My Favoritist City in the World!
After waiting on our shuttle to Antigua for over an hour and a half, we finally arrived in Antigua, Guatemala on Friday evening. We were sent off from Guatemala City with a huge thunderstorm. The city really didn't want us to leave for some reason I guess.
When we got here we were taken to a hotel that costs 35Q a night which is about $4.70. It was certainly a no-frills hotel with a single shared bathroom between all three rooms the hotel had to offer. We dropped all our stuff off on the bed and started walking around town.
Antigua is by far my favorite city I have ever been to. Life here is so chill. It's a tiny little town that you can traverse by foot in about 45 minutes. There was a law passed in the 1700's that prevented anyone from changing the look of their buildings. Walking the streets here is a little like stepping back in time with cobblestone streets and some beautiful architecture styled to centuries ago.
There are a lot of people here from all over the world. Which means lots of different languages. Which is probably one of the reasons why it's my favoritiest city in the world. However, there are many more little towns to discover on our journey around the world. Antigua may soon be debunked by another little town in Europe or Iceland. Who knows.
William and I are taking a week of Spanish classes here. We will be staying with a Guatemalan family starting tonight. It will no doubt be like what I have always called the best two weeks of my life. That is, the first time I came to Antigua to study Spanish in 2005. I did not know a lick of Spanish then. Now I'm conversational and am working on broadening my speaking abilities so that I don't have to talk about things the same way every time.
I haven't gotten online since we got here until now. I would have had internet access yesterday, but I have learned that before you buy a drink at a coffee place that has "Free WiFi" you need to aks them if their internet is even working. It wasn't. And I didn't find that out until I had already spent the rest of my day's budget on the drink.
Our next podcast comes out tomorrow. It includes our encounter with Goat Man and our adventure down into the ghetto of Zone 18. If all goes as planed and I am able to upload about 200MB of data with this sketchy internet, then it should be up by tomorrow afternoon.