season is over…various people dropped in/by to say ‘hi’ and ‘bye’…DM and rusty sidekick, Emma the Delicious, folks from Reilly’s…Ignacio and his new duo of Aniet and Steven…great music! unlike his previous repertoire and the flute/keyboard combination is cranking out a whole new feeling…hey, I like it…so what, you say? so what, indeed…re the new coffee cafe cum whiskey bar coming to that location…they’re saying that its going to be structured as a ‘non profit’ business….that shouldn’t be a problem as most of the new businesses in this town are already in that position: not on purpose, perhaps…well, maybe Sangre…looks like they’re putting in a bar in the second room of what used to be the gift shop, Estrella…can’t be a bad move, since the existing bar is waaaay in the back, out of sight and out of mind…the addition of the plasma TV screens and the ‘all you can swill for 50q’ hasn’t worked…I’ll say it again…pay people 50 q to come and drink up….create a buzz and a following of Antigua’s mighty corps of guzzlers, get some bodies in there so the place doesn’t look like a fucking ghost town day and night…the new concept of serving breakfast ain’t workin’…Caffe Bourbon is the only place that seems to be doing a breakfast trade and even that is minimal
house calls
….Chez C…the pizza gig ain’t workin’, the nightly room rental isn’t and now they’re advertising monthly rates for apartments…you know, if room service was included and if there were house calls by one of the nearby spas…for those late night ‘aches and pain’s…’tell me where it hurts, baby’….oooh, right there…there’s a concept waiting to be unveiled…unfolded? hey…you think up something better….so, the bad sangria awaits at Panza Verde tomorrow night…the price is right but…
Our Man in Antigua 
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