Our Man in Antigua

coming this Thursday, the first anniversary of Reilly’s/La Esquina…no, I don’t know what time it starts but probably after dark…and what happened with the Sunday Pig Roasts? it went from every Sunday to once a month and now? tis kinda like the Pub Quiz’…they’ve take a dive in attendance, notably at Ocelot where there used to be at least four teams of four: and now, last Sunday a 2 man team won..
Manuela, once a strong part of Que Pasa, now being the manager for Monica’s Jungle Party. As I said to her, good people are rare in this town…especially in the ‘service industry’..and yes, the tennis courts at Club Antiguena, my neighbor, have been resurfaced..and there’s a new manager. It seems that the last manager managed to abscond/skim/slip away with some $$$..and why, again, do a couple of places continue to offer breakfast? the Jardin Bavaria and Los Tres Tiempos come to mind…and late/great Antigua Bus Tour is about to reincarnate..different starting place and that’s all they said..kinda like the Segue Way biz, located up north, almost to the Calle Ancha aka Joco…I don’t ‘get’ their business model, frankly (Scarlette)
and it’s looking more and more likely that the gringo population here is about to expand…Hogan/lady and Nazi John, to be exact.
And yes, another ‘expedition’ is taking shape, after the cluster f… of july…this time, Zacapa, of which my guide book has nothing to say..in search of the wily tourmaline and anything else that’s photo-worthy. A lady friend, who shall remain nameless, has family there..maybe she’ll be able to shed some light/tell me something…and so, it’s a perfectly beautiful Sunday in Antigua..some tasty women, marimba music and art in the park. When will the canicula stop? who cares? the weather is perfect and if we get rain, we get rain..