Sabado (Saturday)....a cruzy start and pack up Maya for a trip to Antigua.
Juan took us out of town to make sure we didn’t nic anything on the way out, we rode together until his turning point that waved goodbyes from there.
Stopping along the way we took in the sights, this was one stop on a tall bridge, looking straight down at the river.
We continued on our merry way and turned off to the road that Julio (Guaterider) had recommended, it started off loaded with potholes and washouts, the road then improved very quickly into world class motogp circuit roading then just as quick dropped off onto shingle with rolly rocks.
Road race quality road
Then straight onto rocky stuff
We continued along the road through a few villages getting up to great heights within fog, it was a beautiful road and so much better than the main road fitting chicken buses and trucks for space.
A few wee interesting features carved into the lime walls
Banos (toilet) stop and drink of water at the top
We eventually made our way down a small rutted shingle road/track toward Antigua making good time, so good we arrived nearly two hours earlier in fact.
We waited for Julio and Luisa to arrive back from Guatemala City and we had made plans to meet outside the cathedral ..... well with celebrations on we could not get near it so plan B was hatched.
Maya was creating a bit of interest with some locals
After some toing and froing (and Julio having a comfort stop) we all met up and followed Julio and Luisa back to Guatecasa where Maya was allowed to sleep under cover with a BMW R1200GSA.
Julio is a cook and a half so treated us to some home cooking, this was very very nice indeed.
The is Julios "I hate frijoles" (black beans) look
The following morning Julio and I went for a local hoon taking in views around Antigua before meeting the girls for breakfast. (no frijoles
)The two other girls playing well together.
On returning from breakfast we stripped down Maya and started replacing all the bits and pieces that had failed, Julio had kindly taken delivery of a large box of stuff for us which was simply outstanding and a huge help.
On completion of the repairs we had another Julio home-cooked tea, this time we were armed with two bottles of Chilean red wine we bought earlier in the day to complement the chefs cooking.
Larfs and chats were had .... good times.
Next morning Julio took us to the Macadamia farm for breakfast for panqueque (pancakes), this was also outstanding and extremely nice.
The macadamia desheller
Macadamias in shell
The result
Ellen and I then spent the afternoon in town getting stuff sorted and enjoyed a superb Antiguan sunny day with the Volcano not only peeking from behind the cloud but preforming a full frontal !!!!
Next day was organised with Richard Chang picking us up from Julios and leading us astray to Guatemala City, I really wanted to see the Guatemalan sinkhole but they had filled it in.
With our final night we yet again had red wine, chats and Julios famous home cooking, A very nice way to finish.
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