or meringue….notice that there’s a lot of new ‘salsa’ action, oddly coinciding with the annual infuc..no, influx of spanish school babes? even Red’s Sports Bar…maybe salsa counts as a ‘contact sport’
‘heard yesterday that Guatemala’s tourist industry reports that 73% of the incoming hordes are Christian-based, coming down to save the pagan babies(my interpretation), which leaves X percentage for the back-packers, spanish schoolers, the odd(and they dress that way)cruise-shippers…thus changing the $$$ of Antigua’s tourist biz….fuggedabout the bar/food biz unless the weekenders bring $..fuggedabout the high end shops and anything more expensive than a T-shirt or a coffee mug…how long will this continue? INGUAT blew the 2012 ‘end of the world and come see Tikal’ concept but then again INGUAT seems to only good for taking $ and not using it for promotions…sad, in a way…no, sad in every way…
another story heard this morning re: the tuk-tuk situation in Joco…another driver killed, three others shot…it’s all about extortion and for a 1000q a month they get to keep on keepin’ on…supposedly their hours of operation have been curtailed to 6am-6pm.
‘and the new deli, “pan y fantasy’ or such…the sign is hard to decipher…:GREAT!’….better than Deliciosa(same location on 3rd calle) and any deli that stocks Stagg’s Chili, Jack Daniels and Coppola wine can’t be all that bad…a little nook for eating, a small bar and what looked like a leg of lamb being delivered..they be goin’ head to head with Epicure, but with better selections…if I didn’t have a leftover frozen batch of personal chili, I’d popped for the 42q can of Stagg’s..well worth a look see…
Jason/Shaun have a great idea, unfolding…nope, can’t talk yet but it’s truly killer, with nothing like it in town…tonight? go by Sobremesa after six and check out their new bar (today is their birthday) and then Angie Angie’s for Nelson’s last gig here until October…Wayne Hooper on vocals, Willie Gomez, guitar, Adan the Cuban on piano, Nelson on kazoo…’just kidding…you know that…wait! how about a local gringo band of kazooers for Semana Santa? dress up like the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence(SF wackos) and available for other parades…cheers again to Rich Neel for opening the world of F1/F3 racing to me…now, the fumes of racing fuel seem to have created an idea about renting go-karts/the track and….ask him, not me…it’s his idea(i’ve signed off on it)
the great/short-lived Original Antigua Bus Tour that crashed 3 months into its start? sold…let’s hope they crank it up again, as it was a good thing for Antigua..and god knows, that stuff is in very short supply…I was going to go off on a political rant/tangent re: appointed/elected officials and their personal “Five Year Plans” for enrichment but….why? cynicism reared its ugly head, once again…maybe hearing Adan/Nelson et al later will push this mr.cranky pants stuff away for a while…
Our Man in Antigua 
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