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Yes, I know, always been full of it...but now full of espanol...hey, this is an ordinary keyboard...@ is where it should be but no n with the bizzo!...so greetings from Antigua, the city in Guatemalam not the other one...where were we?..Lake Atitlan the huge caldera of the old volcano..320 m deep, stayed at Panajachel on the shores...lots of touristas, shop/stalls all the color of the Mayan textiles, carvings, bags, bits and bobs,,you know...<br />

Full of It...

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 22:14:53

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on 3 sides of the property with the courtyard/garden and ancient concrete cast wash ing trough bizzo, its a large reservoir and in one corner a separate lttle trough, sloping and corrugated, on the side a circular hole that takes the circular clothes soap...so cute...the mama bashes a few things in there in the morning but right behind is the new, you-beaut machine...and a drying machins that runs all day with sheets and towells !!...aarrrggghhhh!
but its all nice....

Now I'm getting hungry again...maybe the Bagel Barn omg, yes theres a lovely little place met Nicole the owner the other night at No Se, I ate there the other day...fresh toasted bagel with tomato, mozarella, basil...this is getting a bit too unauthentic...justified tho' coz later today we're off to the coast, roughing it in plapas and shacks, then to more privation in El Sal..so we can justify a few days of lux here.

I did 4 hours of espanol; Friday and 4 more Sat morning...not enough of course but great boost to my gradually extending linguality...so where did that come from?

Out for a bit of a fang yesterday while El Ted climbed the mountain, he went on an overnighter up the volcano...faarck, huge hike and I'm not at all fazed that I passed up on that op......anyway, coming back I saw this topiarist at work,,,riding a pretty substantial horse, big spanish saddle, he had the horse walking right up against the hedgerow, and he was slashing it with an industrial sized machete!

one poofteenth of the display in one BIG storecarving great swathes, and moving along pretty quick, horse obviously knowing when not to swish his tail or turn the head!..and cutting this foliage back to an abso straight wall...just could't stop and get a pic as it was...crikey, I don't know but there's often a problema with stopping when the right scene is there...like my head is full of snaps and scenes, a million images of fantastic things, I just wish I could do more justice to all the amazing things I've seen....then again, you'd all be cancelling your subscriptions to my blog!

Now I'll try and get some photos up...the reason you can't always big them is that they're jpegged as I have a file size, time and blog capacity limits!..sorry, but you'll just have to buy the book hehehe.

Welcome to the gang at Lefty's..as I said you'll have to get El Croc to translate...where HE can understand!...
Amd there was something about these military strength fireworks...fcuking rockets that explode at about 40 metres up and blow the eardrums...and last night, staggering home from No Se ..a couple of kids very surreptiously crouched behind a parked car...hmmmm, just what are they up to..then...ker BANG,BANG, BANG...a string of little (hardly!) crackers, you know the ones, in the red paper, original chinese death-crackers...faarrccckkk...just what you need on the way home...subsequently got disorioed and walked about 30 kms around in circles before finding the donga...did I tell you how hard it is to get around at night?..everything looks the same!..oh man..anyway, pix time...hasta luego
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