Blogs from San Marcos La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean - page 3

Deze nacht niet goed geslapen! Denk dat er vlooien of een of ander beest in mijn bed zat, want sta vol met beten .. en beten jeuken .. en als beten jeuken .. dan moet je krabben! Nu dat eindelijk al mijn muggenbeten en blijnen bijna verdwenen zijn, sta ik dus vol met beten van iets anders. Tof tof .. Had er dus ook geen probleem mee met op te staan om om 8u de yoga-les mee te volgen. Was een lesje van 2 uur .. maar was me niet echt bevallen. Was vandaag precies men dag niet om mij in allemaal posities te wringen, lenig te wezen en op men ademhaling te letten. Dus no more yoga for me. Besloten om nog nachtje meer te blijven .. maar eerst boot nemen naar ander stadje aan ... read more

After a gruelling morning lying by the pool at the gorgeous Hotel Atitlan, Lucy and I took one of the ¨lanchas¨, a little fibreglass boat, over the lake to San Marcos. The trip over allowed us excellent views of a number of other little villages at the lake edge, all small sleepy villages, some with surprisingly large and lovely houses built into the hillsides. I suspect mostly owned by holidaying Americans. Lucy befriended one such lady on the boat, who told her that on various spots on the lake there are some huge mansions. One of which is apparently owned by the man who owns all the department stores in Guatemala City. He choppers down to the lake, but interestingly is also required to chopper to work in Guat. City, as he has so much money ... read more

So I finnished school the other day and got my diploma. Another piece of paper i´ve recieved from some school that will do absolutely nothing for me. I could wallpaper my room with these. That´s not entirely true...my spanish is much better than when I first got here. Now I at least have some idea what the hell is going on. The last few days have been awsome. Met some really amazing Americans (can you believe that) and we had quite the piss-up my last night in Antigua. It also happened to be one of the American´s birthday so we went for a great dinner and some serious drinking. Red wine is a truly amazing and dangerous thing. On our way home from the bar the police stopped us on the street and started searching ... read more

We came back to Guatemala in the morning of the 4th of June (my birthday!). Our first thought was to stay in San Pedro for a couple of months but that was impossible. Our home was in San Marcos and so where the friends. I write more about this time later. Now months have passed and I have been in Sweden as well for 1 month visiting family and friends. While we where there Chris moved in to a house that belongs to a Swedish lady, Kristina, that I know from last time I was living here. The house has very high standard from what we are used to in Guatemala. But it feels necessary to be living like this now with Julian. This first blog I just wanna post for you to see how we ... read more

We left you just before we went into silence over a month ago. We finally have some time to update you on what has been happening. The retreat was a life changing experience for both of us. The five days of silence was successful. It is interesting when you don't talk to your partner for 5 days and simply observe their behaviour. We had a cricket invasion in our cabin, which would begin every night as Brendan hopped in to bed, I must admit I let out a few giggles as I watched him try to enforce the rule of silence on to the jungle crickets of Guatemala. His agility was amazing , all that yoga must have paid off! We were enjoying our time so much that we extended our stay. Brendan went on to ... read more