A Day in Antigua

Started my day at 5am watching Senors Nadal and Federa on the sat TV, sipping a hot cuppa (I have a coffee maker in my room). Breakfast at 7am was french toast with maple syrup. Every meal has been different- breakfasts can be pancakes, omelettes, beans, fruit ....of course lots of coffee.
 I then watched my friend Linda arrange flowers. Linda is a teacher from Toronto who comes here every year for horse riding and Spanish lessons. On Fridays she goes to the market at 6am and brings back flowers to make the house where we all share our meals look beautiful!

I am improving with my Spanish lessons and try to do 2 hours homework each morning, plus my 2 hour lesson in the afternoon.

I came up to the Central Park this morning to get my emails and spoke to a guy from Seattle and 3 young boys who were polishing his shoes. I took photos and so will get one printed for each and see if I can find the young hombres later around the park. Shoe cleaning is very popular here as most men wear leather shoes.

 Here are Carlos, Guillermo and Daniel at work. David is from Seattle and brings groups of teenagers here each year to assist with indigenous programs

 My friends Linda and Caroline starting work on the flowers.

Arranging the flowers in vases. Fresh flowers are huge here in every home, restaurant, hotel- the flower market is breathtaking. 

 These lovely ladies were in the park early to catch the touristos

 This is the old church next to where I am living called San Jose de Viejo.

At night they have weddings and  receptions inside the church and decorate it beautifully.

 Found this garden yesterday while expolorong with Linda.

This afternoon I`m having my first salsa lesson with Martin a flashy young dude who does New York style dancing so we will see how that goes! I have also started going to the gym as running on the treadmill is so much better than on these cobblestoned-streets. They had a marathon here last week - don't know how they did it!