Well, here's entry number one in my travels. Arrived in Guatemala city airport after an 8 hour flight from Heathrow into JFK, and then, after a 6hr wait, finally left at 3am! Argh!!!! Believe me, that was knackering! Got into Guat City at 6am and the first things that you notice are *a) the brightly painted houses below *b) the sun breaking through the clouds as you're descend in a myriad of pastel colours and *c) the volcanos ringing the city - many are extinct and dormant but there are the odd couple that are smoking After landing, and meeting up with a man called Leonel who was to take me to Antigua, I took me quite a while to work out which side of the road we were meant to be driving on - in
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